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Avian Flu—What is the risk to humans?

Author(s) -

GA Ogunbanjo

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

south african family practice

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2078-6204

pISSN - 2078-6190

DOI - 10.1080/20786204.2004.10873026

Subject(s) - medicine , influenza a virus subtype h5n1 , bird flu , general practice , family medicine , environmental health , virology , virus

Extracted from text ... Travel medicine SA Fam Pract 2004;46(1) 10 Introduction The current Asian avian flu outbreaks in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, South Korea and Japan has brought to the fore the risk posed by zoonotic diseases to humans. Zoonotic diseases are primarily diseases of vertebrate animals that are naturally transmitted to humans. As at 27 January 2004, the number of confirmed deaths related to avian flu in humans rose to eight cases, mostly in children, who were in close contact with live poultry in Thailand and Vietnam. What is worrying is the similarity of the present outbreaks of avian flu with the SARS ..

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