how contagious is type A flu?
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I'd recommend, wearing a mask--while cleaning his/her room..that's what my Mom had to do, while cleaning resident's rooms in a hospital setting--while they were sick .. or even in hospital, to make sure she wouldn't catch anything. \n\nGood luck!\n\nMichelle\n\nPs.. I hear it's pretty contagious..but... I'm not really sure though.
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No. I used to work at the Red Cross. You have to wait 3 full days until symptoms have passed; then you can donate.\nANY contagious illness temporarily disqualifies you.
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AS long as the place is clean it's fine.  With infection you are no longer contagious after 48 hrs of antibiotics.   A month and a half is ample time.  A bit excessive, if you ask me.  Pneumonia isn't as contagious as people think. \nhttp://www.askdrsears.com/html/8/T083800.asp\nS PNEUMONIA CONTAGIOUS?\nYes it is, but it is LESS contagious than most people think. The cold virus that started the cough in the first place is contagious. But the pneumonia part of the illness down in the lungs is far less contagious. People who are exposed to someone with pneumonia may catch the normal cough and cold symptoms of the virus, but usually don't progress to pneumonia. The formation of the pneumonia is not determined by the particular cold virus or bacteria that the person has, but rather by each person's susceptibility in their own lungs.\n\nNo need to worry, everthing should be a ok.
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Go search the news.  It recently appeared to pass from person to person in a single Indonesian family, but apparently that was the 3rd time that that has happened on a very small scale.  That's why they were so concerned so long ago (and still are;) but so far, actual cases of it happening are very rare & isolated, involving a lot of close contact with the sick person.\n\nThey believe that the virus will have to mutate before it is capable of a pandemic, but that hasn't happened yet.
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Influenzavirus A is a genus of a family of viruses called Orthomyxoviridae in virus classification. Influenzavirus A has only one species in it; that species is called "influenza A virus". Influenza A virus causes "avian influenza" (also known as bird flu, avian flu, influenzavirus A flu, type A flu, or genus A flu). It is hosted by birds, but may infect several species of mammals. All known subtypes are endemic in birds. It was first identified in Italy in the early 1900s and is now known to exist worldwide
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All types of infectious conjunctivitis are contagious and can spread from one eye to the other by touching the eyes. A child can first become infected from direct contact with someone who has the infection or something that person has touched, such as a used tissue. The infectious organisms can also spread through coughing and sneezing. In addition, certain viruses spread in the summertime when children swim in contaminated water or share contaminated towels. \n\nAllergic and irritant conjunctivitis are not contagious. \n\nThe incubation time for bacterial conjunctivitis is a few days. In viral cases, it can be up to a week.
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Influenza, from the CDC (link, below):\nAvoid close contact.\nAvoid close contact with people who are sick. When you are sick, keep your distance from others to protect them from getting sick too.\n\nStay home when you are sick.\nIf possible, stay home from work, school, and errands when you are sick. You will help prevent others from catching your illness.\n\nCover your mouth and nose.\nCover your mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing. It may prevent those around you from getting sick.\n\nClean your hands.\nWashing your hands often will help protect you from germs.\n\nAvoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth.\nGerms are often spread when a person touches something that is contaminated with germs and then touches his or her eyes, nose, or mouth.
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Not the smoke directly, but if the person smoking has the flu (even if they are asymptomatic) droplets of saliva and mucus may be expelled when they exhail, spreading the flu.
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Respiratory infections are contagious and are spread by droplets when people cough or sneeze.  You should spray hard surfaces with antibacterial spray and let it air dry and wash your linens in hot water and use bleach or antibacterial cleaner.  Pay attention to door knobs and sink handles as if he is considerate he prob. covers mouth and nose when coughing but would touch door knobs and sink levers with contaminated hands.  \nIt would be highly unlikely to catch his ear infection as how would it get out unless ear is draining.\nGet yourself some zinc lozenges and start taking them as soon as you get symptoms.  It will reduce the duration and severity of cold symptoms by kicking your immune into high gear.  This really works well but only in the first 72 hours of symptoms so get some to have on hand in case.  I always keep them in case.  Once at work some people were out 2 and 3 days with cold virus and I only had mild symptoms for 3 days and they were symptomatic for 2 and 3 weeks.  \nGood Luck
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Its only contagious as long as the person is running a fever. Once the fever has stopped its ok. Besides those with mono are quartined until they are no longer able to spread it. If he had it in January odds are you are safe.
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The good news:\n\n1. The cold is most contagious for about first three days of your symptoms.  \n\n2. Saliva is not an efficient means of spread of most cold viruses. Symptomatic people with colds have no detectable virus in their saliva in 90 percent of cases and kissing is not likely to transmit the common cold.\n\nThe not so good news.\n\nHand-to-hand direct contact plays an important role in disease transmission, so if you are contagious just touching another person maybe enough to transmit it.  \n\nThe bottom line, if you still have the cold symptoms, you may pass it to your partner just by being with them.  Kissing will make little difference. Hope that helps.
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no, there are many different strains of flus out there. Bird flu is just one of them. I copied some facts from the website listed below, there is a lot of useful info there. \n\nIt's hard to say where the various strains of flu come from. The best way to try to prevent it is by washing frequently or using hand sanitizer. \n\nBefore I start work everyday, I sanitize my keyboard, and my telephone in case someone before me was using it and  you know, knock on wood, I have not been sick this year. Maybe a slight cold, but not the flu. \n\nMind you, you may not be fortunate enough to escape it, but keeping your hands and property clean are great precautious measures. Check this info out and go to the website as well ;)\n\nWhat Is the Flu?\nFlu is the common name for influenza (pronounced: in-floo-en-za), a virus that attacks the respiratory system.\n\nThere are three different types of the flu virus. Types A and B can cause widespread flu outbreaks (although type B usually causes less severe symptoms than type A). Type C is fairly rare and causes only mild symptoms.\n\nUsually when you're sick with a virus, your body builds up a defense system by making antibodies against it, so you don't get that particular virus strain again. Unfortunately, flu viruses mutate (change) each year, so you aren't protected from the disease forever. Some years the change in the flu virus is slight, so even if you get the flu it's a mild case because the antibodies give you partial protection. But every 10 years or so the flu virus undergoes a major change, and many people get severe cases. These large-scale outbreaks are called epidemics. If they spread worldwide, they're called pandemics.
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Not a lot other than the obvious methods, since influenza is highly contagious.\n1) Don't touch your eyeballs (easy to infect yourself that way)\n2) Wash hands\n3) Stay away from children\n4) Reduce your daily contact with people\n5) Don't eat in restaurants (see above)\n6) Get a flu shot (all flu sucks, and regular flu can kill you too, not just bird flu)
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The basic answer to this is No because there are various strains of the virus and thus each person could be reinfecting each other and thus make the other person sicker than they really should be.
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NOPE !!!\n\nIT'S MORE SERIOUS THAN THAT !!!\n\nIT CONSISTS OF MENTAL DISORDERS !!!\n\nAND IT IS SOMETHING YOU CAN NOT INDUCE UPON YOURSELF NOR IS IT CONTAGIOUS !!!
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The bird flu is of the type H5N1.  This refers to the protein structure of the virus.  The virus can currently pass from bird to bird and from bird to human.  Bird to human spread is difficult.  Close contact with infected birds is needed, which is why it has been mainly poultry workers who have been infected.\n\nThere is a very high mortality rate in humans who contract H5N1.  However once the virus has infected a human it is unable to spread human to human and is therefore contained.  The worry is that the virus is able to mutate to allow human to human spread.  Humans have no natural immunity to H5N1 so if the virus does mutate there would be a Pandemic.\n\nAuthorities are  now trying to contain the virus to prevent the spread in bird  populations.  If they are successful the virus will be unable  to mutate and unnable to jump  the species barrier.\n\nGood web resources are the WHO and CDC websites and also the UK's Health Protection Agency.
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yes it is contagious, some are mild but many are sever, depending which organ was infected.  \n\nin addition, viarl infection are also contagious.