Go immediately to a hospital emergency room. However, this is an extremely rare disease so you are very unlikely to have it.

H5N1 is the name of the virus that causes Avian "Bird" Flu. It is very rare among humans and transmission from human to human is still an almost non-existent occurrence and then in very few locations of the world. In some developing countries, where it is common to have free roaming poultry that even are allowed to roost and live inside homes, the disease is occurring in humans, but it is still very rare. There has never been a case of Avian Flu in the US either in animals or in birds, and the UK has been declared free of this virus after a onetime outbreak among birds in the past.

The viral disease is very aggressive and rapidly debilitates anyone who has become infected. They would need immediate medical care. Even with the most prompt and advanced care, however, approximately 60% of humans who have had the disease have died.

For the 2012 -2013 Flu Season in the Northern Hemisphere, the H1N1 vaccine is included in the "regular" seasonal flu shot that is trivalent (contains vaccine for three different types of flu). The contents are for the most part the same as listed in the answer below. Also see the related links and related questions sections below for some additional in formation.

Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine is formulated to contain 15 mcg HA per 0.5 mL dose of influenza A/California/7/2009 (H1N1)v-like virus.

The single-dose formulation is preservative-free; thimerosal, a mercury derivative, is not used in the manufacturing process for this formulation. The multi-dose formulation contains thimerosal, added as a preservative; each 0.5 mL dose contains 24.5 mcg of mercury.

A single 0.5 mL dose of Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine contains sodium chloride (4.1 mg), monobasic sodium phosphate (80 mcg), dibasic sodium phosphate (300 mcg), monobasic potassium phosphate (20 mcg), potassium chloride (20 mcg), and calcium chloride (1.5 mcg). From the manufacturing process, each dose may also contain residual amounts of sodium taurodeoxycholate (≤ 10 ppm), ovalbumin (≤ 1 mcg), neomycin sulfate (≤ 0.2 picograms [pg]), polymyxin B (≤ 0.03 pg), and beta-propiolactone (< 25 nanograms).

The rubber tip cap and plunger used for the preservative-free, single-dose syringes and the rubber stoppers used for the multi-dose vial contain no latex.

A relatively low number of people have died from Avian flu. It is transmitted only from bird to human, not from person to person, unlike the Swine flu that is a very rapidly spreading virus from person to person with over 57 million cases in the US alone. The death rate for swine flu is below that of the seasonal flu. Although the number of cases of Avian flu in humans is low so far, the mortality rate from the H5N1 Avian flu is approximately 50%, it is an extremely deadly virus. Luckily so far the case numbers are still low, especially in the Western Hemisphere.

That is the story that began circulating in July 2006. See the article below in the links section for more information. The DJ, DJ Lewis, from Abijan on Africa's Ivory Coast, supposedly said that he did start the dance, and is credited with the following quotes:

"People will have to dance it, they have no choice!

"I am telling people to dance it to chase away their fears, and eat more chicken."

"I created the dance to bring happiness to the hearts of Africans, and to chase away fear, the fear of eating chicken" he told the BBC.

"If we kill all our chickens and poultry, our cousins in the village will become poor."

"So I created the bird flu dance to put joy back into our hearts."

People involved in epidemiology have continued to be concerned about the Avian Flu because it has such a high mortality rate. In humans, the mortality rate is as high as 50%. Luckily, it is not spread from human to human. It has also been a concern during the H1N1/09 Pandemic Swine Flu because of the potential for extremely high death rates if the Avian Flu would mutate with the Swine Flu to make it able to be passed easily from human to human like the pandemic flu does. This was of special concern since some of the genetic material in this novel swine flu is derived from Avian Flu viruses.

Spanish flu is viral.

None. It has not been in the US so far.

All viruses follow the same basic steps referred to as the lytic cycle.

First the Flu, or Swine Flu in this case, enters the body through close contact with an infected person (nose, mouth, eyes or breaks in the skin)

LYTIC CYCLE:

* Step 1-A virus attaches to a host cell. * Step 2- The virus breaks through the host cell's membrane (phospholipid bilayer) and releases its genetic instructions into the cell. * Step 3- The injected genetic material starts controlling the host cell's enzymes * Step 4-The 'zombie' enzymes start making parts for more new viruses. * Step 6- The new virus particles assemble into fresh new viruses. * Step 7-The new particles break out of the host cell and infect other cells in the body

Click on the links below for more information from Answers.com and HowStuffWorks.com From the Wikipedia article: Influenza viruses bind through hemagglutinin onto sialic acid sugars on the surfaces of epithelial cells; typically in the nose, throat and lungs of mammals and intestines of birds.

Yes. To date (14-11-08) there have been 245 human deaths due to Bird flu (H5N1)

The same as any other virus strain of influenza, avoid direct person to person contact with an infected person, wash hands frequently, and avoid touching your face, eyes, nose, or mouth with your unwashed hands. See the related questions below for more information on avoiding viruses.

only birds could have bird flu. it passed on from bird to bird through touch or their s hit. if anothere bird got sh at on by a bird with bird flue that bird would have it.

There is no cure for the swine flu because Influenza is a mutating virus, so there is currently no cure only prevention and treatment. Often flu viruses that cause pandemics eventually "mutate" themselves away, but that is not an overnight process.

If everyone who can gets vaccinated, the swine flu H1N1/09 can be stopped more quickly.

Prior to the mid-1990s, WNV disease occurred only sporadically and was considered a minor risk for humans, until an outbreak in Algeria in 1994, with cases of WNV-caused encephalitis, and the first large outbreak in Romania in 1996, with a high number of cases with neuroinvasive disease. WNV has now spread globally, with the first case in the Western Hemisphere being identified in New York City in 1999.

No one person is credited with discovering this new flu virus in 2009. It was a joint effort by scientists and doctors in Mexico, the US and the World Health Organization.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigated the virus which was first detected in Mexico City and was made public March 18, 2009. On microscopic evaluation, they determined it was a brand new strain of influenza virus that was causing the illness. They also were the ones to isolate the new virus and grow cultures in the laboratory to be used as the seed stock to create vaccines.

The CDC has scientists from many disciplines working to discover and find solutions for new infectious diseases. They go to the site and work to discover what known or new microorganisms are involved. Epidemiologists, microbiologists, doctors, virologists and infectious disease specialists were among the groups who rapidly identified what was causing the spreading illness in Mexico.

The first person identified with the new influenza was in Mexico City and from there it was tracked back to La Gloria, a small village in the south of Mexico, where it is believed that it started infecting people first (although some new evidence suggests that it may have previously been in Asia, which may have actually been the location of the first creation of the new virus and the actual source. This is still being investigated).

The Mexican health authorities and US CDC worked to identify what the new virus was that the woman in Mexico City had. They took culture samples and grew them in culture media and then identified in a lab what the properties of the virus were and compared it to previously known flu strains. When determined it was an entirely new type of flu, an international team of scientists became involved. New strains like that can create significant illness and pandemics since people would have had no prior exposure to have developed immunity.

The need to identify the illness the woman in Mexico City had, so that they could know how to treat the patient, is what drove the epidemiologists and microbiologists to the discovery of the specific, and new, flu strain.

Now there has been a field test kit developed that is used to quickly identify probable swine flu cases when it is important to know the specific virus involved. Usually that is not needed since the treatment is the same for all common influenza viruses.

The scientists with the CDC also isolated and grew the virus that causes the swine flu and selected the particular "substrain" to use to make a vaccine. They worked closely with the FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) and with the drug manufacturers to design and select the correct vaccine to protect against the new flu in 2009. They added the antigen made from the new virus to the "recipe" for vaccines for other flu viruses that had been used for decades, since the safety and effectiveness of that process had already been proven.

The vaccine for A-H1N1/09 is included again in the 2011-2012 flu season vaccine (it won't hurt to take it again if you had it one of the prior two years). The seasonal flu vaccine also contains vaccine for two other common flu types expected to be circulating in this current flu season.

As of April 2013, only 360 people world-wide have died from avian flu, H5N1, and 10s of millions of birds have died of this strain since 2003. It is rare among humans.

As of Easter Sunday 2013, it was reported that a new strain to infect humans, H7N9, had claimed the lives of the first two people with this rare strain of avian flu. Two men have died in Shanghai, and one other person in a different part of China is in critical condition with this strain of bird flu.

The US Saturn V (that's "Saturn Five", not "Saturn Vee") is the largest (both in terms of height and weight) and most powerful rocket ever actually built and launched so far. It had a takeoff mass of over 3 million kg (weight just under 6,700,000 pounds), was 110 meters (363 feet) tall and had a diameter of just over 10 meters (33 feet). A Saturn V could lift almost 120 metric tons to low Earth orbit.

I believe it is lytic. Think: colds are fast acting; they don't sit in your cell for years on end. This means they are lytic (fast acting).

The virus has DNA as its genetic material. More interesting, the DNA is single-stranded.

"Parvo" is short for "parvovirus" and usually "canine parvovirus type 2."

Yes, water fowl (especially non-domesticated fowl in the wild) are a common source of the Avian (Bird) flu virus. Luckily, it remains contained to limited areas of the world at present.