The
symptoms: How you can tell...
Firstly, there is no evidence that the people
who have been infected with avian flu have passed the disease
on to other people. This suggests that a new, highly infectious,
flu virus has not been produced yet.
However, every time an
avian flu virus jumps from a bird to a person, the risk
of a new flu virus being produced increases.
For this reason, governments are keen to prevent the spread
of avian flu among birds and this is why they are culling
their poultry stocks.
In humans, it has been found that avian
flu causes similar symptoms to other types of flu:
- fever
- cough
- sore throat
- muscle aches
- conjunctivitis
- in severe cases of avian flu,
it can cause severe breathing problems and pneumonia,
and can be fatal.
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