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What happens if you get bird flu?
Bird flu in humans can cause a range of serious and potentially fatal complications, including: eye infections. pneumonia, including viral pneumonia. acute respiratory distress.
Can bird flu go to humans?
Although avian (bird) influenza (flu) A viruses usually do not infect people, there have been some rare cases of human infection with these viruses. Illness in humans from bird flu virus infections have ranged in severity from no symptoms or mild illness to severe disease that resulted in death.
How do you treat bird flu?
Is There a Treatment for Bird Flu? The flu drugs oseltamivir (Tamiflu), peramivir (Rapivab), or zanamivir (Relenza) may help treat bird flu in people, although more studies are needed. These drugs must be given soon after symptoms appear.
Can I get bird flu from eating chicken?
You cannot get bird flu from eating fully cooked chicken, turkey, or duck, because heat kills the virus. In a few cases, bird flu was passed from one person to another person, not from a bird to a person. But this was very rare.
Should you wash chicken with lemon juice?
Washing raw poultry in a diluted lemon juice or vinegar solution is an inefficient method for removing pathogens and results in pathogens both in the wash water and on the chicken, increasing the risk for cross contamination and potential foodborne illness.
Is H7N9 a bird flu?
H7N9 is considered a bird flu, but it has affected some humans. This can be dangerous, because humans have no immunity to bird flu. H7N9 is an avian, or bird, flu virus. The virus normally affects poultry birds, but it has mutated so that it can affect humans too.
What is bird flu and what are the symptoms?
Bird flu, avian influenza, is a type of flu in birds that can infect humans. Even though it happens rarely, bird flu symptoms can range from mild illness to serious and fatal conditions. What is bird flu?
Can humans get Avian Flu from birds?
Although avian influenza A viruses usually do not infect people, rare cases of human infection with these viruses have been reported. Infected birds shed avian influenza virus in their saliva, mucous and feces. Human infections with bird flu viruses can happen when enough virus gets into a person’s eyes, nose or mouth, or is inhaled.
What do we know about the Asian H7N9 virus?
Asian H7N9 viruses continue to circulate in poultry in China. Most reported patients with H7N9 virus infection have had severe respiratory illness (e.g., pneumonia). Rare instances of limited person-to-person spread of this virus have been identified in China, but there is no evidence of sustained person-to-person spread.