Context: In general, avian influenza is a disease of birds caused by bird-specific influenza A virus that is not normally transferred to people; however, people in contact with live poultry are at the greatest risk of becoming infected with the virus and this is of particular concern in areas such as Southeast Asia, where the disease is endemic in the wild bird population and domestic poultry can become infected. The virus possibly could mutate to become highly virulent and infectious in humans and cause an influenza pandemic.

Question: Is the Avian flu a risk only to animals?
Answer: people in contact with live poultry are at the greatest risk of becoming infected with the virus

Question: What portion of the world is considered to be most at risk for the rapid spread of the avian flu?
Answer: areas such as Southeast Asia, where the disease is endemic in the wild bird population and domestic poultry can become infected

Question: What is the danger to humans in regards to the spread of avian flu to humans ?
Answer: The virus possibly could mutate to become highly virulent and infectious in humans and cause an influenza pandemic.

Question: Can the avian flu be sread from wild birds to birds kept in husbandry?
Answer: the disease is endemic in the wild bird population and domestic poultry can become infected.

Question: Why is the Avian flu only a risk to animals?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What portion of the world is immune to the flu?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Why is the avian influenza considered to be completely safe?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What kind of poultry are immune to avian influenza?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What is most commonly found in people compared to birds?
Answer: Unanswerable