Study on Bird Flu Infection Process within a Poultry Farm with Effects of Spatial Diffusion

Bird flu fears widen

Western Europe is seeing a growing number of cases of H5N1 flu in wild birds that have migrated from the east, but new outbreaks in poultry in Africa threaten the hordes of birds heading north for the summer breeding season. Worries about the disease are likely to grow. The Tower of London's famous ravens are now, for the first time in 400 years, locked up inside the building. The move marks gr...

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The purpose of this paper is to provides general information about avian influenza (bird flu) and specific information about one type of bird flu, called avian influenza A (H5N1), that has caused infections in birds in Asia and Europe and in human in Asia. The main materials in this report are based on the World Health Organization (WHO) , world organization for animal health (OIE) , food and a...

Vaccinating poultry against avian flu is contributing to spread.

Inappropriate use of vaccination in poultry to try to prevent the spread of bird flu has become part of the problem and has serious human health implications, officials of the World Health Organization warned this week. “Vaccination can sometimes cause silent transmission of infection from asymptomatic birds. Mass vaccination programmes entail people tramping around the countryside from farm to...

Ratio of CD4+ to CD8+ T-Cells in the Recent Reported Cases of Bird Flu Infection in Asia

Level of transaminase enzymes in the reported cases of bird flu infection in Thailand.

Bird flu or avian flu, caused by H5N1 virus, is a new emerging infectious disease. There has been worldwide situation regarding avian influenza infections in poultry from 1997 (1). Kida noted that this H5N1 virus jumped the species barrier and caused severe disease with high mortality in humans in Vietnam and Thailand (2). Most infected cases usually developed progressive pneumonia with acute r...