Sentences with phrase «h5n2 avian flu»

With SARS, mad cow, avian flu and the worsening ailments plaguing the airline industry (which remained a significant revenue source), Cara's share price went from bad to worse in recent years.

A few months later, fears over avian flu upended the recovery.

And the term «the fifth wave» (or «the fifth epidemic,» as it's often called) is the one scientists use to describe the outbreak of avian flu that began in China on October 1, 2016.

A partial but not complete list of worries includes: China melt down, Yuan reevaluation after effects or Taiwan action, global biomedical epidemics, e.g. Avian Flu, or bioterrorism outbreaks, trade wars (China, EU), major hedge fund bankruptcies, a PBGC (Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.) shortfall crisis, major junk bond or emerging market bond default, a bank derivative blowup, Fannie Mae issues plus possible assorted natural disasters.

Diseases from SARS to avian flu to «mad cow disease» literally emerging from the nothingness.

Beef prices are on the rise, eggs have become a premium product as the avian flu continues to kill thousands of chickens and states such as New York are setting higher minimum wages.

One site manager suggested it might be because of a fear of avian flu, but others said that it was more a problem of availability.

The combined pressures of climate change and epidemics sweeping through intensive animal agriculture such as H5N2 avian flu and porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) are growing challenges for industrial agriculture, and workers organizing to demand fair pay and conditions combined with increasing consumer pressure for greater transparency and better treatment of land, animals, and workers, are having an effect.

Government chief vet declares «prevention zone» for England as highly infectious strain of avian flu hits Europe

Head of gamekeeping and game shooting, Stewart Scull, said: «I was involved in the original discussions about establishing the poultry register in 2005 when Defra gave assurances that any information provided would only be used for its intended purpose, to combat avian flu.

Everyone working at the farm has been given personal protection clothing, the avian flu drug Tamiflu and a normal flu jab.

Gordon Brown's reassurance came after three mute swans in Devon were found dead from the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of avian flu.

Dr. Daines talks about the problems with Medicaid and gives his views on a range of topics including stem cell research, avian flu, prescription drug prices, hospital closures and much more.

Today infectious disease experts recognize that an avian flu virus could genetically change enough to trigger a human pandemic.

(These proteins serve as the basis for influenza nomenclature; for instance, the H5N1 virus refers to specific classes of hemagglutinin and neuraminidase, which in this example correspond to an avian flu subtype.)

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

According to the report, «mass movements of commercial poultry without strict health control is a more parsimonious explanation for avian flu spread.»

The U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) on March 30 recommended the publication of two controversial avian flu papers.

Viruses like avian flu or the animal coronavirus that mutated into SARS must be relatively benign in their original hosts to spread from one animal in the wild to the next.

A virulent strain of avian flu, H5N1, first turned up in China in 1997 and reemerged in Southeast Asian nations in 2004.

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.

Although avian flu made few headlines in 2007, the virus continued to claim lives in Asia, particularly in Indonesia.

All of which means that story number 3 about migratory birds being the major cause of the spread of avian flu is TOTALL... Y BOGUS.

Kawaoka says he believes that the board's revised decision was influenced by a better understanding of the public - health implications of the work, which described the changes in a key viral protein called hemagglutinin that could make avian flu more transmissible among mammals.

Epidemiologists have worried that the avian flu virus, formally known as H5N1, could mutate enough to sicken and pass among humans, who would not have an immunity to it.

The good news is that with only 340 cases of avian flu and 209 deaths reported worldwide since 2003 (as of press time), there is still time to prepare.

A study published last March shows that avian flu strains can infect cells lining the human respiratory system, but they seem to have difficulty replicating.

To spread effectively from human to human, avian flu strains would have to adapt to nonciliated cells.

Because a study just out in the ornithological journal Ibis concludes that human commercial activities, particularly those associated with poultry, are the major factors in the global dispersal of avian flu.

The markets of Guangdong are also the source of H5N1, a strain of killer avian flu that first jumped from animals to people in 1997 and then reemerged last year.

Jefferson, a physician based in Rome and prominent member of the Cochrane Collaboration, was charged with reviewing studies of the antiflu drug oseltamivir, sold as Tamiflu, during the height of the avian flu scare in 2005.

Before SARS, before worries about widespread avian flu, the Nipah virus infected humans with surprising ease.

So while avian flu continues to make headlines, Nipah is also a virus to watch.

Avian flu has so far proved more fizzle than firecracker: It has killed fewer than 150 people, compared with the 35,000 Americans who die yearly from ordinary flu.

Others are Ebola in Africa, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in North America, Venezuelan equine encephalitis in South America, Hendra disease in Australia, and lethal avian flu in Asia.

An outbreak of avian flu in particular could put eggs in short supply, restricting the amount of vaccine that could be produced.

There's no cricket flu on par with avian flu or swine flu or E. coli.»

«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.

Instead, it uses information the CDC posts in the Global Initiative on Sharing Avian Influenza Data (GISAID) database, launched in 2006 by a number of science institutes and universities worldwide (including WHO, the CDC and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics) to encourage data - sharing in response to the global spread of the H5N1 avian flu.

[During] the avian flu epidemic in Southeast Asia -LSB-, for example,] important papers on the threatening nature of the disease «went unnoticed because they were published in Chinese - language journals,»» Montgomery notes in the book, quoting an article by David Cyranoski in Nature.

From avian flu to cholera, infectious diseases may not be able to hide for long.

Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy in Minneapolis, points out that the 2004 document was based on input from an international panel of 22 scientists and public - health officials, in response to the threat of the deadly H5N1 avian flu virus.

Avian flu can be transmitted from birds to humans; transmission among humans, however, is limited.

Since 2007, avian flu outbreaks have diminished in poultry and in people in Indonesia and the investigators found that the the rate of infection in pigs has similarly dropped.

Chairul Nidom of Airlangga University in Surabaya, Indonesia, and colleagues in Japan, have been tracking H5N1 in pigs since 2005 in Indonesia, the country hardest hit by the avian flu virus.

They now report that between 2005 to 2007 when the avian flu peaked, 7.4 per cent of 700 pigs they tested also carried H5N1.

Image courtesy of Vmenkov / Wikimedia Commons After public outcry against research into avian flu strains that can be transmitted among mammals, 40 of the top scientists working on the influenza strains signed a voluntary moratorium on research last January.

Consider the experience so far with avian flu, which is easily transmitted through the air in birds but hasn't yet mutated to become easily spreadable in that fashion among people.

Eventually, the avian flu could acquire the ability to be passed from person to person, sparking a pandemic.