H5N1 Australia

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 birds causing bird flu and concerns of the people being infected with the H5N1 virus. Australia has been very precautions in preventing the spread of this virus, they even encountered a bird flu scare involving a man experiencing flu symptoms during a flight and arriving at Sydney Hospital. Luckily the man was not infected with the bird flu and this case ended up being just a scare, but Australia is taking the bird flu very seriously and doing everything in there power to help citizens gain knowledge on how to prevent contracting the bird flu virus. Australia has actively aided in the understanding of how important detection of these viruses can be to preventing the H5N1 virus from mutating and being spreadable from human to human is very important and taking these preventative measures. If you were interested in more information on the subtype h5n1 virus you could check out the web site of WHO (World Health Organization) as they deal with world wide health issues including pandemics and can offer a lot of information on the subtypes H5n1 virus as well as further information on the mutation, prevention, and recommendations of this subtype h5n1 virus.