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In Germany cats have started to die from the bird's flu
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Strain of the bird's flu has been found in the corpse of the cat in the north of Germany, Associated Press informs. Presence of a virus has been confirmed by the laboratory of the Friedrich Loeffler institute.
It is the first case in Germany when the virus of the bird's flu has been found not in
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15 types of bird flu
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Humans, birds and other living beings are responsive to the flu virus. There are 15 types of bird flu. The most infectious and usually fatal for birds are types H5 and H7.
The most dangerous virus causing the greatest concern is H5N1 strain. However, even within this strain, there are different
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Domestic birds and the bird's flu
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Keeping birds in fan apartment completely excludes an opportunity of infection. The virus of the bird's flu is spread by water kinds of birds. Therefore the forage cannot serve as a transmitting agent of disease. It is necessary to say that some kind of environment (faecal matter, water) is necessar
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Bird Flu related deaths
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As of 10 October, 2005, 117 confirmed cases of bird flu had been registered in Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia, with 60 lethal outcomes.
Unlike other viruses, bird flu mortality rate is remarkably high— over 50%. For comparison, the SARS virus, which appeared in November of 2002, was f
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The first documented mention
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The first documented mention of flu in birds, initially referred to as exudative chicken typhus, the Braunschweig disease, and later—as European Fowl Pest (EFP), was registered in Italy at the end of the 18th century. In 1900, viral nature of the disease was stated, and in 1956 it was proved that th
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Spanish Influenza
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The viruses of the bird flu and Spanish influenza are indeed alike. Scientists found out that the Spanish influenza genes have a clear avian origin. But the bird flu is unlikely to kill off half of Europe, like Spanish influenza did for one simple reason. At the beginning of the 20th century there w
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Spanish flu
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The Spanish Flu Pandemic was an unusually severe and deadly Avian influenza pandemic, which killed 50 million to 100 million people worldwide during about a year in 1918 and 1919. It is thought to have been one of the most deadly pandemics so far in human history. It was caused by strain of the subt
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Bird Flu is the "The Coming Plague"
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Cases when a disease commonly affecting animals is transmitted to people are not something new or extraordinary. However, over the last years, such cases became more frequent, and animals started to transmit viruses, bacteria and parasites to humans more frequently than before.
Experts at the N
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Bird flu. Information
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The bird flu is an infectious bird disease, caused by one of the strains of A infection virus, which resembles a normal human virus. Symptoms are also similar: high temperature, headache, ailment, congested pipes, mild cough. This infection is dangerous because of its complications: viral pneumonia,
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From animals to human: Bird Flu is next?
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Some diseases spread to humans from animals. Will Bird Flu be next? Here is a summary of diseases spreading to humans. Many believed they would never spread, so its better to be ready.
AIDS. Humans became infected with this virus by anthropoid apes, living in Central Africa, most likely from a ch
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From animals to human: Bird Flu is next? - cont'd
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Smallpox. Humans caught this infection from a camel. The disease became known about 3 thousand years ago and for a long time was considered the main cause of children’s death. Many outstanding historical persons, for example, Louis the Fifteenth, King of France, became victims of smallpox. Historian
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Director-General of World Health Organisation Lee Jong-wook also considers that the pandemic of human Bird Flu is inevitable. “It’s just a matter of time when the Bird flu virus, most likely the H5N1 strain, will begin to transfer from human to human, causing flu pandemic among people,” he said in h