avian flu
Poultry contagion threat
Avian flu is influenza that primarily infects birds, especially poultry.
Certain strains can spread to humans through contact with infected birds, causing severe illness and raising fears of pandemic outbreaks: Health officials are monitoring avian flu cases in commercial chicken farms.
Also called bird flu.
- poultryBirds raised for food
- chicken farmFacility for raising poultry
- factory farmingIntensive livestock production system
- zoonosisAnimal-to-human disease transmission
- outbreakSudden eruption of trouble
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- animal diseasesrabies, distemper, tuberculosis, mange, anthrax
- Animal Pathogensrabies virus, parvovirus, kennel cough, heartworm
- Animal Virusesrabies, parvovirus, parvo, distemper, canine distemper
- infectionsviral infection, bacterial infection, fungal infection, parasitic infection, bacteremia
- infectious diseasescholera, anthrax, malaria, measles, hepatitis
- epidemicsepidemic, pandemic, outbreak, disease, Black Death
disease threat level
avian flugood health
Absence of illness
wellness · immunity · disease resistance · robust health · clean bill of health
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