It’s not fair! Monkeys got HIV, then it jumped a species and humans got a really pathetic but deadly new disease to worry about (frankly saying, we were getting a bit complacent about modern medical advances!). Now birds get the flu and they pass it on to humans. Bird flu is now the new deadly universal pariah, which is causing hundreds of thousands of animal and poultry deaths all over the world.  

Although human deaths due to Avian Influenza are minimal and are limited to those people who directly handle the poultry, there is always the possibility that the disease will jump genus to cause a human epidemic. Imagine that Armageddon!

The flu virus is an ingenious little thing capable of continuous evolution to beat all medicines and vaccines humans invent to protect themselves. After all, we take the DPT vaccine just once in our lives, why yearly pokes for the FLU? 

All influenza viruses are separated into three types-A, B, and C. Type A is the one which gives you the sniffles every year and now its getting ready to do much more by giving humans the bird flu. So although wild fowl can carry the virus without danger, they happily transmit the virus to domesticated fowl making for a tremendous loss of life. There are two variants to the virus- H5N1 and H7N7. Although, according to scientists, there is a very real possibility that Avian Influenza could develop into a Judgment Day scenario as a mutated virus could cause about two million to 50 million human deaths. 

That should be enough to put you off any poultry for awhile!