Who discovered avian influenza?

There are flu viruses endemic to birds and mammals, and sometimes only certain species of birds or mammals. Because the cells of different species share similar tissues and biochemical pathways, th...

its a pneumonia type disease ****

H5N1 is not currently a threat, but the possibility of becoming a threat is very real. If bird flu were to mutate to a form transmissable from human to human, this could be a potential disaster--s...

The Center for Disease Control, which is located in Atlanta, Georgia and Stovington, Vermont. www.cdc.gov EMT USAMRIID also does the same...but they are military (United States Army Medica...

Flu "season" is simply the time of year when people are more likely to catch the flu than at other times of the year. It never really goes away--if you're exposed to it, you can get...

Go on-line to the Smithsonian Magazine Archives. They did an excellent article on the 'Spanish Lady' some time ago. Lots of annotations and other resources.

Avian flu is caused when infected birds pass the virus via their droppings. Then domestic poultry becomes infected from the contaminated soil, food, water or inhalation. It then gets passed to hu...

In some countries, mass vaccination of farmed birds has been carried out. There are also culls of farmed birds whenever there is an outbreak. However this does nothing to stop the spread in wild bi...