Influenza Outbreak
Attack of The Virus
Throughout the human lives, there have been too many attacks
of viruses on humans. And fortunately enough, every time this
happened, human beings as a species have survived the attack.
Back in the year 1930, the world came under the attack of
he plague; this is a virus spread by rats and he fleas that
feed on their blood. This outbreak had killed millions of
people during then.
The Past Influenza Outbreaks
Humans have also fought against influenza outbreaks in the
past. There was the Spanish flu in 1918, which then followed
by the Asian Flu in 1957 and the Hong Kong Flu in 1968 which
had also created havoc throughout the world. More than 20
million of people were killed during these outbreaks through
out the world!
And not long ago, the world once again came up face to face
with disaster. This time the influenza outbreak threat came
from the Avian flu or the Bird flu as it is more commonly
known. The influenza outbreak had been caused by the influenza
subtype H5N1 which has already killed a number of people.
This type of influenza outbreak happened because the Asians
consume the meat of broiler birds with which they live in
close proximity. The people who tended to them had contact
with their excreta and then touched some or other mucus of
their body, such as eyes, nose, mouth, genitalia and hence
caught the disease.
The bird flu was not supposed to have crossed over to another
species. Animal diseases and viruses do not usually affect
humans, and/or other species. Somewhere along the way, this
virus has mutated enough to be absorbed in the human blood
and develop into the full blown avian flu in humans. Since
the science was not prepared for it, there had been some deaths.
However, now there is a vaccine which is recommended to one
and all, lest they fall prey to the avian flu and die.
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