To: Logical Extinction
I will try to post what I know about the H5N1 outbreakThis is an influenza (virus) not a "parrot fever", right??
To: sistergoldenhair
Parrot fever (psittacosis) is nn infectious disease of parrots and related birds caused by the bacterium Chlamydia psittaci.
It is communicable to humans
H5N1 - is a virus that is spread in fowl, and in rare cases to humans.
Human infection is from contact with the birds or their droppings.
Our concern with H5N1 is that it might infect a person with a human flu virus allowing the two strains to mix.
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