Sentences with phrase «avian flu appears»

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Six years after the H5N1 avian flu first appeared in China, it reemerged in December 2003 in Korea and Japan and spread like wildfire.

In the case of the avian flu epidemic that broke out in December 2003 and continued into the fall of 2004, 43 of the 44 people known to have contracted the disease appeared to have done so directly from animals.

Story number 3: Migratory birds appear to be the major cause of new cases in new regions of avian flu.

But unlike the pandemic strains of 1957 and 1968, which appear to have resulted from the direct mixing of avian and human flu strains, the 1918 strain doesn't seem to have jumped directly from birds to humans.

«Add to the possible anthrax exposure the delayed notice provided to CDC leadership about avian flu shipments and the discovery of smallpox vials in a cardboard box in an FDA storage room on the NIH campus, and these incidents no longer appear isolated; a dangerous pattern is emerging...,» said Representative Fred Upton (R - MI), chair of the full Energy and Commerce Committee.

According to Earl Brown, professor of medicine at the University of Ottawa, the more limited ability of the avian flu virus to infect cells in the human airway thus also appears to be associated with infection of the deep areas of the lung where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged.

In another development, doctors announced last week that, for the first time, an experimental vaccine appears to protect some people against the H5N1 avian flu (SN: 9/10/05, p. 171: When Flu Flies the Cooflu (SN: 9/10/05, p. 171: When Flu Flies the CooFlu Flies the Coop).

This strain appears to be an avian influenza cross over from birds, whereas the H3N8 strain was a cross over from the horse flu.

And the new simmering disease appear one by one, Aids, SARS, avian flu and so on.