H5N1 virus

A Chinese expert of respiratory disease believed that the H5N1 virus of bird flu is showing signs of change by killing people more easily if treatment is not administered early enough Zhong Nanshan said to reporters in Beijing the need to remain vigilant, especially when human cases of H5N1 appear when seasonal epidemics of influenza is at its highest. "When bird flu is present and that the human influenza appears, it increases the chances that the bird flu turns into a human flu. We will be very careful and very cautious in March," said Zhong, People who have died of avian flu last year and this year were too poor to seek treatment. If you have a lot of fever and pneumonia, you should check quickly to make you care." If the H5N1 virus that has infected 368 people worldwide since 2003, its mortality rate is very high, since it has killed 234 of them. Experts fear that a mutation that would enable the transmission of the disease from one human to another does not cause a pandemic that could kill millions of people.