Many web sites and groups who are interested in and participate in world health organisations have organized many influenza pandemic awareness weeks in order to  draw in the community and help educate them on the dangers and risks of flu epidemics, such as they swine flu. These influenza pandemic awareness weeks help educate families and [...]

With swine flu turning into a world wide flu epidemic, its very important that we all do our part and practice personal hygiene in order to help prevent the spread of this sometimes deadly virus. If you are starting to feel sick of experience flu symptom, it is very very important to make a trip [...]

The bird flu is a virus which is mostly carried by birds, and spread from bird to bird, but when contaminated poultry is eaten by humans, it there for infects humans and causes them to have symptoms of fever, cough, sore throat, muscle aches, eye infections. Bird flu symptoms can also be associated with Pneumonia, [...]

A total of 5 Asian nations have teamed up for bird flu research. These 5 Asian nations include Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam This is extremely beneficial as Asian countries have suffered the most and Asian is one of the predominant countries that stands out during this bird flu crisis. These five Asian countries [...]

Europe and Asian are two countries which have taken a huge hit from the H5N1 virus. In countries of Europe, preparation has taken a new turn, especially in Poland when it come to vaccines. In fact, 3 polish doctors are actually facing criminal procession after administering trial anti bird flu vaccinations to homeless, and having [...]

AS of current, there are no confirmed cases of bird flu in North America. For the most part, the bird flu has effected countries in and surrounding Europe and Asia. It is still a risk for North America, beings that there are some birds which migrate from Europe and Asia to North America but as [...]

Australia has been extremely precautions in trying to prevent cases of bird flu due to the fact that Australia is close to Africa and Asia in terms of bird migration and it wouldn’t take a lot for an infected bird who has been exposed to the H5N1 virus to migrate towards Australian and infect other [...]

In February of 2006, Nigeria, Africa has reported its first case of bird flu. Are migrating birds to blame, or was it the poultry? On February 5, 2006 the Nigerian authorities informed the health officials of this outbreak of bird flu on a farm in Kaduna. Luckily no human cases have been confirmed although thousands [...]

As of right now, one of the main concerns of health officials all over the world is the mutation of the bird flu. As humans, our bodies are not immune to the bird flu, and currently, the bird flu cannot spread from human to human. Humans can only contact the bird flu virus through direct [...]

The bird flu is a type of influenza virus which is common amongst wild birds, while rarely spreading to humans, there have been reported cases in countries such as Asia. Most of the people that contracted the bird flu virus did so by consuming infected poultry. AS humans, our immune systems are not designed to [...]