Avian flu has a new strain

• April 27, 2024

The world population is alert after the discovery of a new strain of the virus of bird flu ; after the migrations of wild birds took the disease to countries free of it. The dangerous variant appeared in Asia and could spread throughout the continent and put the population at risk.

According to data from United Nations Fund for Food and Agriculture (FAO), the mutant strain H5N1-2.3.2.1. resist the vaccinations existing and spreads in China and Vietnam; so he calls for greater vigilance to control the buds in Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia and for the Korean peninsula and Japan.

The alarm started when a 6-year-old Cambodian girl died because of the bird flu . With this, Vietnam suspended the campaign vaccination for poultry this year, because the country has been invaded by the virus.

The United Nations (UN) reported that 330 people have died since the appearance of suffering .

What is bird flu?

Is a disease infectious virus, which affects the birds Y mammals . It is part of the genre Influenza virus A of the family Orthomyxoviridae and they are segmented RNA viruses.

The also known as chicken flu can be contagious through direct contact with secretions of infected birds; food, water and contaminated equipment.

For its treatment there is a vaccine and antiviral treatments that stop the virus once contracted, as they prevent its spread in the body.