What to know about bird flu

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) ; National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (U.S.) ;
• Description:
  Bird flu is a disease caused by certain flu viruses that usually spreads between birds, not people. Infected birds can spread the virus through their mucous, saliva or feces. People rarely get bird flu, but when they do, it’s most often through direct unprotected contact (no gloves, protective wear, facemasks, respirators or eye protection) with infected birds. People can become infected by breathing virus in droplets in the air or possibly dust, or by touching surfaces contaminated with infected bird mucous, saliva or feces and then touching their eyes, mouth or nose. Human illness from bird flu has ranged from no symptoms at all to severe illness, resulting in death.
  
  CS330109A
  
  Bird-Flu-Exposure-Handout.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Disease Outbreaks/prevention & Control Influenza, Human Influenza In Birds Occupational Diseases/epidemiology Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Zoonoses
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:c30b46264ee85372096e27f4088dd1322df7b9ad436db58ea27c7476f6042376
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/116424/cdc_116424_DS1.pdf
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