What is H5N1 Flu?

Influenza virus is a trunk of influenza subtype. This virus primarily infects bird species, but it is known to regularly mutate and jump into the human population. The recent H5N1 influenza, especially outbreaks in 2008, caused great concern because this flu strain has the potential to become a very serious epidemic disease if it allows to spread widely through the human population. The particularly dangerous diversity of this virus, referred to as a highly pathogenic trunk, is subject to special concerns, both because of its ability to decimate domesticated birds, and because it is preferable to produce serious symptoms when it infects people. In these animals, this is usually asymptomatic, or the cause of only very mild symptoms. The virus is easy to spread in the wild through the contact of the animal to animals and through various environmental vectors. It can easily spread to the populations of domesticated birds that are usually more vulnerable to this disease, especially highly domesticated by breedingEna. Highly pathogenic diversity of H5N1 influenza spreads with the same ease through both bird populations, but has more serious effects on its host, often leads to serious illness or death.

Bird flu represents the main risks for global poultry production, but also represents serious risks of human health. Although flu tribes tend to remain in a single species or species, they mutate with a certain regularity and can jump from species to species. One of the most serious outbreaks of influenza in recorded history, a pandemic of 1918, often called the Spanish flu, was of bird origin. This flu pandemic killed millions of people in the world that lacked air transport and other common paths for the transmission of diseases are available in the modern world.

All flu varieties, including the influenza H5N1, sometimes infect people who have extensive contact with animals carrying virus.In recent years it has happened repeatedly at the H5N1 virus. However, this flu tribe has not yet managed to mutate in such a way that it could reliably expand from the human host to the human host. Until such a mutation occurs, the influenza H5N1 will not be able to cause a pandemic in the human population. However, isolated incidents of man's transmission have been reported and such mutations have occurred regularly in the past, so the pandemic is far from impossible.