Sentences with phrase «avian flu first»

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

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

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.

Bird flu takes flight Avian flu in Indonesia first caught the world's attention in 2004, when it wiped out 16.2 million birds in a bit over a year.

Through the first three quarters of 2009, Indonesia failed to report any flu cases at all, even though the Food and Agriculture Organization (a body of the United Nations that monitors avian influenza in birds) has found the infection to be deeply entrenched among fowl in 31 of the country's 33 provinces and endemic in Java, Sumatra, and Bali.

First, they ruled out avian flu by testing serum samples from the animals for flu antibodies.

The first is when avian and human flu strains combine genes, or reassort.

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).

Close disease surveillance and targeted use of anti-viral drugs could be enough to keep a small outbreak of avian flu from becoming the first influenza pandemic in 36 years, according to a new...

This strain is different from the one first seen in Florida in 2004, having adapted from an avian flu, rather than one that infects horses.

Heinze also notes the recent rise in headlines about avian flu — nine deaths in Vietnam and the first known case of avian flu passing from person to person.