What are the symptoms for bird flu disease?
Lionel Messi Rulez asked:
And is it possible for cats to suffer from bird flu? I heard several people said so.
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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.
a new study says the flu can also infect cats, and that cats can spread the flu to other cats. The finding raises the possibility that they may eventually spread the flu to other mammals, including humans.
bird flu is a specific type of influenza, thus a person exhibits the common symptoms. one pretty good web site describes them like this:
Most people are familiar with the symptoms of ‘flu’: sudden fever, chills, headache, weakness, malaise, aches and pains and loss of appetite. The fever typically lasts a few days in adults, accompanied by sore throat and cough, painful eye movements, a runny nose, red eyes and tender lymph nodes (‘glands’) in the neck. As these acute symptoms begin to resolve, a dry hacking and protracted cough may remain. There is often an extended period of weakness and tiredness that can take weeks to get over.
bird flu, though, just keeps getting worse. it is doubtful that cats get the same disease — named technically as “H5N1″. cats probably get sick with a different virus.
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Avian influenza (bird flu) is caused by strains of influenza A that normally infect only wild birds (and sometimes pigs). Infections due to these strains have recently been detected in humans.
Human infection with avian influenza H5N1 strains can cause severe respiratory symptoms.
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