How to Prevent Bird Flu to Humans and Poultry

What is Avian Flu?

Avian Flu? An acute respiratory illness caused by the H5N1 influenza virus that is transmitted by birds that can infect humans. Symptoms include fever (temperature above 38 degrees Celsius), cough and dry throat / pain, muscle pain, shortness of breath, upper respiratory tract inflammation or inflammation of the lungs (pneumonia), infection of the lining of the eye (conjunctivitis), headache, nausea and abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, mucus from the nose, and no appetite.

How to Prevent Bird Flu

Bird flu medicine? Drugs that can be given is symptomatic, according to the symptoms. When coughing, the patient may be given medication cough, headache and fever were anti-pain and antidemam, if given the shortness of drugs dilate the airways. Also, it can also be given antiviral drugs such as amantadine and oseltamivire (Tamiflu). If the patient's condition continued to deteriorate, usually mounted tool ventilator to assist his breathing.

But despite intensive treatment has been done, the condition of the bird flu patients tend to deteriorate even unto death. Therefore, the best course of action is prevention. Moreover, until now there has been the discovery of a vaccine for bird flu to humans.

How to Prevent Bird Flu to Humans

 

1. Avoid contact with poultry: Instead, avoid going to a poultry farm, poultry, etc.; Avoid buying live poultry, because you or other family members who cleaned birds will make direct contact with the dirt still on the birds; Do not handle birds who died suddenly without gloves. 
2. If contact with poultry should: Use a mask and goggles, gloves, and boots when entering areas being infected or infected with the bird flu virus; Wash your hands with soap or antiseptic solution after handling poultry / birds. 
3. To process meat and poultry products with either: Choose healthy birds (there are no symptoms of disease in the body); Poultry should be cooked at a temperature of 80 ° C for 1 min, whereas poultry eggs need to be heated at a temperature of 64 ° C for 5 min; because eggs can also be infected, then handling raw egg shells and egg needs to be considered also. Newly purchased raw eggs should be washed to remove dirt on the skin, so there is no contamination before being stored in the refrigerator.
4. Manage the environment properly: Keep your home environment or farm environment; Clean bird droppings every day; Clean fodder / birds are scattered on the ground / floor, so as not to invite wild birds to come; Do not throw shit (offal, feathers, etc.) carelessly , wrap in plastic and then planted in the ground or throw it in the trash. 
5. Healthy lifestyle: Keeping the immune system with a balanced and nutritious diet, rest and exercise regularly; Frequent hand washing; Patients who have the flu is recommended lots of rest, lots of drinking and eating nutritious.
6. Closely observe your health if you have close contact with poultry / birds. Seek medical attention if you develop symptoms of fever, eye infections, and / or difficulty breathing.

How to Prevent Bird Flu in Poultry

1. Keep the cage poultry (chickens, ducks and birds, etc) from home / residence. 
2. The tools used in the farm must be washed with disinfectant. 
3. Spraying with disinfectant corral. 
4. Cages and feces should not be removed from the location of the farm. 
5. Material from the gastrointestinal tract of poultry faeces should be managed as well (grown / burned) so as not to be a source of infection for people around him. 
6. Vaccination of healthy birds to prevent contracting H5N1 influenza virus. 
7. Culling of poultry or birds infected with bird flu by fire and then buried. 

 Those are some steps to prevent bird flu to humans and poultry.

How to Prevent Bird Flu to Humans and Poultry 2013-07-22T00:07:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Usgi