What are the signs of bird flu?
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"Symptoms of avian influenza in humans have ranged from typical human influenza-like symptoms (e.g., fever, cough, sore throat, and muscle aches) to eye infections, pneumonia, severe respiratory diseases (such as acute respiratory distress), and other severe and life-threatening complications. The symptoms of avian influenza may depend on which virus caused the infection."
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I as a Christian believe that the "bird flu" is one of the many, many signs yet to come which means that the end is drawing near. Yes, the "bird flu" is a sign of a plague that could kill many and indeed spread throughout the world if a cure is not soon to be found. Plagues are often man made I believe, maybe not all but a good many. There are many signs still to come in Revelations, but noone can pinpoint the exact day,time, or even year that the Lord will return. Just know this, if you are saved then you will not be left behind, God will take you with him like all the other believers.
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In people, bird flu usually begins much like conventional influenza, with fever, cough, sore throat and muscle aches, but bird flu can lead to life-threatening complications.
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I assume you're referring to the bird flu that's currently spreading through western europe. It's important that you remember that very few birds can carry the disease; however, one of the ways that the disease spreads to humans is by contact with the feathers. The most likely ways of a human contracting the virus, though, are constant contact with the faeces of birds, as well as regular contact with their beaks. Of course, since birds preen their feathers using their beaks, it is possible that the virus could survive for a short time on the feathers, and so could be passed onto humans. If you're in any doubt as to whether you may have contracted the disease, you should go to a doctor immediately. Bird flu usually manifests itself first in the form of a minor eye infection, but can spread through the body quickly depending on the strain.\n\nIn the UK, the deadly H5N1 strain has only been confirmed to date in a single dead swan, and there are no confirmed cases of it being passed on to humans in the UK.\n\nBreeds of birds you should be especially careful with are swans, geese and ducks, as they are particularly susceptible to it and may carry it for several weeks without showing any symptoms whatsoever. Also, as they are migratory birds the risk of them carrying it from another country are greatly increased.\n\nAll that said, I wouldn't be too concerned about it; as long as you're careful and you're not in regular physical contact with birds you should be alright.\n\nAlex
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Sudden onset of fever (over 38 degrees C /100 degrees F) plus one or more of the following.\nSore throat\nBody aches\nChills\nHeadache\nFatigue\nDry cough\n\nSee a doctor as soon as symptoms start.\ntry http://www.flupill.com
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bird flu, or other disease...could have been sniped out of the sky as well by a coopers hawk or other bird of prey...\nBut if you are interested in bird signs aka augurie try these sites
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Symptoms of food poisoning are pretty much the same no matter what kind of food it is.\n\n\nSymptoms of food poisoning can range from mild headache to severe flu-like symptoms. The most common signs and symptoms are nausea, stomach cramps, diarrhea, fever, chills, and vomiting. A person with food poisoning may have any combination of these symptoms depending on the cause or the agent involved. The illness may begin from one to 72 hours after eating the food. If you or any of your family suspect food poisoning, you should seek medical aid and report the poisoning to your local health unit.
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You should probably check the little bit of paper that comes in every tampon box.  Some that I have found are:\n-feeling ill, headache, muscular pains\n-fever\n-vomiting and diarrhoea\n-fainting, dizziness, weakness, confusion\n-sunburn-like rash\n\nTo me a lot of these symptoms sound very similar to the flu, so if you have any of them I wouldn't panic but get checked out asap.
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Well the first sign of a HIV infection will be what might seem to be a very bad flu. This is what they call the seroconversion. I suggest reading here. it has all the up  to date news on hiv and its searchable.\nhttp://myhivstory.com\n\nemail the webmaster he will more than answer any questions
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no.....wait wait wait...do you live in hong kong by any chance? if so, it could be that bird flu thing.
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Mild fever, backache, headache, sore throat, a rash (red spots) and blisters filled with fluid. These are the common symptoms of chicken pox. \n\nBefore the typical rash appears, patients often develop a fever, headache, swollen glands and other flu like symptoms.\n\nThe scabs sure do itch a lot.\n\nIf you feel a burning sensation you should tell your doctor about it.\n\nGet well soon.
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Please note:  these symptoms are for Hepatitis B.  Since you didn't specify, this is the one I have selected for you:\nJaundice - yellowing of skin and whites of the eyes.  Jaundice usually appears after other symptoms have started to go away. \nExtreme tiredness \nMild fever \nHeadache \nLoss of appetite \nNausea\nVomiting\nConstant discomfort on the right side of the abdomen under the rib cage, where the liver is located, usually made worse when you are jarred or overwork yourself \nDiarrhea or constipation\nMuscle aches \nJoint pain \nSkin rash
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The flu virus family is a big one. Some are characteristically bird flus, others are swine flus, others are human flus, ...\n\nThere's a considerable similarity amongst them (a family, right!)  and under some circumstances, a bird flu can swap bits with a pig flu or a human flu, producing a new variant. It's likely that this happens most often in SE Asia where duck ponds, people (including children) and pigs all live in very close quarters. This is probably the way the major flu pandemics (remember the Hong Kong flu?) in humans get started. \n\nUsually, bird flus don't bother people or pigs, and vice versa. But sometimes, there's enough of a crossover that a bird flu acquires the ability to infect people and spread easily. It happened in 1918, and that flu epidemic spread rapidly and killed something on the order of 40 or 50 million around the world in about 18 months. We know it was a bird type flu because the virus has been reconstructed in a research lab. These guys went looking for folks who'd died from that flu in the Arctic North and been buried in the permafrost. It took more than a decade, but it's recently become clear this flu, the 'Spanish flu', was a bird type flu. \n\nin the case of the current avian flu, it's not yet (if it ever will) acquired the ability to spread easily from human to human. It seems that you must be in close contact with infected birds to have much of a chance of catching it. But if you do, it's very dangerous. The mortality reat in the first few hundred reported cases was something like 50% and that's very very high. More recent cases in Europe seem to have a lower mortality rate, but that may primarily be an artifact of better care (eg, learning from prior cases). \n\nThere is little understanding of what changes would be required for this bird flu variant to become human infectious. There has been some speculation that it may be a few as two different gene changes. And perhaps the change(s) will never happen; no one has much of a real idea about the chances. And it's possible that, if it becomes infectious in humans, it will lose the lethality it currently has in humans. Or not, which is the scary case. \n\nTreatment for flu viruses is traditionally best via vaccine. However, since flu viruses change regularly and the vaccines are typically variant specific, it hasn't been possible to get it precisely right. Which variant will be the major issue in the coming flu season is hard to predict, but having guessed, it takes quite a while to produce the vaccine. It's a bit of a guess and isn't always gotten right. The avian flu is no different. \n\nA vaccine against the current variant would be pointless for humans, as it doesn't infect us very well. And if the virus changes to become infectious in humans, we don't really know how to develop a vaccine against a virus variant we haven't yet seen. And after we see it, it will take some months to produce the vaccine for it. \n\nWhat are the chances of drug treatment against a human infective variant of this avian flu? Not good, just as there aren't very good drugs against any virus infection. We have one or two drugs, of which Tamiflu is thought to be the best of a not very good lot. Governments have begun stockpiling it, against possible need. \n\n======\n\npossibilities\n\n1) The virus never acquires the ability to infect humans easily and to be highly contagious. If so, the current plague among birds will eventually burn itself out and there won't be much further issue. \n\n2) The virus will never acquire the ability to be highly contagious, but will learn to infect people much better than it can manage now and will retain its lethality. More people will die before the pandemic among birds finally burns out. Death toll might be in the thousands or hundreds of thousands, as compared with hundreds to date. it think this unlikely as the flu viruses have all had excellent c
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The Bird Flu is the H5N1 flu virus. Unfortunately, you cannot tell the difference if you have the regular flu or the Bird Flu because their symptoms are quite the same, except that the Bird Flu results in death after a week or so. Be very careful, it's dangerous and is spreading accross the world at an alarming pace.
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First symptoms of stomach flu.  Get some rest.
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You do not have bird flu, because if you did, you would not be sitting here typing.  Bird Flu is a very aggressive virus. It will take you down like a buffalo full of twenty-odd buckshot.
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(m)\n\nThe symptoms of bird flu (Avian influenza) are\nSore throat\nCough\nFever\nPneumonia\nRespiratory distress\nRespiratory failure\nLife threatening complications\nThe symptoms of bird flu can depend on which virus caused the infection. If you have flu like symptoms the chances of you having Bird flu are very very very very small. Bird flu is a virus that primarily affects birds. Humans have caught the disease but only in a few very rare cases in the Far East and in Turkey. All people who have caught bird flu had close contact with infected birds.