Article: Avian Flu Symptoms
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Avian Flu Symptoms
Influenza viruses are constantly changing and mutating. Today the current risk to the world population in that the H5N1 strain of avian bird flu will adapt and start to spread from human to human.
If the H5N1 strain does adapt and start to spread, the concern for health and government officials is since humans do not have any natural protection or immunity against the new strain of bird flu, we will quickly be in a worldwide pandemic.
There have been bird flu epidemics in the past and governments have been quick to quarantine poultry operations and destroy thousands of birds, in order to prevent more contamination.
Obviously these measures have had a dramatic financial impact on poultry farmers. Some governments have stepped in to compensate far...
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