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2007-02-13 23:17:10 · 5 answers · asked by Iceman҂ 5 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
Its actually endemic in south east asian birds
2007-02-14 06:16:18 · answer #1 · answered by Bacteria Boy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Avian flu caused by the H5N1 is not classified as a pandemic as of this time.
A pandemic is a global disease outbreak. A flu pandemic occurs when a new influenza virus emerges for which people have little or no immunity, and for which there is no vaccine. The disease spreads easily person-to-person, causes serious illness, and can sweep across the country and around the world in very short time.
It is difficult to predict when the next influenza pandemic will occur or how severe it will be. Wherever and whenever a pandemic starts, everyone around the world is at risk. Countries might, through measures such as border closures and travel restrictions, delay arrival of the virus, but cannot stop it.
Health professionals are concerned that the continued spread of a highly pathogenic avian H5N1 virus across eastern Asia and other countries represents a significant threat to human health. The H5N1 virus has raised concerns about a potential human pandemic because:
It is especially virulent
It is being spread by migratory birds
It can be transmitted from birds to mammals and in some limited circumstances to humans, and
Like other influenza viruses, it continues to evolve.
2007-02-14 00:47:07 · answer #2 · answered by Seryus! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bird flu is not, at the moment, a pandemic. A pandemic refers to a globally spread epidemic, an outburst of a disease virtually everywhere around the world.
Right now, there are certain parts of the world and certain countries that are having tremendous problems with it and struggling to contain outbreaks of the disease. In Western countries, however, isolated cases have been swiftly dealt with.
In conclusion, it can be said that bird flu causes epidemics in local areas where birds are infected and authorities have to try and prevent it from spreading even further. An epidemic is not yet here and if biologists are to be believed, it is only a matter of when, not it.
Check out more info at http://www.bird-flu-center.com
2007-02-15 01:27:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pandemic
2007-02-13 23:20:43 · answer #4 · answered by tradjazziscool 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is grouped under pandemic because it just doesn't spread locally, it can spread to the different countries of the world. And its the reason why it is pandemic.
2007-02-14 00:24:41 · answer #5 · answered by Emitz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋