The Global Threat of Bird (Avian) Flu its Treatment Methods and Public Health Preventive Measures

Background and Objectives: This assignment will critically review and evaluate the mortality and the harmful effects caused by the Bird (Avian) Flu in Thailand and Turkey. Are we prepared for the management and treatment of Bird (Avian) Flu if it affects the UK and other non-affected countries? Methods: Literature Review was done carefully for the Hot Current Topic Avian Flu and what are the Preventive Measures. Various Recommended and Good repute Global Organizations such as WHO, CDC USA, BBC UK, NHS UK Others Literature was reviewed for Article writing and selecting Excellent Preventive Measures [1,3-7,12,16,18]. Results: This essay has explored the Avian (bird) flu in terms of definition, classification, signs and symptoms caused by Avian flu, statistics of morbidity and mortality caused by Avian flu in Turkey, Thailand and other effected countries. In this essay I talk treatment, health implications, risks and the warnings about the Avian flu and food safety implications in humans to prevent from the harmful effects of the Avian flu. I also discuss the some of the actions taken by the UK government to prevent the population of the UK from harmful effects of the Avian flu. Conclusion: In this essay, I told the dangers and the harmful effects done by the Avian flu and how this deadly disease spread in the communities silently and the health departments comes to know about this disease when it done its work, killing the innocent people, terrorize the whole community by its deadly results. This essay also points out the flaws in our health systems for example, are the health authorities is aware of the dangers of Avian flu are the health departments are serious about giving training to the members of health department to cope with this great threat of Avian flu, are they teaching local people how to cope with this danger? No I don’t think that enough work is done to handle this great threat of Avian flu. Keywords: Avian Flu H5N1; Antiviral Agents; Vaccines; Global Threa