Save Your Family From This Pandemi

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Introduction About H5N1

Avian influenza is an infection of the disease in poultry caused by influenza virus strain type A. The disease first identified in Italy more than 100 years ago, now appear in the world.

All poultry be susceptible to avian influenza infection, although some species more resistant to this virus than others. This infection causes symptoms that spectrum is very knowledgeable on the birds-poultry, ranging from mild symptoms to spread to a very high and fast into a fatal disease resulting in a serious epidemic.

WHO's latest report dated 18 February 2004 said that influenza A (H5N1) have caused outbreaks of avian influenza in Thailand, Viet Nam, China, Japan, Korea, Cambodia, Laos and Indonesia S IA. Even in Thailand has bird flu infect people with the number of cases of 9 people, 7 of them died. Vietnam fell ill a more severe outbreak of 22 reported cases in humans, 15 of them died. Nyatalah that outbreaks of bird flu is not the only cause of death in the animals but also in humans.

In January 2004, in several provinces in Indonesia, especially in Bali, Lombok, Jabotabek, East Java, Central Java, West Kalimantan, and West Java, there are reported cases of death of chickens livestock performance. Death was initially suspected to be because the virus New Castle, but the final confirmation by the Ministry of Agriculture, caused by a virus of bird flu or Avian influenza (AI). Although up to this s aat in Indonesia have still not report the occurrence of transmission to humans, but caution must always be enhanced by the nature of these influenza viruses that can be turned into violent in a relatively quick time.

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