Sentences with phrase «as avian influenza»

In a recent development, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was forced to admit that a patented liquid silver solution called Axen30TM when used as a surface disinfectant had the ability to kill multiple strains of MRSA plus additional deadly pathogens such as Avian Influenza A (Bird Flu), Human Corona virus (SARS), Feline Calicivirus (Norovirus), Rotavirus, Campylobacter jjejuni and Acinetobacter baumannii.

This started as the avian influenza from Asia and had never been identified in the United States until recently.

In addition, potential zoonosis outbreaks, such as avian influenza, impact the flow of trade in the pet industry.APPA is following developments in these areas both nationally and internationally.

Not exact matches

Poultry products exported by the Atlanta - based company are also challenged as a result of the avian influenza virus, which has led to many countries worldwide to close their doors to poultry imports altogether.

The government promised to pay the farmers about GH cents 11 million as compensation for culling 111,000 birds during the Avian influenza (bird flu) outbreak two years ago.

As winter arrives and migratory birds return to the UK, the prospect of renewed outbreaks of avian influenza becomes a threat to shoots and estates

The Ogun State government Monday confirmed the outbreak of Avian Influenza otherwise known as bird flu in the state.

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) has supervised the killing of over 40000 birds as part of measures to contain the spread of the Avian Influenza (Bird Flu).

(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.)

As controversy rages around the scientists who created mutant strains of the H5N1 avian influenza virus, leading flu researchers have called for a 60 - day voluntary pause on such work.

More than 100 species of wild waterfowl have been identified as natural, usually asymptomatic hosts of a variety of avian influenza A (bird flu) subtypes.

Take us through, for example, H5N1, avian influenza A, commonly known as bird flu, which has been a problem particularly in Asia for the past decade.

The new flu, known as H7N9 avian influenza, latches onto sugars that coat bird cells — and it can cling to sugars on human cells too, Yuelong Shu of the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention and colleagues...

Researchers quickly discovered that the virus was a type of avian influenza, known as H7N9, never before seen in humans.

The H5N1 avian influenza strain developed strong resistance to oseltamivir, better known as Tamiflu, in two Vietnamese patients who died from the virus early this year, according to a new study.

A proactive infection prevention plan implemented widely in a Hong Kong healthcare system was a significant factor preventing the spread of influenza strain A H7N9, otherwise known as Avian flu.

► An unpublished report from Italian police names Ilaria Capua, a prominent scientist who is now a member of the Italian Parliament, as part of «a criminal organization» that colluded to profit from Italy's battle with avian influenza, Laura Margottini reported in this week's Science.

Researchers have shown that looking at movements of operators and vehicles between farms in the same way we look at contacts in social networks can help explain the spread of dangerous infectious diseases of livestock, such as foot - and - mouth disease and avian influenza.

«As the risks of such research and its publication are debated by the community, I argue that we should pursue transmission studies of highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses with urgency,» he writes in Nature.

Avian flu (also «bird flu», «avian influenza», «bird influenza»), means «flu from viruses adapted to birds», but is sometimes mistakenly used to refer to both other flu subsets (such as H5N1 flu) or the viruses that cause them (such as HAvian flu (also «bird flu», «avian influenza», «bird influenza»), means «flu from viruses adapted to birds», but is sometimes mistakenly used to refer to both other flu subsets (such as H5N1 flu) or the viruses that cause them (such as Havian influenza», «bird influenza»), means «flu from viruses adapted to birds», but is sometimes mistakenly used to refer to both other flu subsets (such as H5N1 flu) or the viruses that cause them (such as H5N1).

In natural settings, pigs can act as a virtual mixing bowl to combine avian - and mammalian - specific influenza strains, potentially allowing avian strains to better adapt to humans.

As a controversial study of the H5N1 avian influenza virus published online today in Science shows, researchers are keenly interested in how mutations in the virus» genes might enable it to become transmissible in humans.

The new flu, known as H7N9 avian influenza, latches onto sugars that coat bird cells — and it can cling to sugars on human cells too, Yuelong Shu of the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention and colleagues report July 3 in Nature.

Crucially, the WHO says there is no evidence that the avian influenza, a nasty strain known as H5N1, is spreading from person to person.

The current epizootic in the Far East caused by avian influenza virus A (H5N1) has led to real concern about the possibility of a new pandemic of influenza.12 Technological innovation, such as the use of new vaccines delivered by the intradermal route, offers great promise to change and improve on current immunization strategies.

Rao has worked as a consultant for the World Bank and other international agencies and has contributed to policies on epidemics like AIDS, avian influenza and swine flu.

IRTA has also developed multiple animal and / or arthropod models to work with zoonotic pathogens such as avian and swine influenza, RVFV, MERS - coronavirus, West Nile virus and chikungunya virus.

They are a part of our first line of defense against diseases such as BSE (Mad Cow Disease), West Nile Virus, avian influenza and others.

As dogs have been infected with both mammalian and avian influenza viruses, they have the potential to act like pigs, as «mixing vessel» hosts for the generation of new strainAs dogs have been infected with both mammalian and avian influenza viruses, they have the potential to act like pigs, as «mixing vessel» hosts for the generation of new strainas «mixing vessel» hosts for the generation of new strains.

The team monitored and responded to outbreaks of wildlife - originating diseases, such as the saiga antelope die - off in Kazakhstan and global outbreaks of avian influenza.

H7N2 is a type of avian influenza virus that can mutate and transfer to mammals, such as cats.