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Preparing For Pandemic Influenza (Avian Flu)

Influenza as a viral respiratory disease that takes place in humans as well as animals such as pigs, ducks, and chickens.(1) Within humans, the symptoms of influenza consist of fever, muscle aches, and difficulty with breathing. The bird flu appears to engage humans by direct contact, and the fear is that the course of mutation will generate a type of bird flu that will transmit a disease to humans by the respiratory route. This may be the beginning of a deadly pandemic. Anxiety about the disturbing event of an influenza pandemic in the nearby future is greatly rising.(1) Raymond Tellier explains how H5N1, the highly pathogenic strain of influenza has began circulating Europe, Africa and Asia. It is believed that the major mode of transmission of influenza is through large droplets, resulting infection of this virus. It is believed that historically, the typical course has been the influenza pandemics occur approximately every tens years-(1957, 1968, 1977). (3) However a......


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