how or who do you report birdflu in animals and humans too.?
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the health clinic in your town or county
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you are confused!\nfrg is a bird
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Maybe the vending machine was concerned about the bird flu.\n\nSeriously, though: There should be an 800 number on it that you can call.
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Avian influenza in birds\nAvian influenza is an infection caused by avian (bird) influenza (flu) viruses. These influenza viruses occur naturally among birds. Wild birds worldwide carry the viruses in their intestines, but usually do not get sick from them. However, avian influenza is very contagious among birds and can make some domesticated birds, including chickens, ducks, and turkeys, very sick and kill them.\n\nInfected birds shed influenza virus in their saliva, nasal secretions, and feces. Susceptible birds become infected when they have contact with contaminated secretions or excretions or with surfaces that are contaminated with secretions or excretions from infected birds. Domesticated birds may become infected with avian influenza virus through direct contact with infected waterfowl or other infected poultry, or through contact with surfaces (such as dirt or cages) or materials (such as water or feed) that have been contaminated with the virus.\n\nInfection with avian influenza viruses in domestic poultry causes two main forms of disease that are distinguished by low and high extremes of virulence. The “low pathogenic” form may go undetected and usually causes only mild symptoms (such as ruffled feathers and a drop in egg production). However, the highly pathogenic form spreads more rapidly through flocks of poultry. This form may cause disease that affects multiple internal organs and has a mortality rate that can reach 90-100% often within 48 hours.\n\nAvian Influenza A (H5N1)\nInfluenza A (H5N1) virus – also called “H5N1 virus” – is an influenza A virus subtype that occurs mainly in birds, is highly contagious among birds, and can be deadly to them. H5N1 virus does not usually infect people, but infections with these viruses have occurred in humans. Most of these cases have resulted from people having direct or close contact with H5N1-infected poultry or H5N1-contaminated surfaces.
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The current outbreak of bird flu is different from earlier ones in that officials have been unable to contain its spread. An outbreak in 1997 in Hong Kong was the first time the virus had spread to people, but it was much more quickly contained. A total of 18 people were hospitalized with six reported deaths. About 1.5 million chickens were killed in an effort to remove the source of the virus. \n\nUnlike the 1997 scare, this outbreak has spread more rapidly to other countries, increasing its exposure to people in varied locations and raising the likelihood that the strain will combine with a human influenza virus.\n\nConfirmed instances of avian influenza viruses infecting humans since 1997 include:\n\n1997: In Hong Kong, avian influenza A (H5N1) infected both chickens and humans. This was the first time an avian influenza virus had ever been found to transmit directly from birds to humans. During this outbreak, 18 people were hospitalized and 6 of them died. To control the outbreak, authorities killed about 1.5 million chickens to remove the source of the virus. Scientists determined that the virus spread primarily from birds to humans, though rare person-to-person infection was noted.\n\n\n\n1999: In Hong Kong, cases of avian influenza A H9N2 were confirmed in 2 children. Both patients recovered, and no additional cases were confirmed. The evidence suggested that poultry was the source of infection and the main mode of transmission was from bird to human. However, the possibility of person-to-person transmission remained open. Several additional human H9N2 infections were reported from mainland China in 1998-99.\n\n\n2003: Two cases of avian influenza A (H5N1) infection occurred among members of a Hong Kong family that had traveled to China. One person recovered, the other died. How or where these 2 family members were infected was not determined. Another family member died of a respiratory illness in China, but no testing was done. No additional cases were reported.\n\n\n\n2003: Avian influenza A (H7N7) infections among poultry workers and their families were confirmed in the Netherlands during an outbreak of avian flu among poultry. More than 80 cases of H7N7 illness were reported (the symptoms were mostly confined to eye infections, with some respiratory symptoms), and 1 patient died (in a veterinarian who had visited an affected farm). There was evidence of some human-to-human transmission.\n\n\n\n2003: H9N2 infection was confirmed in a child in Hong Kong. The child was hospitalized but recovered
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Bird flu is a viral infection that infect avain species. At the moment it cannot be passed onto humans. But obviously the major concern is to poultry farmers who have alrge stocks of chickens. \n\nIt may also be able to mutate so that the virus can pass onto humans and it has a chance to do so the more birds it infects. So preventing the spread is the best thing we can do just now.
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Where we are: Since 2004 some 170 humans have been infected with bird flu, with about 90 fatalities, mostly in Asia, according to the World Health Organization.\n\nBackground: With the flu spreading around the world, the virus has turned up in birds in Asia and Europe, and, most recently, Africa. So far, bird flu has only been passed from birds either to other birds or, in isolated cases, to humans. However, if the flu mutates into a strain that can pass from human to human, people will have no immunity and the flu will probably pass rapidly from person to person, creating a pandemic. Flu vaccines can only be made to protect against a particular virus, and, since the virus has yet to be passed from human to human, no vaccine can be developed.\n\nIn Asia, many people live with ducks and chickens in their homes and in their yards. Health and veterinary officials worldwide recently announced that a key way to stop the spread of the disease is to improve farming practices, segregating poultry from humans, and culling birds that have been infected with the deadly virus.\n\nWhat's next? When asked for predictions as to the seriousness of the pandemic, should one occur, experts have based their projections on a similar pandemic that occurred in 1918-1919. Up to a billion people fell ill, and nearly 100 million died worldwide. Translating to today's figures, they project that some 30-60 percent of the world's population could be infected by the virus, and over 300 million people worldwide could die. In the meantime, good hygiene remains the best prevention: keep hands well-washed, and avoid contact with people who have been infected with the virus.
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Through eating sick birds or exposure to their contaminated body fluids or feces.  Their have also been several documented cases of the virus passing between family members, due to their close contact, in SE. Asia. However the virus is not capable at this time of any regular or widespread transmission between humans.
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I assume you're referring to the bird flu that's currently spreading through western europe. It's important that you remember that very few birds can carry the disease; however, one of the ways that the disease spreads to humans is by contact with the feathers. The most likely ways of a human contracting the virus, though, are constant contact with the faeces of birds, as well as regular contact with their beaks. Of course, since birds preen their feathers using their beaks, it is possible that the virus could survive for a short time on the feathers, and so could be passed onto humans. If you're in any doubt as to whether you may have contracted the disease, you should go to a doctor immediately. Bird flu usually manifests itself first in the form of a minor eye infection, but can spread through the body quickly depending on the strain.\n\nIn the UK, the deadly H5N1 strain has only been confirmed to date in a single dead swan, and there are no confirmed cases of it being passed on to humans in the UK.\n\nBreeds of birds you should be especially careful with are swans, geese and ducks, as they are particularly susceptible to it and may carry it for several weeks without showing any symptoms whatsoever. Also, as they are migratory birds the risk of them carrying it from another country are greatly increased.\n\nAll that said, I wouldn't be too concerned about it; as long as you're careful and you're not in regular physical contact with birds you should be alright.\n\nAlex
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It is transmittable to human if a human being comes in contact with an infected bird. It is not yet transmittable from human to human. So as long as you do not touch the death  or infected birds you are not considerd to be cathing this flue. For the symptoms I cannot give you the correct answer so search for it on a searchengine.
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It's the latest viral mad bird infection.  Good luck.
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Have you heard, watched, or read ANYTHING about the bird flu?!
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Your are sick you need to report that
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Talking about stupid answers...  I can't believe this guy that has been answering yours about the dolphins.  This is what I've done about it...\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AtPhUtpqugKm6ixtNm3GLkTsy6IX?qid=1006030915232\n\nI don't know if it will help, but I think it will.  This is the kind of stuff that needs to be reported.  As far as making a comment on one of their questions...  probably a bad idea.  Someone else can report you, then.  I say report them.  If they keep doing it, they will be gone soon enough.
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Bird flu was thought only to infect birds until the first human cases were seen in Hong Kong in 1997. \n\nHumans catch the disease through close contact with live infected birds. \n\nBirds excrete the virus in their faeces, which dry and become pulverised, and are then inhaled. \n\nSymptoms are similar to other types of flu - fever, malaise, sore throats and coughs. People can also develop conjunctivitis. \n\nResearchers are now concerned because scientists studying a case in Vietnam found the virus can affect all parts of the body, not just the lungs. \n\nThis could mean that many illnesses, and even deaths, thought to have been caused by something else, may have been due to the bird flu virus.
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You can report it at the site below.
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If you think about it-you see thousands of humans every week-probably, I would guess, something like 10,000 times more humans than any other animal..and yet how often have you seen a human drop from a heart attack, or even the much more common falling from a dizzy spell?  It isn't a common enough occurance to see regularly- Occasionally you will see a bird out of a large flock dropping, usually in a controlled manner- A bird will drop to the ground when it start to feel ill..it won't usually just fly until it drops or passes out.  I have found numerous birds that appeared stunned.  Most were likely from hitting windows, but I can't be sure of that.  From speaking to my veternarian friends, on average humans are more healthy, not less, than the great majority of animals-and if you add in animals in the wild, it's not even close.  Many, if not most, wild animals suffer from parasites of various kinds, and often from infections and poorly healed injuries.  It has nothing at all to do with exercise-pets that live in a house, and get much less exercise than feral dogs and cats live much longer, healthier lives.  The effect of better diet, less stress, modern health care is a much larger factor in health than exercise is-as is obvious from the fact that, even though humans get much less exercise now than 100 years ago, we live much much longer.  That being said, the combination of better diet, less stress, modern medicine *and* plenty of exercise is better still.