Chicken Disease Symptoms
Published on Apr 15 2010, in the categories: Chicken Disease Symptoms
This is an article on chicken disease symptoms, more specific on the H5N1 virus. Over the past 100 years, humanity has undergone three major influenza pandemics that have caused up to 50 million deaths. Today the threat is the so-called fowl plague, transmitted from birds, which may also affect the human species.
Asian countries you have a new virus with a particular virulence, which decimated the birds without being arrested. The bird flu virus could quickly "learn" to pass from person to person and trigger a pandemic dangerous and we defend ourselves with drugs and vaccines, but ... we are prepared?
As of July was a threat, spectral, who moved East Asia. Suddenly, Europe has realized that the threat was in the doorway of the house with a letter from the highly bureaucratic language, a Russian agriculture ministry veterinarian informed of the World Organization of Animal Health (OIE) that its colleagues from Novosibirsk in Siberia, had counted the bodies of dozens of ducks, and that tests carried out had their deaths attributed to avian influenza, thus documenting his arrival to the Ural mountain range that divides Asia from Europe. From here he could, presumably, to invade Europe with migrating geese.
Why such alarm over the death of ducks simple? The problem is that the bird flu virus, called H5N1, may also threaten humans. For now, have been hit only a hundred people, all in Southeast Asia, to direct infection from birds which were in contact with livestock. But scientist’s fear that will soon be able to "learn" to move between humans triggering a pandemic that is epidemic worldwide.
This, fortunately, does not mean that the transition under way in this period of Siberian ducks on the Italian peninsula can be dangerous for the people: so far the virus to pass from animal to man needed to exploit the close coexistence of the two and the poor hygienic conditions (a situation which, fortunately, is not common in Italy).
But there are indications of the likelihood of passing the virus from person to person: the Thai girl of 11 years became infected in September 2004 he lived in close contact with chickens, but dying transmitted the infection to his mother and aunt, both unexposed risk.
This is the first outbreak of "probable" human to human transmission. In another case, however, the bird is not responsible for the disease: in a wealthy suburb of Jakarta (Indonesia), where there are only villas and gardens and there are chickens, turkeys, ducks and even in July, died a man of 38 years and shortly after, his 2 daughters. A third suspected outbreak, the largest so far was recorded in August in Vietnam, where they were involved a couple and their three children.
If the outbreak is detected immediately, the administration of antiviral potential contacts of sick people is enough to limit the spread. A group of researchers at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, suggested that the first outbreak could be 500 thousand of cases. If each infected patient does not transmit the disease to more than 1-2 other people, speaking with the antiviral within 21 days you could turn off the outbreak itself.
The H5N1 pneumonia is closely related to viruses and does not respond to antibiotics, are often fatal. In the 2-3 days that elapse between infection and onset of chicken disease symptoms, the virus penetrates the cell wall and possible lung infection.
Asian countries you have a new virus with a particular virulence, which decimated the birds without being arrested. The bird flu virus could quickly "learn" to pass from person to person and trigger a pandemic dangerous and we defend ourselves with drugs and vaccines, but ... we are prepared?
As of July was a threat, spectral, who moved East Asia. Suddenly, Europe has realized that the threat was in the doorway of the house with a letter from the highly bureaucratic language, a Russian agriculture ministry veterinarian informed of the World Organization of Animal Health (OIE) that its colleagues from Novosibirsk in Siberia, had counted the bodies of dozens of ducks, and that tests carried out had their deaths attributed to avian influenza, thus documenting his arrival to the Ural mountain range that divides Asia from Europe. From here he could, presumably, to invade Europe with migrating geese.
Why such alarm over the death of ducks simple? The problem is that the bird flu virus, called H5N1, may also threaten humans. For now, have been hit only a hundred people, all in Southeast Asia, to direct infection from birds which were in contact with livestock. But scientist’s fear that will soon be able to "learn" to move between humans triggering a pandemic that is epidemic worldwide.
This, fortunately, does not mean that the transition under way in this period of Siberian ducks on the Italian peninsula can be dangerous for the people: so far the virus to pass from animal to man needed to exploit the close coexistence of the two and the poor hygienic conditions (a situation which, fortunately, is not common in Italy).
But there are indications of the likelihood of passing the virus from person to person: the Thai girl of 11 years became infected in September 2004 he lived in close contact with chickens, but dying transmitted the infection to his mother and aunt, both unexposed risk.
This is the first outbreak of "probable" human to human transmission. In another case, however, the bird is not responsible for the disease: in a wealthy suburb of Jakarta (Indonesia), where there are only villas and gardens and there are chickens, turkeys, ducks and even in July, died a man of 38 years and shortly after, his 2 daughters. A third suspected outbreak, the largest so far was recorded in August in Vietnam, where they were involved a couple and their three children.
If the outbreak is detected immediately, the administration of antiviral potential contacts of sick people is enough to limit the spread. A group of researchers at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, suggested that the first outbreak could be 500 thousand of cases. If each infected patient does not transmit the disease to more than 1-2 other people, speaking with the antiviral within 21 days you could turn off the outbreak itself.
The H5N1 pneumonia is closely related to viruses and does not respond to antibiotics, are often fatal. In the 2-3 days that elapse between infection and onset of chicken disease symptoms, the virus penetrates the cell wall and possible lung infection.
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