AvianBirdsFlu.com: key facts about Avian Influenza commonly called Bird Flu that created world health crises rivaled only by Plague and HIV.
Home Page News Virus Pandemic Vaccine Sympotms Links H5N1 Strain Forum	Bird flu: 10 facts about a future pandemic The World Health Organization announced 10 facts, which are necessary to know about a flu pandemic. 1. The bird flu virus affects other living beings including human beings rather seldom. However, it’s capable of mutation –in this case it stops being the bird flu virus and turns into a new “human” flu virus. Flu pandemics were earlier caused by the viruses, which suffered such metamorphoses. 2. Flu pandemics are seldom but constantly recurring event. They are caused by new viruses, against which people have not developed immunity yet. That’s why pandemics are so dangerous and lethal. 3. The world can be on the verge of a new pandemic. It starts if a new mutation of the virus, causing the bird flu, happens. 4. No country in the world can feel safe from the pandemic. Even closing of borders is not able to prevent the spread of the disease. Earlier a pandemic covered the world during 6-9 months, now it has to take no more than three months because of better development of mass communications. 5. If the pandemic begins, a greater part of the Earth population will get seriously ill. Only few countries have necessary infrastructure (for example sufficient hospital accommodation) and drug stocks, required to administer the sick. 6. The majority of the countries in the world will face a serious shortage of drugs and vaccines. 7. The flu pandemic will lead to a heavy mortality. The World Health Organization considers on the base of a preliminary estimate that the pandemic will kill 2 to 7.4 million people. It’s impossible to make an accurate forecast until the killer-virus appears and it is completely clear how it affects a human organism. 8. The pandemic will cause a considerable economic damage, direct as well as indirect. The pandemic can result in serious trouble in the power industry, transport and communications industry. 9. All the countries of the world have to prepare to the pandemic. 10. The World Health Organization will inform, when the mutation of the virus, capable of transmitting not from a bird to a human being, but in a human-to-human way, happens.