How is avian influenza transmitted from birds to humans?
In general, most human cases of the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus have been traced to direct contact with infected poultry or their droppings. High risk activities include plucking, preparing or playing with diseased birds, consuming duck’s blood or possibly under cooked poultry and handling birds involved in cock-fighting. Mass culling of poultry has not been implicated in transmission of the H5N1 virus.
