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This 12 page paper examines Avian Influenza, often referred to as ‘bird flu’ focusing on the H5N1 variant that is seen as the most likely A strain variant that could cause a human pandemic. The paper outlines the problem, looks at the condition, including mortality and morbidity, symptoms and clinical progression as well as geographical, seasonal and demographic factors and influences. The paper then considers the current hypotheses concerning avian influenza and looks at the potential sources of information and the current gaps in research. The bibliography cites 10 sources.
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File: TS14_TEbirdflu.rtf
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in domesticated birds such as ducks, turkeys and chickens (CDC, 2006). There are three types viruses, classified as A, B and C (CDC, 2006, WHO, 2006). The A viruses are
those which can be passed to humans, this includes the H5N1 variant which has caused death when passed to human. This is the virus that is referred to as bird
flu and has been assessed as capable of causing a global pandemic in the future with a virus that the human body has not had wide scale exposure and as
such has no immunity to resist. An event such as this will not have any geographical boarders and the entire world is likely to be impacted. There is a
history of influenza pandemics in modern history, the 1918 pandemic killed between 50 and 60 million people globally, this was the most serous pandemic during the 20th century, the second
and third pandemics of that century, in 1957 and 1968 killed 2 million and 1 million respectively (WHO, 2005). The potential of avian influenza strain H5N1 to adapt and evolve
so that human to human transmission occurs provides the potential for another global pandemic. The global loss of life could be very high in addition to this there will also
be an economic cost. In the US alone it is estimated a serous pandemic could be equal to between 4% - 6% of the GDP if it is a serous
pandemic similar to the 1918 outbreak, but as low as 1% - 1.5% of GDP is it is a less serous outbreak, such as those seen in 1957 and 1968
and the 2006 budget to prepare for such as pandemic in the US alone is totalling $3,320 million for 2006 ( CBO, 2006) The Condition Avian Influenza is caused
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