Bird Flu – Prevent The Outbreak

The Bird Flu Virus is a very scary virus that could threaten our planet’s population. This is because there is always a chance that the virus becomes an outbreak and we have no certifiable cure for it yet.

If we do have cures, there is always a question of how efficient and how many can be produced in the span of a short time.

Just think about the effect of the deadly H5N1 strain on birds. The flock of birds once contacting the virus can immediately die within the day.

Just think about how bad the situation will be for us humans if the virus has gone widespread to humans. Imagine humans dying within a day after contacting it?

Currently, there have been very few people who have contacted the bird flu. The numbers of people who have died are not enough to call it an outbreak but enough to call it a concern.

The bad thing for the humans who have sp far died from the bird flu is the symptoms it presents. The symptom bird flu brings is just similar to ordinary flu and sore eyes.

Now how will the person really know if he or she has suffered ordinary flu or bird flu, until it has been too late to diagnose and give medications?

The bird flu H5N1 strain is a concern we worry about as said earlier. This is because health officials are just to prevent an outbreak of the 1918-19 pandemic of the Spanish Flu.

That outbreak killed 40 million of the 500 million infected. It had killed more than the World War 1. So here are some of the things that health officials consider preludes to a pandemic.

→ When the virus of H5N1 finally develops into a direct transmission from birds to humans, it will be pretty dangerous. It has so far directly transferred to some humans that were infected in Hong Kongduring 1997.

However, it will become more dangerous when the virus the humans have contacted can transfer directly to other humans.

→ The virus is pretty lethal because it can kill almost 100% of those infected. If the infected bird does survive, it can shed the virus more, making it more dangerous. The mortality rate on people has so far killed more than half of the people infected.

→ The spread of the virus on birds is so rapid. This may be because of the birds migrating form one place to the other. The virus may also spread to other flocks from the cages they share when transferred from one farm to the other.

What if this virus can rapidly spread to us humans and kill humans within a day?

→ The biggest danger it posses is that it can mutate quickly. It has been known to grab other blocks from the same kind of virus from different species.

It has the potential to combine with human virus and when that happens, the threat becomes greater for humans.

These are the things that scare health officials from the bird flu virus. We should be able to stop it at its early stages before ending up getting a whole lot worse.