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Keeping the bird flu under control »

Posted by: NewsLine 9 months, 1 week ago

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Bird Flu is just another strain of the influenza virus. The strain commonly referred to as the Bird Flu in the news is the H5N1 strain. Currently this strain of influenza principally infects birds, but it is capable of infecting mammals, but does not spread well from mammal to mammal.