The H5N1 bird flu virus has killed almost 200 people around the world

Ukmedix News can report that the various outbreaks of bird flu in France seems to be continuing and in the latest case 2 wild swans died in the northeast part of France. Medical authorities have confirmed that they died of the H5N1 influenza virus.This is not the first time that wild swans have been infected and have died in France this summer from the very contagious H5N1 bird flu virus. The head of the regional veterinary safety and protection organisation Sylvain Rigaux announced the outbreak to the world press.

The French government are taking the bird flu threat extremely seriously and have raised the national alert level too ‘high’, which means that all domestic birds and poultry in France must be kept in confined spaces so that there is absolutely no way that they can make contact with wild birds. Wild birds are the reason that the virus is so difficult to contain and the reason that the virus spreads from country to country very quickly.

Around the world this year over 30 different nations have experienced outbreaks of the H5N1 bird flu virus. It is extremely important that national governments act quickly to contain the outbreaks so that it does not become a worldwide bird flu problem. The fact that the H5N1 bird flu virus is so contagious and so dangerous is the reason why scientists are very concerned that should it mutate into a form in which humans could become easily infected the world could be facing a serious threat to humanity.

So far the H5N1 bird flu virus has killed almost 200 people around the world. There have been no human cases of the bird flu in Europe or in America but scientists say that it is inevitable that there will be soon. People who live in poor countries in Asia and Africa often live in close proximity with their livestock and poultry and thus the chances of them getting infected from a sick bird are far higher.