Avian Influenza
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Avian Influenza
...of highly contagious viruses which are transferred between birds, often without symptoms in wild birds but capable of causing illness and death in domesticated birds such as ducks, turkeys and chickens (CDC, 2006). There are three types viruses, classified as A, B and C (CDC, 2006, WHO, 2006). The A viruses are those which can be passed to humans, this includes the H5N1 variant which has caused death when passed to human. This is the virus that is referred to as ‘bird flu’ and has been assessed as capable of causing a global pandemic in the future with a virus that the human body has not had wide scale exposure and as such has no immunity to resist. An event such as this will not have any geographical boarders and the entire world is likely to be impacted.
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