Sentences with phrase «avian flu outbreaks»

Google Earth — the company's interactive map — is already be used to track avian flu outbreaks and mutations [link needs Google Earth application].

One study from Taiwan tracked avian flu outbreaks downwind of Asian dust storms and found that the flu virus might be transported long - distance by air spiked with the dust.

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.

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

With the World Health Organization's recent prediction that an avian flu outbreak could infect up to 30 percent of the world's population, that kind of lag time could mean thousands of unnecessary deaths.

Due to an avian flu outbreak earlier in the year, there are 8 million fewer turkeys to eat...

Wednesday, April 25th, 2018 - When a deadly avian flu outbreak threatened the nation's poultry industry in 2015, Purdue Veterinary Medicine faculty member Pat Wakenell was at the forefront of efforts to contain the spread of the disease.

An Ebola or avian flu outbreak In fact, any epidemic or pandemic is off the menu, when it comes to most travel insurance policies — even if the outbreaks begin after your trip has commenced.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Authorities have culled more than 175,000 birds this winter to stamp out local outbreaks of H7N9 and other avian flu strains.

Fischetti notes that this technology could potentially be used to prevent pandemics during an avian or other flu outbreak by destroying secondary germs that might attack when the immune system is compromised.

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...

It is equally important, however, that scientific knowledge is allowed to progress if we are to optimise preparedness for potential outbreaks of avian flu and other pathogens.

This was demonstrated during recent outbreaks, from SARS and MERS to avian influenza, swine flu, Ebola, and Zika.

It'd be like an article on an outbreak of avian flu that left out any discussion of birds

In Science Times this week, he provides a valuable update on the H5N1 virus behind recent outbreaks of avian flu.

NPR reports that the recent outbreak of H5N2, or avian flu, has caused economic hardship for American farmers, to the point that the USDA is importing eggs from the Netherlands to meet demand.

Breakdowns in water supplies, large numbers of climate refugees, and violent conflicts over diminishing resources could easily create a repeat of the 1918 flu epidemic or something similar — an outbreak of drug - resistant TB or a drug - resistant human strain of avian bird flu.

This swine flu outbreak may be a good test of protocols that were created in recent years given the ongoing threat from avian flu.