Advice to employers on the risks from Avian Flu

Avian Influenza is a disease that affects poultry. It is highly infectious to birds, often fatal, and spreads rapidly among flocks, sometimes carried by wild birds as they migrate.

Only the H5N1 strain is regarded as a risk to humans, as it has managed to jump the species boundary and infect people in South-East Asia. So far it hasn't happened often, and the victims have been mostly vets and poultry workers and their families, who have been infected by direct contact with birds.

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