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Janvi M Patel
Dharmendra Singh Rajput
Bird flu known as avian influenza, is a viral infection that can infect birds, also humans and other animals. Most forms of the virus are restricted to birds. Currently, the virus isn’t known to spread via human-to-human contact. Still, some experts’ worry that H5N1 may pose a risk of becoming a pandemic threat to humans. With the novel coronavirus still rampant, fear of a new virus — which causes bird flu — has spread. This virus does not normally spread from human to human — however, earlier outbreaks caused considerable losses to the poultry industry. Several states have reported deaths of birds, but mostly non -domesticated. After bird flu (avian influenza) was confirmed in Kerala, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, and Himachal Pradesh, high alert has been sounded in Maharashtra. Several states, which have been reporting deaths of birds, including crows and migratory species, are scrambling to have samples tested for the virus. As anxiety spreads, there is fear of a fresh blow to the poultry industry — reports have been coming in of people giving up chicken and eggs, and of prices beginning to fall. Bird flu symptoms in humans can vary and range from "typical" flu symptoms (fever, sore throat, muscle pain) to eye infections and pneumonia. The H5N1 virus is a particularly severe form of pneumonia that causes the disease leads to viral pneumonia and multiorgan failure in many people who become infected. Veterinarians and poul try workers usually treat bird flu in commercial outbreaks. In rare human outbreaks, primary -care physicians, pediatricians, and emergency -medicine specialists may initially treat patients but individuals with severe complications may be treated by infectious-disease specialists, critical-care specialists, hospitalists, and pulmonologists.
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