My acquaintance insists that bird flue is not an epidemic but epizootic- Is she a ****?

Answer 1

No she is quite correct. At present, the human deaths from bird flu are quite insignificant although there is a huge potential of it becoming a major epidemic or more likely and correctly, a pandemic.

At present, the deaths experienced are in bird populations and by definition, that makes it an epizootic. I believe her point is that we should down play the hype about the associated human deaths, they are epidemiological insignificant but the risk to major bird populations is great, which is why they are exterminating massive amounts of birds to control it.

Answer 2

Epizootic is the animal equivalent of an epidemic. In the case of bird flu its certainly a bird epidemic (the definition of an epidemic being "affecting a large number within a community"), but not a human epidemic.

Answer 3

Epidemics "normally" is used when talking about diseases concerned with humans.... epizootic in relation to animals. As the Bird flu you are talking about has not affected humans in the masses it is not an epidemic yet.. The fears are that it could.

Answer 4

Epizootics A single noun meaning :-The study of epidemic animal diseases.

Answer 5

If it were an epedemic, it would be an epizootic. This being said, it could not be an epizootic if it is not an epedemic. And she may well be a ****, and that may well not be a bad thing :P

Answer 6

No, you are. Bird flue is what our feathered friends use to lay eggs..with, through, by , oh, whatever.

Answer 7

ya brid flu is small da media loves it I live in an area "effected" by bird flu since it started and i'm fine. so sounds like hes right. but google it

Answer 8

yes

Answer 9

It's safest to assume so.

Answer 10

yep