http://www.beststockprices.us/health/%E2%80%9Cbird-flu%E2%80%9D-what-you-need-to-know/ “Bird flu” is not the same thing as human pandemic flu. “Bird flu”-H5N1 highly pathogenic Asian avian influenza-is a severe disease of birds. All the people known to have gotten it had close contact with infected birds, mostly in rural villages in Asia. Where there is no close contact with infected birds, there’s no human disease. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:50:18 MST en