西瓜视频东北大秧歌:有谁能帮忙提供一下有关于预防禽流感或与禽流感有关的英文资料

What is Bird Flu?
　　Here are some key questions and facts about bird flu.
　　WHAT IS BIRD FLU?
　　* Avian influenza is an infectious disease of birds caused by strains of the influenza virus. The disease, which was first identified in Italy more than 100 years ago, occurs worldwide.
　　* All birds are thought to be susceptible to infection with avian influenza, though some species are more resistant than others.
　　* Infection causes a wide spectrum of symptoms in birds, ranging from mild illness to a highly contagious and rapidly fatal disease resulting in severe epidemics. The latter is known as "highly pathogenic avian influenza". This form is characterized by sudden onset, severe illness, and rapid death, with a mortality that can approach 100 percent.
　　* Fifteen sub-types of influenza virus are known to infect birds, thus providing an extensive reservoir of influenza viruses potentially circulating in bird populations.
　　IS BIRD FLU HARMFUL TO HUMANS?
　　* Human fatalities from avian influenza were unknown before 1997, when six people in Hong Kong died after being infected with the H5N1 strain of the disease.
　　But the destruction of Hong Kong's entire poultry population -- around 1.5 million birds -- within three days, reduced opportunities for further direct transmission to humans, and may have averted a pandemic.
　　* In April 2003, a Dutch veterinarian who had been working on a farm infected with bird flu became ill with an H7 strain of the disease and died of pneumonia. The vet did not take medication against avian and human flu.
　　HUMAN CASUALTIES FROM BIRD FLU
　　* 37 Vietnamese have died since late 2003. The disease has also killed 12 Thais and four Cambodians.
　　COULD BIRD FLU BECOME A HUMAN EPIDEMIC?
　　* Although avian flu is very infectious in birds, it does not spread easily among humans. There is a danger, however, that an avian virus mixes with a human one and forms a new disease.
　　* The new virus could share genetic material from both viruses, being highly infectious like human flu and dangerously fatal like the avian variety.
　　* According to a WHO report earlier in May, the spate of human bird flu cases in Vietnam this year suggested the deadly virus may be mutating in ways that are making it more capable of being passed between humans.
　　-- The finding points to the greatest fear of health experts that the H5N1 virus could unleash a pandemic and kill millions around the globe if ever it gained the ability to be transmitted among humans efficiently.
　　* New influenza strains have caused pandemics, most recently in 1956-1957 and 1967-1968, killing a combined 4.5 million people

　　Bird flu pandemic ‘unlikely’

　　THE expanding outbreak of bird flu in Asia is “nowhere close” to being declared a pandemic, international health experts said.

　　“I think it’s very important at this stage that we remain calm about worst-case scenarios,” Mike Ryan, the WHO’s chief of global epidemic response, said at an international emergency meeting in Rome on Wednesday.

　　“What we’re dealing with at the moment is small clusters of cases associated with exposure to poultry,” Ryan told reporters.

　　Meanwhile, China sought to coordinate efforts to curb bird flu across its vast territory as it confirmed a previous suspected bird flu outbreak in Chenggong County in Yunnan Province. No person has been reported to have contracted the disease so far.

　　The Agriculture Ministry announced Wednesday two more areas where suspected outbreaks of bird flu had been found.

　　The two areas are Guandu District in Kunming, Yunnan’s capital city, and Gaolan County in Gansu Province, northwest China.

　　As soon as the suspected cases were detected, local governments began slaughtering chickens and implementing compulsory vaccinations.

　　Health Ministry spokesman Mao Qun’an said checkups had been performed on 588 people who had close contact with infected poultry, and none had the disease, the China Daily newspaper said Wednesday.

　　With suspected poultry cases in areas thousands of kilometers apart, the central government was seeking a coordinated, national response.

　　A new National Bird Flu Prevention Headquarters has opened in Beijing to oversee regional efforts to kill all sick birds and keep a close watch on people who handled them.

　　Authorities have been killing and inocculating poultry near suspected outbreaks.

　　Hundreds of thousands of birds have been slaughtered and the government is paying compensation to farmers.

　　New regulations stipulate that new poultry dwellings must be built at least 500 meters from any residence, the Beijing Youth Daily said. It was not clear when the rules would take effect or how they would be enforced in a country where many farm families raise chickens in their yards.

　　The Ministry of Railways said birds without quarantine certificates would not be allowed on trains, aircraft or ships entering China must undergo inspection, Xinhua News Agency reported.

　　The western metropolis of Chongqing has banned the transport of poultry on open trucks and Shanghai has been scrubbing pigeon droppings from public plazas.

　　Outside Beijing, the Badaling Safari Park has stopped feeding live chickens to lions and tigers, giving them beef instead, Xinhua said.

　　About 10 Asian countries and regions were affected by the bird flu virus, with the death toll from the disease rising to around 14. Tens of thousands of chickens have been killed to keep the disease from spreading.

　　On Tuesday, Peter Cordingley, spokesman for the WHO Western Pacific Regional office, said in an interview with Xinhua that Asian countries afflicted with bird flu should change their lifestyle and ways of breeding chickens to prevent and control the virus.

　　These countries should adopt a more healthy and cautious way in raising and selling chickens, he said.

　　He said it was quite common in Asia for farmers to live close to chickens and sell live chickens on the market. This proximity greatly raised the possibility for humans to be infected with bird flu, he said.

　　太多了，这里粘贴不下啊！你只要在搜索中打入“bird flu"就会搜到好多相关信息。

第一，注意饮食卫生。食用禽蛋、禽肉要彻底煮熟，禽蛋表面的粪便应当洗净，加工保存这类食物要生熟分开。第二，避免接触水禽、候鸟等易于携带禽流感病毒的动物。第三，如果条件允许，可以接种流感疫苗。健康的成年人和青少年可以接种减毒活疫苗，老年人、婴幼儿、孕妇和慢性病患者可以接种流感灭活疫苗。第四，如果出现发热、头痛、鼻塞、咳嗽、全身不适等症状，患者应当戴上口罩，立即到医院就医。就诊时，务必告诉医生自己是否到过禽流感疫区、是否接触过病禽等情况，并在医生指导下治疗和用药。