asian bird flu
asian bird flu
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by Dane Stanton - 2006-12-02
There is a deadly disease that has and still is sweeping nations across South East Asia. It's now beginning to be known as the Asian bird flu. So what is it and how does it affect people? Well the Asi...
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by Groshan Fabiola - 2007-01-04
1. What virus is responsible for Bird flu?There are many subtypes of influenza "A" virus, which affect in a different way poultry, causing mild or serious diseases to birds.The most lethal subtype of ...
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by Groshan Fabiola - 2007-01-10
Avian influenza is a virus infection that normally occurs in wild birds and pathologically in poultry, its forms causing mild symptoms or even death within 48 hours. It can also infect humans.Wild bir...
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by Groshan Fabiola - 2007-01-18
At first, bird flu appeared in Asia, where million of poultry was slaughtered in the attempt of stopping the virus from transmitting to other animals and humans.Scientists believe that if H5N1 virus m...
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by Groshan fabiola - 2007-02-15
In recent years there has been an outbreak of the H5N1 virus affecting birds in Asia, Europe and Africa, the mortality rates being high. Many cases of people infected have been registered but the r...
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by Groshan Fabiola - 2007-03-03
Avian Influenza first occurred in Italy, but nowdays is spread along the world.It is an infectious disease caused by type A strains of the influenza virus. All birds are supposed to be susceptible to...
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by Groshan Fabiola - 2007-03-19
Since 2003 poultry and other birds have been continuously affected by the bird flu virus. Humans also got affected and it seems that since 16 January 2007, 267 cases of human bird flu infection were r...
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by Groshan Fabiola - 2007-04-14
Of all the avian influenza viruses that are seen in both humans and birds the subtype H5N1 caused the largest number of infections in humans. This subtype leaded to severe diseases and even death. Mor...
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by Groshan Fabiola - 2007-04-19
Avian influenza is a problem that affects in most of the cases the birds. This type of infection is caused by the bird flu viruses also called avian influenza viruses. These viruses are common among b...
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by Groshan Fabiola - 2007-05-13
Because bird flu is a threat for birds, humans and even for global economy, specialists worked to develop an efficient vaccine for this problem. It is believed that an experimental vaccine might be ef...