Is it true that Bird Flue is like an airborn AIDS?

Question

I hear it attacks the immune system and that the people most at risk are 20-40 year olds. Is this true???

Answer 1

No, it's not like HIV at all. It's just a potent type of flu virus. The reason they say healthy 20-40 year olds are at high risk is due to a phenomenon called cytokine storm. Cytokine is released in the body to signal the immune system that there is an infection, similar to shooting a flare gun up in the air to let rescuers know where you are. This particular flu virus replicated extremely quickly, so a healthy immune system will start firing off cytokine left and right, and will actually fire off way too much of the stuff. This will cause the immune system to over-respond, and it can actually start attacking your own body. That is the danger of this particular flu, and that's why it has a much higher death rate than regular flu.



For more on cytokine storm, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_storm

Answer 2

Scientists are still unsure who will be infected by it. The pandemic of 1918 effected males 20-40 but that's not to say the next one will. The last outbreak effected the very young and the old.

It's not like the aids virus, you'll have a very good chance of surviving 'flu. The estimates are 50 million deaths worldwide, it sounds a lot but the odds are not that bad.

Answer 3

A bird flue would best be used to let birds out of a cage or other enclosure.

Doesn't anybody here know what a flue is?

Answer 4

No it is a high fever, it is not like AIDS, it may not even happen, the symtoms are strong fever, it is nothing like aids. Also, you do not have a good chancce of surviving this flu because of how strong it is. 75% or less chance you could die when you have the BIRD FLU.

Answer 5

no is like yellowfever in the1900s

thats why they kill lots or birds