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How is avian flu transmitted? how is avian flu transmitted between birds and humans? how do humans pass it along?
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FROM DEAD OR SICK BI: Usually from dead or sick poultry, people who work with poultry and birds it is highlycontagious in birds and rare cases reported in humans, and can be fatal.Humans can not pass this to other humans.
Answered 1/20/2014
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