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Symptoms Of Bird Flu
How do you know if you have bird flu?
In the HongKong outbreak in 1997, patients had symptoms of fever, sore throat, cough and, in some fatal cases, severe respiratory distress secondary to viral pneumonia. Were affected previously healthy adults and children, and some people with chronic medical conditions.
Since then, the tests for all strains of flu virus that affects animals and humans are rapid and reliable. Many laboratories worldwide network of WHO flu have high security facilities and reagents as well as considerable experience, to carry out these tests.
It also offers Rapid bedside tests for the diagnosis of human influenza, although such tests lack the precision of the most comprehensive analysis currently required to understand the most recent cases and determine whether human infection is spreading, either directly from birds or from humans. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Antiviral drugs, circulating virus, cough, from birds or from humans, severe respiratory distress, sore throat | 
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