2007-03-28 02:37:33 · 6 answers · asked by victoria_shotunde 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
viruses - for the most part.
Usually influenza A virus
Bird flu is essentially the influenza A virus that infects birds somewhere in the world and in the process of doing so tends to recombine with a new set of antigens for its proteins.
From the point of view of your immune system, it's like it is disguising itself so you don't recognize it anymore and so you can get the bad 'flu again (even if it is fundamentally the same virus) because it takes your body by surprise.
2007-03-28 02:41:17 · answer #1 · answered by Orinoco 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
just one - Influenza A strain H5N1. It is a member of the Orthomyxoviridae family and its genome is segmented (-)sense RNA. H refers to haemagluttinin and the N refers to neuraminidase
2007-03-28 13:18:57 · answer #2 · answered by starla_o0 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A single virus
2007-03-28 09:54:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ticks, fleas, mosquitoes...basically any insect that can bite an infected bird.and transmit it to a human...and obviously the bird...lol
2007-03-28 09:45:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Multiple ones, lol.
2007-03-28 09:42:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.ohioagriculture.gov/news/news/anim-111705-avianflubackgrounder.pdf
look here
2007-03-28 12:45:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋