Avian Flu Pandemic Threat: Why is Ethiopia considered at risk

Abstract

Many zoonotic diseases have affected human beings with serious impact. Among those pandemic flu originated from birds have caused millions of human deaths at different times. The so called Spanish flu that caused about 50 million people worldwide in 1918-19 is the most devastating. That pandemic was refereed as “Hidar Beshita” in Ethiopia, which by causing many thousands of deaths had frightened the population and ever since the period is commemorated around the country by burning rubbish.