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Coach
The whole SOUTHEND 1st team have been struck down by this BIRD FLU academic. Looks like it takes at least a month to recover!!!
Here is some information about the bird flu:
WHAT IS IT: A form of influenza believed to strike all birds, though domestic poultry are believed especially prone to it. It also has jumped to humans, though no human-to-human transmission has been reported.
WHERE IS IT: England (Southend) Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan have reported outbreaks in birds in recent weeks. Thailand and Vietnam have reported human cases. Bird flu was first reported in humans in Hong Kong in 1997. Since then, it's popped up mostly in Asia, although the Netherlands reported an outbreak, including human cases, in 2003.
HOW MANY PEOPLE AFFECTED: The disease has killed seven people. Vietnam has confirmed six human cases, all of whom have died. Thailand has confirmed three cases, including one death.
HOW IT'S PASSED: Infected birds spread the virus through saliva, faeces, and nasal secretions.
So far, only humans with direct contact with sick birds have caught the disease. But scientists are worried that bird flu could link with regular human influenza, mutate, and become a deadly new virus and trigger a pandemic.
SYMPTOMS IN BIRDS: Loss of appetite, ruffled feathers, fever, weakness, diarrhoea, excessive thirst, swelling. If the strain is virulent, mortality rate can range between 50 per cent to 100 per cent.
SYMPTOMS IN HUMANS: Fever, cough, sore throat, muscle aches, eye infections, pneumonia, acute respiratory distress, viral pneumonia.
APRIL FOOLS
Here is some information about the bird flu:
WHAT IS IT: A form of influenza believed to strike all birds, though domestic poultry are believed especially prone to it. It also has jumped to humans, though no human-to-human transmission has been reported.
WHERE IS IT: England (Southend) Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan have reported outbreaks in birds in recent weeks. Thailand and Vietnam have reported human cases. Bird flu was first reported in humans in Hong Kong in 1997. Since then, it's popped up mostly in Asia, although the Netherlands reported an outbreak, including human cases, in 2003.
HOW MANY PEOPLE AFFECTED: The disease has killed seven people. Vietnam has confirmed six human cases, all of whom have died. Thailand has confirmed three cases, including one death.
HOW IT'S PASSED: Infected birds spread the virus through saliva, faeces, and nasal secretions.
So far, only humans with direct contact with sick birds have caught the disease. But scientists are worried that bird flu could link with regular human influenza, mutate, and become a deadly new virus and trigger a pandemic.
SYMPTOMS IN BIRDS: Loss of appetite, ruffled feathers, fever, weakness, diarrhoea, excessive thirst, swelling. If the strain is virulent, mortality rate can range between 50 per cent to 100 per cent.
SYMPTOMS IN HUMANS: Fever, cough, sore throat, muscle aches, eye infections, pneumonia, acute respiratory distress, viral pneumonia.
APRIL FOOLS
