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Home What is Bird Flu? How Pandemics Start Pandemic Spread Pandemics in History Bird Flu Symptoms Differences-Cold & Flu  Lower Respiratory Complications Protect Yourself against Bird Flu Your Immune System Boost your Immune System Fight the Flu Important Links World Health Organisation Aust Gov Dpt Health NZ Ministry of Health CDC - USA gov Public Health Agency - Canada European Commission - Influenza Dept Health - South Africa Dept Health - England Dept Health - Ireland Scottish Executive Health Dept Wales Pandemic Flu Current Action Hong Kong Gov - Avian Influenza Bird Flu Singapore Gov Dept Health - Germany Dept of Health - Philippines EPID - Sri Lanka Know of an important link about Bird Flu? Please let me know so that it can be added. Thank you!	How Pandemics Start If the Avian Influenza virus, or Bird Flu, mutates into a new sub-type strain that humans can catch and pass onto each other, then the virus will be a human influenza virus. By definition, a pandemic is an "Epidemic over a wide geographic area and affecting a large proportion of the population." An influenza pandemic occurs when a Type A Influenza virus acquires new proteins. Because the virus that is formed is 'new' to humans, there will not be people who have built up any antibodies to the Influenza virus. This means that the virus can be caught by vast numbers of people, with disastrous results for populations around the world.

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