Sentences with phrase «avian flu pandemic»

«Economist Gary Becker says, «Hurricane Katrina and now the danger of an avian flu pandemic — one an actual, the other a potential, catastrophe for which the nation failed or is failing to prepare adequately — underscore the need for institutional reforms that will overcome policy myopia based on inability to plan seriously for responding to catastrophes of slight or unknown probability but huge potential harm,» Judge Richard Posner responds.»

My concerns are that the headline («A Pandemic That Wasn't...») & structure of this article, (which leads with a «false alarm» paragraph) could leave casual readers with a sense that avian flu pandemic concerns have been overblown.

Not exact matches

More resources can be found online at Flu.gov, a one - stop access to U.S. Government 2009 H1N1 flu, avian and pandemic flu information.

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

But unlike the pandemic strains of 1957 and 1968, which appear to have resulted from the direct mixing of avian and human flu strains, the 1918 strain doesn't seem to have jumped directly from birds to humans.

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.

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

It turns out that all 20th - century pandemic viruses, among them the 2009 swine flu, have avian flu PB1 genes.

The findings come amid ongoing concerns about flu pandemics launched by avian flu viruses and the global rise of obesity.

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.

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

The more humans that an avian virus infects, Stöhr says, the greater the risk that it will morph into a flu pandemic.

The call for the moratorium and summit follows months of rising tension over two studies that describe how researchers made the deadly H5N1 avian influenza more transmissible between mammals — possibly providing a blueprint on how to set off a flu pandemic.

It has become almost common wisdom that the virus that caused the 1918 flu pandemic was an avian strain introduced into the human population shortly before the pandemic erupted.

The finding is exciting «because it suggests that the seasonal flu vaccine boosts antibody responses and may provide some measure of protection against a new pandemic strain that could emerge from the avian population,» said senior study author Paul G. Thomas, PhD, an Associate Member in the Department of Immunology at St. Jude.

Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin at Madison studied a hybrid flu virus made from the avian H5 and the human H1N1 pandemic flu of 2009.

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.

The specter of the 1918 Spanish flu — which may have started in the United States, not Spain, and killed about 20 million to 50 million people worldwide — has prompted public - health authorities to predict that we are unprepared to deal with a pandemic based on a highly pathogenic new strain of the H5N1 avian flu.

The human influenza virus H1N1 that caused the 2009 flu pandemic, and H9N2, an avian influenza virus that is endemic in bird populations in Asia, are close cousins — close enough that they can swap genes if they find themselves in the same cell, resulting in new viruses that are a patchwork of the parent strains.

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...

Isn't avian flu supposed to be the big risk in terms of a global pandemic?

After a classroom discussion about the flu pandemic of 1918 and the avian flu of 2005, students take on the role of medical and scientific advisers to the government, suggesting how to control the spread of avian flu.

Do we have to wait for avian flu to become pandemic, or for hemorraghic fevers to hit the US (neither of which is far - fetched)?

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.