Amid the Corona, epidemic another warning has been issued against the bird flu breakout virus in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and Himachal Pradesh.
Background
- Recently, along with Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, Kerala has witnessed hundreds of bird deaths in the last few days.
- The sample was investigated by the National Institute of High-Security Animal Diseases of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Bhopal, when several foreign migratory birds died at the international Ramsar Wetland Pong Dam in Kangra, Himachal Pradesh. The findings of the bird flu virus H5N1 have been confirmed by the National Institute of High-Security Animal Disease in its findings.
- Bird flu has been confirmed by the National Institute of High-Security Animal Diseases in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh when samples are sent for the investigation of the deaths of several crows.
- Cases of bird flu have been confirmed in Alappuzha and Kottayam districts in Kerala.
- With this, bird flu has also been expressed in the deaths of 53 birds including duck-tethari-heron in Junagadh, Gujarat.
What is bird flu?
- Avian influenza is known as bird flu. These dangerous viral infections affect humans and birds more.
- Avian influenza was first reported from Hong Kong in 1997.
- The virus affects many species of domesticated and wild birds, including birds used as food, such as chickens, turkeys, quail, guinea fowl, etc.
- The most influential bird flu virus is H5N1, which can also kill humans and birds. H5N1 virus proves particularly fatal for poultry farming.
- The virus is commonly found in birds, but it can also infect other mammals, including humans. When a person comes in contact with infected chickens or other infected birds, he too becomes infected with the disease.
Symptoms of Bird Flu:
- Bird flu symptoms are similar to the common flu, but there are more problems in breathing and a feeling of vomiting. Some of the common symptoms are as follows.
- Fever and headache remain consistent.
- phlegm and runny nose.
- swelling in the throat and muscle pain,
- diarrhoea and vomiting, problems in breathing, breathlessness, pneumonia.
- of conjunctivitis in the eye due to bird flu.
Treatment of bird flu breakout:
- Stay away from infected birds especially birds killed by the infection.
- If the infection of bird flu is spread, avoid using birds meat as food.
- Antiviral claims for the treatment of bird flu have used oseltamivir, Tamiflu and zanamivir.
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