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What is avian influenza and how does it spread? Avian influenza, also known as bird flu, is a highly contagious viral disease that affects domestic and wild birds. The disease has also been detected, on rare occasions, in mammals, including humans.
3 paź 2023 · Humans can be infected with avian, swine and other influenza viruses. Direct contact with infected animals (through handling, culling, slaughtering or processing) or indirect contact (through environments contaminated with bodily fluids from infected animals) represent a risk for human infection.
26 wrz 2024 · This update covers avian influenza viruses (AIV) with zoonotic potential occurring worldwide, i.e. H5Nx, H7Nx high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) viruses and H3N8, H5Nx, H6N1, H7Nx, H9N2, H10Nx and H11 low pathogenicity avian influenza (LPAI).
Avian influenza, caused by the H5N1 virus, is predominantly considered an animal issue. Entities responsible for investigating and controlling outbreaks emphasise the need for continuous monitoring. Studies suggest the successful crossing of species barriers by rearranged H5N1 sublineages.
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16 maj 2024 · Is it safe to eat animal products such as eggs, milk and meat from areas with outbreaks of avian influenza in animals? Meat products and eggs can be safely consumed, provided they are properly prepared.
Avian influenza is a highly contagious viral disease which occurs primarily in poultry and wild water birds. Wild birds are natural hosts and reservoirs for all types of avian influenza viruses, so play a major role in the evolution, maintenance and spread of these viruses.
1 sie 2024 · Avian influenza virus continues to pose zoonotic, epizootic, and pandemic threats worldwide, as exemplified by the 2020–23 epizootics of re-emerging H5 genotype avian influenza viruses among birds and mammals and the fatal jump to humans of emerging A(H3N8) in early 2023.
