[Someone had better let the authorities know this before they let exposed Physicians and Paramedics loose to continue practicing, after being exposed to a suspected victim of bird flu.....]
Wednesday, March 04, 2009 09:19
The cause of bird flu is a type A influenza virus. Virus family Orthomyxoviridae, including influenza. Type-A influenza viruses can change form (Drift, Shift), and can cause epidemic and pandemic. Based on the sub-type consists of Hemaglutinin (H) and Neuramidase (N). Both letters are used as identification code subtipe bird flu that many types.
In humans, there is only type of H1N1, H2N2, H3N3, H5N1, H9N2, H1N2, H7N7.
While in the animal, H1-H5 and N1-N98. Strain the virulen / violent and cause of bird flu is H5N1 A subtipe.
The virus can survive in water up to 4 hours at a temperature of 22 ° C and more than 30 days at 0 C. The virus will die in the 60 ° C heating for 30 minutes or 56 ° C for 3 hours and with detergent, disinfectant such as formalin, and liquids that contain iodin.
Symptoms of bird flu can be distinguished in the poultry and humans.
Symptoms in birds is the blue crest, at the foot ulcer, sudden death. Moderate symptoms in humans are fever (body temperature above 38 ° C), weakness, nose and gum bleeding, shortness of breath, vomiting and stomach pain and diarrhea, cough and sore, throat, respiratory inflammation channel up, pneumonia, eye infections, muscle pains .
The period of incubation:
1. In the poultry: 1 sunday
2. On Human: 1-3 days, period of 1 day before infection until 3-5 days after symptoms develop. On children up to 21 days
Infectious bird flu from poultry to poultry, and poultry from kemanusia, through saliva, mucus from the nose and feces. This disease can also spread through the air tercemar virus H5N1 that come from sewage or sekreta birds / poultry with bird flu.
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