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Imagine a disease that can travel worldwide, either on the wings of migrating birds, or carried by global travelers, from Hong Kong to New York, in matter of hours. Imagine a disease that has the potential to mutate, enabling transmission from birds to humans, with devastating effect. Imagine a disease that cares not for national boundaries and is capable of spreading like wildfire. This is not imagination, it is real, it is a threat, and it is the Avian Flu.
The Avian Flu has already cause many deaths in birds and in humans worldwide. It has Southeast Asian countries scrambling for responses; it has the whole world perched on its wings. The Avian Flu is fast becoming the number one threat to our global community. It may be the next pandemic. So even though most people have heard of the Avian Flu, we asked ourselves when we began our web site: What is it that our readers should know about this killer? What is it that our readers would want to know about the Avian Flu?
We felt that it was important for our readers to understand what exactly this "Avian Flu" virus is, what is it's potential danger to human, what is being done globally to combat this disease, where it has traveled, and more importantly what our readers can do to protect themselves.
You can start by following the links to the individual sections of the web site, which each address a specific topic about the avian flu. These topics are:
