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[Thehealthtime.com] Bird Flu (Avian Flu), What's the Treatment for Avian Flu?, Where ...: The avian flu that has affected birds and people in Asia, Europe, Africa and the Middle East, is different from the flu that many people get during the cold-weather months. Poultry ”” like chickens and turkeys ”” tend to get infected with the bird flu by migrating waterfowl (like ducks, geese, and swans), and spread it to other birds through their infected feces, saliva, or secretions.

[business advertising agency] Public Health Agency of Canada recommendations for Avian Flu ...: Where the regular Influenza A symptoms include aching muscles,sore nose, high fever and coughing, people wary of the Bird Flushould be on the watch for symptoms pinpointed in a 1997 HongKong outbreak. In that outbreak, people "developed symptoms offever, sore throat, cough and, in several of the fatal cases,severe respiratory distress secondary to viral pneumonia.Previously healthy adults and children, and some with chronicmedical conditions, were affected," according to WHO Webinformation.

[Worldwide Bird Watching] Questions and Answers About Bird Flu(avian Influenza) | Worldwide ...: The only subtype that can cause severe illness to people is Influenza A /H5N1 virus, initially it affects chickens, ducks and other birds by the process of mutation they can become highly pathogenic. Because highly pathogenic viruses can survive for long periods in tissue, water and in the environment, especially when temperatures are low is transmitted very easily in chickens and other birds through direct contact with feces and secretions from infected birds, eggs, feed, water, cages equipment, vehicles and clothing.

[Influenza Virus Mashup] [Avian Flu Diary] ACHA Spring Break Letter | Influenza Virus Mashup: For these reasons, the CDC and the American College Health Association (ACHA) continue to encourage all students, faculty and staff at universities and colleges to protect themselves against 2009 H1N1 by getting vaccinated. In the spring of 2009, we saw the spread of 2009 H1N1 result in a lot of illness following travel associated with “Spring Break.” With the 2010 “Spring Break” coming up and large numbers of students expected to travel both domestically and internationally, getting vaccinated against 2009 H1N1 influenza is especially important.

[No SubHealth] What is Avian Flu and Causes of Avian Flu | No SubHealth | How to ...: The avian flu that has affected birds and people in Asia, Europe, Africa and the Middle East, is different from the flu that many people get during the. Typical influenza in adults is characterized by the sudden onset of chills, fever, prostration, cough, and generalized aches and pains (especially in the back and legs).

[Biotechnology.co.in -] ViaGuru Health Disease Illness-Avian Bird Flu Poses Serious ...: The bird flu virus may also combine with ordinary human flu, thereby assimilating the characteristics of the disease, including its ability to infect humans. Mutation through combination with human flu can occur in the body of humans who contract the disease while being sick with human influenza or by being in contact (consumption, for example) with pigs, which serve as carrier of both kinds of flu.

[Disease Report] Understanding The Avian Bird Flu Virus And A Look Into Its History ...: New viruses keep getting formed because of genetic mutation and are named using a H number and an N number, which denote different pathogenic profiles. Some of those ones which for sure affect human populace and did so in the past are, H1N1 (Spanish flu, 1918-19) H2N2 (Asian flu, 1957-58), H3N2 (Hong Kong flu, 1968-69), etc.

[Chen Qi-The World of Micro-Organism] More on Vietnam woman tests positive for avian flu | Chen Qi-The ...: Most elderly Haitians live with family or with caretakers who are paid a few dollars a day by faraway relatives in Miami or New York or Montreal to care for a grandmother or elderly uncle in a back room. The earthquake killed at least 220,000 people in all, according to the Haitian government estimates, and especially disrupted the tissue-thin safety net that protected the elderly.

[vici blog] vici blog » Blog Archive » Roche Tamiflu: The Ultimate Weapon for ...: the nose and throat of an infected person during coughing and sneezing is enough to get prone to the disorder. Avian Flu and its Human transmission : Widely known as bird Flu, Avian influenza is an infectious disease of birds caused by .

[Jellofart] Causes & Symptoms of Swine Flu | jellofart's blog: This makes it deadlier than previous swine influenza outbreaks, and it?s the reason why many countries around the world are alarmed by the epidemic. According to the World Health Organization report, there has been one confirmed death from swine influenza in the United States, out of the 91 confirmed cases.

[vici blog] vici blog » Blog Archive » Bird Flu Virus (H5N1), Health ...: Researchers are now examining the possibility that the H5N1 virus could exchange genes with the common human flu virus. If this occurs in the case of simultaneous infections this may lead .

[Komunitas Blogger Universitas Sriwijaya] Fatal Flu | Komunitas Blogger Universitas Sriwijaya: . They are classified into subtypes on the basis of the antigenic properties of the hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA) glycoproteins expressed on the surface of the virus. Influenza A viruses are characterized by their pathogenicity, with highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) causing severe disease or death in domestic poultry. Molecular changes in the RNA genome occur through two main mechanisms: point mutation (antigenic drift) and RNA segment reassortment (antigenic shift) Point mutations cause minor changes in the antigenic character of viruses.

[Jellofart] How is the swine flu different from a regular flu? | jellofart's blog: More than half a dozen pharmaceutical companies, including Gilead Sciences Inc., Roche, GlaxoSmithKline and other companies with a stake in flu treatments and detection, have seen a rise in their shares in a matter of days, and will likely see revenue boosts if the swine flu outbreak continues to spread.

[How to Cheat Colds and Flu] Swine Flu Symptoms : How to Cheat Colds and Flu: How does swine flu spread? Flu viruses are made up of tiny particles that can be spread through droplets that come out of the nose and mouth when you cough or sneeze.

[Centurean2's Weblog] Rumsfeld Swine Flu Connection! « Centurean2's Weblog: The prospect of a bird flu outbreak may be panicking people around the globe, but it’s proving to be very good news for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other politically connected investors in Gilead Sciences, the California biotech company that owns the rights to Tamiflu, the influenza remedy that’s now the most-sought after drug in the world.

[H1N1 Virus Blog] Flying Pigs, Tamiflu and Factory Farms H1N1 « H1N1 Virus Blog: A research compilation by Ed Harris reported, ”˜According to residents, the company denied responsibility for the outbreak and attributed the cases to ”˜flu.’ However, a municipal health official stated that preliminary investigations indicated that the disease vector was a type of fly that reproduces in pig waste and that the outbreak was linked to the pig farms.’9 That would imply that the entire Swine Flu scare might have originated from the PR spin doctors of the world’s largest industrial pig factory farm operation, Smithfield Foods.

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