Bird Flu..

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[KillChillPandey]

kaadhu is it not true that bacteria is dead after cooking at 100+ degree temperatures?

How Do Humans Get Bird Flu?

People catch bird flu by close contact with birds or bird droppings. Exactly what "close contact" means differs from culture to culture.

Some people have caught H5N1 from cleaning or plucking infected birds. In China, there have been reports of infection via inhalation of aerosolized materials in live bird markets. It's also possible that some people were infected after swimming or bathing in water contaminated with the droppings of infected birds. And some infections have occurred in people who handle fighting cocks.

People don't catch the virus from eating fully cooked chicken or eggs.

There have been a few cases where one infected person caught the bird flu virus from another person -- but only after close personal contact. So far, there has been no sustained human-to-human spread of H5N1.

[texas]

Yes that is true!!  So does that mean we should be eating bird flu effected chickens and eggs by boiling them to 100+ temperatures??

 

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Is There a Bird Flu Vaccine?

Yes. On April 17, 2007, the FDA announced its approval of the first vaccine to prevent human infection with one strain of the bird flu. The vaccine has been purchased by the U.S. federal government to be distributed by public health officials if needed. This vaccine will not be made commercially available to the general public.

Other bird flu vaccines are being developed by other companies. And the World Health Organization has a stockpile of the vaccine, with plans to quickly produce more if needed.

 

When given along with immunity-boosting agents called adjuvants, experimental H5N1 vaccines offer good cross-protection against different H5N1 variants.

And several companies are working on universal flu vaccines and antivirals that would protect against all known strains of influenza.

Is There a Treatment for Bird Flu?

The flu drugs Tamiflu and Relenza should work against bird flu, although more studies are needed. These drugs must be given soon after symptoms appear.

Unfortunately, H5N1 in humans can be a severe illness requiring hospitalization, isolation, and intensive care.

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[texas]

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[KillChillPandey]

Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has declared a state of emergency over a bird flu outbreak that’s killed millions of birds in the state’s poultry industry.

The governor’s order activates an emergency operations plan to support the state response to the epidemic.

It also calls for National Guard personnel to be ordered to duty as needed, but it wasn’t immediately clear whether any personnel would be mobilized.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported the bird flu’s presence in 13 additional turkey flocks in Minnesota. That brought the state’s overall total to 44. Chicken operations in Iowa and Wisconsin have also been hit by the bird flu. There are 16 states now coping with the disease in commercial bird operations.

It also hit the first Minnesota chicken farm. A third-generation egg producer in northwestern Minnesota has been hit by the bird flu, marking the first time since this outbreak began that the disease has been detected in the state in commercially-raised chickens.

Amon Baer said his J & A Farms, about 20 miles west of Detroit Lakes, must destroy roughly 300,000 chickens after his testing on Monday confirmed the presence of the highly pathogenic H5N2 bird flu.

The Minnesota Board of Animal Health said Thursday that the agency is aware of the “presumptive positive” at J & A Farms and is in the process of formal confirmation.

Because of its presence in other states’ chicken flocks, said Board of Animal Health spokeswoman Bethany Hahn, “it’s not too surprising” that the bird flu would hit a chicken operation in Minnesota.

The state’s farmers raise roughly 47 million chickens a year for meat and another 10.4 million for eggs. Annual egg production in Minnesota averages nearly 3 billion. Those totals do not put Minnesota near the top nationally, while the state does lead the United States in turkey production.

Baer said his father started the egg-production company in 1965, and his sons are also in the business. His hope is one of his eight grandchildren will take over, but he’s worried about the disease derailing the company financially.

“The requirements are that the entire [flock] be depopulated,” Baer said. And while there is federal assistance available to cover some of the farm’s losses, it doesn’t come close to covering the entire expense, he added.

“This is something that is very expensive, cleaning, disinfecting in order to get permission to restock the facility,” Baer said. “We have to prove that we don’t have the virus anymore before we can repopulate.”

Baer said his farm has never run into a problem of this magnitude since it began operating in 1965, adding that he runs “a very, very expensive vaccination program.”

He laments that there has yet to be “a viable vaccination” for the H5N2 strain of the bird flu.

The USDA’s Poultry Research Laboratory in Georgia is working on the vaccine for poultry.

“We are making progress on that,” David Swayne, the lab’s director, said in the conference call Wednesday.

Although no human illnesses have been reported in connection with the H5N2 outbreak and national and state public health officials believe the risk to be low, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientists are trying to develop a human vaccine.

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Minnesota's declared a state of emergency because of bird flu, which has struck more than 40 poultry farms in the state.

The state's also offering the anti-flu drug Tamiflu to workers who have handled the dead and dying birds, just to make sure they don't catch it, too.

H5N2 bird flu has spread to a dozen U.S. states. It can kill chickens and turkeys quickly, and once a flock is infected, all the birds must be slaughtered and destroyed. More than 7 million U.S. birds have been slaughtered because of the virus, U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates.

Poultry producers have been advised on ways to protect their flocks. Experts believe the virus is being carried by waterfowl migrating from Asia. Many birds can carry H5N2 without getting sick.

In Minnesota, about 87 people have been identified who might have handled sick birds, Kristen Ehresmann, infectious disease specialist at the Minnesota Department of Health, told NBC News. She said 70 of them had agreed to take a course of Tamiflu, an antiviral drug that can prevent human influenza.

"The poultry on grocery store shelves has always been safe and will continue to be safe."

There's no evidence that people can catch H5N2, but they can catch other forms of avian influenza, notably H5N1 bird flu and H7N9 bird flu.

"We haven't seen any human cases," Ehresmann said. "It's entirely possible. We just haven't seen a case yet."

So the advice from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is to take the drug, just in case.

"There's no reason for anybody in the state of Minnesota to be concerned about their own health or that of their children," Governor Mark Dayton told a news conference.

The affected birds will be destroyed by a composting process. All poultry for sale will be tested first, Dayton and other officials added.

"The poultry on grocery store shelves has always been safe and will continue to be safe," Minnesota agriculture commissioner Dave Frederickson told a news conference.

"Farmers who haven't been impacted by this virus, I ask you to please work with us and practice strict biosecurity on their farms." That can include covering bird feed and cleaning boots with bleach before entering houses where birds are kept.

Wisconsin declared an emergency earlier this week because of bird flu.

[GULABJAM]

Vammoo eroju chicken pickle tinna india nundi dosth gadu testhey. :(

[sandie]

eppudu ee  Virus kosam Vaccines Approve chesthara? Stocks Up avuthai emo ga 

[puli_keka]

Washington state lo raaledu ani cheppandi ro

[arshad]

Mari CA LO no NV aa :(

[texas]

Mari CA LO no NV aa :(

NV lo rad akkada evad Chicken tinad, andaru P thintaar

[xxxmen]

Chekodi flu correct ga boil chesi tinte a flue vundadu India lo red alert flue vunapude chicken 10gi tina 2007 lo ankunta