Bird Flu Outbreak Feared



Avian influenza is a highly contagious disease of birds which is currently epidemic amongst poultry in Asia. Exposure to infected poultry and their feces or dust/soil contaminated with feces) can result in human infection. These recommendations have been developed because human infections have been identified in association with the current poultry epidemic. They will be updated as more information becomes available.

Experts fear that if it combines with human flu or mutates, the bird flu could become highly contagious and lead to a deadly pandemic.

Don t be one of the 5,000,000 estimated to die this year from a bird flu pandemic. Up to date information on the spread of the outbreak including mutations and transference to other livestock.

Global Pandemic are preparing information packs for at risk workers and other interested parties that will be available for free.

There is a potential risk that HPAI subtype H5N1 might be carried along migration routes of wild water birds to densely populated areas in the south Asian subcontinent and along migratory flyways to Africa and Europe. Recent outbreaks of HPAI in Russia and Kazakhstan may be suggestive of the role of wild birds in the epidemiology of HPAI. The complex overlapping of major flyways and the lack of information on migratory species potentially involved in AI disease spread make simple association of wild bird flyways with outbreaks of AI difficult.

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Bird Flu Outbreak Feared