Source: CRI

04-05-2007 17:55

Almost all the human cases of bird flu have been people who were directly exposed to infected fowl. They made contact with the virus through the birds’ saliva, nasal secretions and faeces, which become dry, pulverised and are then inhaled.

THE TOLL

As of February 8, the World Health Organisation (WHO) had confirmed 88 deaths from H5N1 out of 165 cases of human infection. Vietnam has the most fatalities, with 42, followed by Indonesia (16), Thailand (14), China (seven), Cambodia (four), Turkey (four) and Iraq (one). This list does not include an Iraqi Kurd whose death was reported by local authorities on Monday.

SYMPTOMS

Bird flu in humans causes symptoms that are like human flu, such as fever, cough, sore throat and muscle aches, conjunctivitis, pneumonia and other severe respiratory diseases.

 

Editor:Du Xiaodan