Frequently Asked Question
Bird Flu
Question: How do you know if you
are at risk for avian flu?
Answer: There is a notification
network around the world run by the World Health Organization
that will
let us know if the bird flu has developed the capacity to get into humans and
has spread.
When that happens, we will be tracking this bird
flu. So it's not a matter of someone in Peoria, Ill., or New
Mexico becoming ill and thinking, "Gee I might have the bird flu." It
doesn't happen in isolation like that.
We will know it's coming.
The Centers for Disease Control would let us know
and the various state health departments would be involved. This
happens every year with regular influenza. Dr. William Schaffner
Question: How is it contracted?
Answer: Influenza is what we call
a respiratory virus. When we breath out, there are microscopic
secretions that can contain a virus. And if you're close to an
individual and in turn inhale those secretions, you
can get an infection.
Also, if I get these secretions on my hands I can
touch someone else and perhaps inoculate them.
Influenza has the capacity to spread rather rapidly
in enclosed spaces, and remember: This is a wintertime
virus, as most respiratory viruses are.
Eating an infected chicken won't give you the infection;
that's not a risk. The problem is that you
don't want an infected flock around that could spread it to more chickens or
humans.
Dr. William Schaffner
Bird Flu Index / Q&A
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