Sentences with phrase «avian flu in»

H3N2, on the other hand, is believed to have mutated from a strain of avian flu in Asia.

The letter states that the pause potentially applies to six projects that range from studying the ecology of avian flu in live bird markets in Colombia to looking at drug - resistance mutations in seasonal influenza strains.

«Circulation of highly pathogenic avian flu in North American birds.»

«Infection control preparedness measures control avian flu in Hong Kong hospital.»

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.

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

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

The risk to the public from the outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of avian bird flu in Suffolk is «negligible», environment secretary David Miliband has insisted.

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

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

(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.)

Another scenario envisioned by scientists has avian and mammalian flu strains mixing in some other species, perhaps pigs.

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

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 animalIn 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 animalin 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.

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.

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.

As a result, no one can explain why the avian H5N1 flu virus has infected some 400 people worldwide, mainly in Asia and Africa, but failed so far to adapt completely to humans.

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.

A strain of bird flu that has sickened 132 people and killed 37 in China this year may have more potential to spread worldwide than the dreaded H5N1 avian influenza does.

Pandemic flu continues to threaten public health, especially in the wake of the recent emergence of an H7N9 low pathogenic avian influenza strain in 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.

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 avianAvian 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 avianavian 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.

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.

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.

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.

Fukuda notes that avian flu has been just as severe and difficult to control in other affected countries, such as Egypt, where a spate of human cases this year has drawn international concern.

In fact, most of what we know about the human version of the disease comes from Indonesia, where avian flu goes by the nickname AI.

PowderMed, based in Oxford, is developing a DNA - based vaccine that works by spraying gold particles coated with avian flu genes directly into human skin with high - pressure helium.

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.

Genetic analysis shows that the virus is a mix of avian and swine viruses from North America, a swine flu strain usually seen in Asia, and a human influenza strain.

Frankel took the example of the avian flu research that in 2011 sparked a fierce debate about whether it should be published, given that it identified mutations that could make the H5N1 virus much more transmittable to humans.

The production cycle is so long that the avian flu could evolve to bypass the new vaccine or any vaccine in production.

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 avian flu outbreak, if it jumps to humans, is estimated to cost a trillion dollars in economic loss.

If you are not working in an area of research that's critical to human health, it probably doesn't matter, but in the case of the flu and avian flu, most recently, this is an area that is of critical importance with health.

Phil: So, I mean, I think that is one of the problems touched on at the summit was that we have a lot of warnings about potential pandemics — swine flu back in the»70s in this country, avian flu — and there is the real threat of people becoming lackadaisical and not taking any of this seriously after a while.

Investigators found four other incidents in the past decade when deadly pathogens were mishandled, including an event in March when a sample of the avian flu strain H5N1 was contaminated with a more lethal strain and accidentally shipped to a USDA lab without proper protections.

These contaminants are implicated in a long list of health problems, including neurodegenerative disease, cancer, emphysema, and perhaps even pandemics like avian flu.

From the avian flu to the bubonic plague, disease outbreaks have been a constant in human history.