Flu Prevention And The Gym Member Health officials' warning this month of a potentially harsh flu season should be a red flag to avid aerobic-bunnies and gym-jocks alike The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) warn that the flu is transmitted when flu virus in the air is inhaled after an infected person coughs, sneezes, or speaks Transmission also occurs when a person touches a surface that has flu virus on it and then touches his or her nose or mouth ...

Avian Influenza - 5 Common Myths Exploded Bird flu or avian influenza is the latest health scare in Asia It is widely believed that the avian influenza would soon attain epidemic proportions Are these fears genuine? Read on and find out the truth behind the common myths doing rounds about the avian flu Myth 1 Bird flu is a kind of human influenza Fact Avian influenza is a contagious disease of animals caused by viruses that normally infect only birds and sometimes pigs Avian influenza viruses are ...

Bird Flu Virus Bird Flu Virus The recent increase in bird flu virus warnings makes all of us wonder what are the real causes of bird flu? The symptoms of bird flu virus are similar to other flu like illnesses but with much more severity The avian bird flu virus is caused by avian influenza viruses, which occur naturally among birds The avian (bird) flu is a dangerous virus that gets developed inside the intestines of wild birds The biggest fear occured around Thanksgiving when millions worried about ...

The Virus That Causes Bird Flu The virus that causes bird flu appears to be versatile and resilient Scientists are working on a new vaccine that would be effective against the new strain of the virus that causes Bird flu There are different subtypes and strains of the virus that causes bird flu, and some cause more severe disease than others Results of the examinations for the H5N1 virus that causes bird flu are be announced later on Sunday, officials said Certainly the virus that causes bird ...

Why We Should Be Worried About The Bird Flu Is the Bird Flu Virus for real? Or is it something the media has blown up once again Does the bird flu virus really possess a threat to us humans? The bird flu virus is the current virus that has been scaring people away from eating at KFC People might think that the bird flu virus might cause them to die What the media is doing, is only trying to scare a lot of people from the bird ...

Why A Bird Flu Pandemic Will Be Such A World Catastrophe We are moving closer every day to a world influenza pandemic New cases of bird flu are being discovered in more countries 88 people worldwide since 2003, who have had close contact with infected birds have died Scientists fear that when the bird flu virus mutates or mixes with normal influenza viruses then it will be in a form that passes easily from person to person The 1918 influenza that killed 40-50 million people world ...

How The Bird Flu Could Turn Into A Pandemic Should we be worried that the bird flu could turn into a pandemic? Worldwide only 165 people have been infected and about 88 have died The people who became infected had close contact with infected birds Currently it is not spread by human-to-human transmission But scientists fear that it will turn into a form that can be easily spread person to person or mix with normal flu viruses to provide that human transmission When that happens, the chances ...

Bird Flu--worst-case Scenario There has been a lot of buzz about bird flu or the avian influenza and how it could become a global pandemic What would a pandemic really mean? The federal government just launched a 7 billion dollar program to help the prevention and out break of a bird flu pandemic There have only been 88 deaths from avian flu worldwide since 2003 Health experts have not yet seen evidence of human to human transmission So what does it mean? And why is everyone so ...

Bird Flu Pandemic Potential Major Problems As the bird flu continues to spread to other countries around the world, more officials are starting to take notice and plan for a potential pandemic Even though state and local governments have pandemic contingency plans in place and some have started practice drills, a number of problems are already cropping up Monitoring new cases of bird flu in 3rd world countries Many don't have the staff or money for properly identifying new cases and containing them Educating local people about bird ...

How Humans Contract Bird Flu People all over the world have been going nuts for the very few people that the bird flu virus has killed The media is one of the reasons why people have been going nuts for the very few deaths the bird flu has caused However maybe the media is just serving as an early warning device to what could be a much worse situation The media maybe has gotten paranoid of the fear of previous influenza virus spread that has caused an ...