Influenza is one of the most common diseases among humans, it is not affected during the winter, or soon, may vary viruses causing influenza and may undergo certain stages change their behavior and work on the development and complexity of treatment methods, evidenced by the emergence of new diseases such as swine flu and influenza Birds recently.
Bird flu, or so-called “bird plague,” is a contagious viral disease, usually transmitted among birds, but it has begun to spread to humans. The main source is waterbirds such as ducks and easily transmitted to domestic birds that are easily transmitted to us. The virus for fear of changing its behavior and can be transmitted from one person to another. It is worth mentioning that there are 15 different types of bird flu, five of which have been discovered so far.
In 1997 in Hong Kong, 18 people were infected with the bird flu virus (18 died of them 6). In 1999, two cases were detected in Hong Kong and two in 2003.
Bird flu viruses spread through the air through the exit and volatilization of bird droppings, and can be transmitted through water, food, or anything that may touch the virus such as clothing or equipment for workers in poultry farms, for example, and the low temperature environment is better for this virus, Studies have shown that this virus dies at temperatures of 30 to 60 degrees, which confirms that the well-cooked poultry meat does not transfer the enemy.
Health practices to avoid bird flu:
• Separation of raw meat from its secretion and non-touching.
• Maintain the cleanliness of the equipment used for cooking and processing meat.
• Maintain personal hygiene.
• Cook well to make sure to completely eliminate viruses.
Symptoms of avian flu are very similar to regular flu symptoms such as fever, sore throat, muscle and joint pain, cough, and eye infections. They also have a range of side effects such as pneumonia, septicemia, organic failure, acute respiratory distress.
Exposure to birds directly infected with the disease, season of migration of birds, and also inhalation of droplets from feces infected birds, each of the above is a prevalence of the disease, and for vaccines, scientists are working on the development of strong vaccines that kill the virus and improve immunity to the body, US Food and Drug Administration approved four different drugs to treat the virus.