Avian Influenza

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Avian influenza is a disease that humans are becoming exposed to through contact, either directly or indirectly, with infected poultry or fowl. This paper explores the history of the flu, as well as what is being done to combat this infectious and deadly disease.

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"Avian Influenza, also known as Avian flu or "bird flu" is "an infectious disease of birds caused by type A strains of the influenza virus" according to the World Health Organization. Identified over 100 years ago in Italy it has now spread throughout the entire globe. The immune systems of some bird species are more resistant to this disease than other although it is believed that all species are susceptible to becoming infected with the disease. The flu ranges "from mild illness to a highly contagious and rapidly fatal disease results in severe epidemics." "

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