Bird flu may refer to:
- Biology and disease
- Avian influenza, influenza endemic to birds and pigeons.
- Influenzavirus A, the causative agent for bird flu; the genus of the Orthomyxoviridae family. of viruses to which all viruses responsible for avian influenza belongs to, but also includes viruses that are endemic to humans and other animals.
- H5N1, a subtype of influenza A virus endemic to birds, currently perceived as a significant emerging pandemic threat.
- Music
- Bird Flu (song), by musician M.I.A.
Famous quotes containing the word bird:
“For sounds in winter nights, and often in winter days, I heard the forlorn but melodious note of a hooting owl indefinitely far; such a sound as the frozen earth would yield if struck with a suitable plectrum, the very lingua vernacula of Walden Wood, and quite familiar to me at last, though I never saw the bird while it was making it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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