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 Flashes Avian Influenza which resulted in this year, seven people died showed that the virus continues to pose a real and constant threat to the health of not only birds, but people said today the World Health Organization (WHO).
The risk that the avian influenza virus, also known as H5N1, could mutate, warned Takeshi Sakai, WHO regional adviser for communicable diseases. Influenza virus is unpredictable, - said the specialist. - There is a constant possibility that H5N1 will merge with another strain.
This year, identified 21 cases of avian influenza in people of Egypt, Vietnam and Indonesia. In addition, there are reports of outbreaks of the virus among poultry and wild birds in several countries in Southeast Asia, as well as in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Israel and Nepal. In the last week of a severe lung infection caused by avian influenza, died three years of the Vietnamese girl. The avian flu epidemic peaked in 2006 when there were 115 cases, 79 fatal. In 2009, ill 73 people, 32 patients died. The mortality rate remains high - 59%. |
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