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Avian Influenza: What it is and How to Protect Against Its Establishment PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 04 July 2008

What is avian influenza?

Avian influenza (AI) is a disease of poultry (both chickens and urkeys) caused by a type A virus belonging to the Orthomyxovirus roup. The different types of avian influenza viruses are described nd differentiated by the types of hemagglutinin (H) and euraminidase (N) glycoproteins (surface antigens) on the outer urface of the virus. There are a total of 15 hemagglutinin and  neuraminidase types. An AI virus can start out by being f low pathogenicity (LPAI) but mutate without warning to ecome of high pathogenicity (HPAI) without a change in ts H or N subtypes.

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