COMMUNICABLE DISEASE

Communicable Disease and Your Community

Communicable Disease and Your Community

Avian influenza is a contamination initiated by avian (bird) influenza (flu) viruses. These influenza viruses happen routinely amidst birds. Wild birds worldwide convey the viruses in their intestines, but generally manage not get ill from them. However, avian influenza is very contagious amidst birds and can make some tame birds, encompassing chickens, ducks, and turkeys, very ill and murder them. (Avian influenza infection in human 2010)

In the past ten years the epidemiology of both reduced and highly pathogenic avian influenza (LPAI/HPAI) has altered substantially, much was wise from freshly ...