Asian bird flu, otherwise known as Avian Influenza or Avian Bird Flu has the potential to become the next worldwide pandemic. It has the potential to kill millions of people worldwide. Currently, the Asian Bird Flu is widespread in parts of Asia among birds, both wild and domesticated. Also, the Asian Bird Flu has found its way to Africa and parts of Europe. In Asia a few hundred people have been infected and nearly 100 have died. Asian Bird Flu worries doctors and researchers who are nervous that the virus will mutate, as flu viruses frequently do, and the Asian Bird Flu will become a virus that attacks humans who currently have absolutely no immunity to it.
Many projections say if the Asian bird flu does mutate and start infecting humans that up 20% of the world’s population may die. Researchers base much of their information the possible effects of the Asian Bird Flu from the bird flu pandemic of 1918. This bird flu mutated to a form that was contractible by humans and many people died because of it. The current Asian Bird Flu will likely follow in its footsteps.
Today, doctors are no better at treating the Asian Bird Flu than they were other flus almost 90 years ago because the flu is a virus, recently mutated, that has no direct past history to go on. Today there are some antiviral drugs that might lessen the severity of the Asian Bird Fu, but researchers are still trying to figure out its structure so that a true vaccine might be developed. As a result, health authorities are concerned and anxious about the Asian Bird Flu and about what will happen should the virus mutate in humans and create a bird flu pandemic.
Bird Flu, an alias of Avian influenza or Asian bird flu, is a growing disease that is evolving each day. In its present form Bird Flu has only been transmitted through people who have had some form of contact with infected birds. Even so it is still possible for humans to contract a mutated Bird Flu virus from one another. In fact scientists have agreed that it is only a matter of time before an inevitably deadly human strain will be passed in to humans.
Many countries have stockpiled anti-viral Bird Flu medicines that would prevent some effects of Bird Flu in individuals by boosting the body's immune system. But there are still many countries that are too poor to take such counter-measures and so there are emergency procedures being put in place that would basically isolate people with the virus and stop effected travelers from spreading the virus worldwide.
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Asian Bird Flu needs to be keenly watched