Sick people start to suffer from severe respiratory problems...

Only yesterday at Ukmedix News we reported that an 11 year old girl had died from the dreaded bird flu virus in the southern part of Egypt and now it appears that another girl, this time only four years old has been admitted into hospital suffering from the deadly flu. The new case that has been confirmed by the World Health Organization is the 36th case of bird flu in Egypt. Out of these 36 cases fifteen of them so far have proved to be fatal.

The Egyptian government is taking the threat of bird flu extremely seriously and his educating its citizens in ways to prevent the spread of the virus, nevertheless old traditions and habits die hard and it is extremely difficult for people who own chickens and ducks not to maintain contact with them, especially as many of them actually live with the birds in their own houses.
In all the bird flu virus has been found in birds in almost 60 countries and most of these outbreaks concerned wild birds migrating through the country and then infecting the local poultry. At present the official figures from the World Health Organization say that the H5N1 bird flu virus has killed 190 people out of the 312 people who have been infected with it since the first outbreaks were recorded in China.

In fact people have died from the bird flu virus in China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Egypt, Iraq, Laos, Nigeria and Turkey with Indonesia and Vietnam suffering the most. The bird flu virus has yet to kill anyone in Europe.

People who get the H5N1 bird flu virus start with typical flu like symptoms which include things like high temperature, a sore throat and general lethargy. Later on when the flu virus really takes hold the sick people start to suffer from severe respiratory problems and pneumonia that can eventually lead to death.