Sentences with phrase «avian flu so»

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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 animals.

So while avian flu continues to make headlines, Nipah is also a virus to watch.

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.

Avian flu has so far proved more fizzle than firecracker: It has killed fewer than 150 people, compared with the 35,000 Americans who die yearly from ordinary flu.

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.

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

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.

So far, the killer virus looks like a run - of - the - mill swine flu, not an avian virus as some virologists had suspected — leaving scientists to wonder why the strain was so deadlSo far, the killer virus looks like a run - of - the - mill swine flu, not an avian virus as some virologists had suspected — leaving scientists to wonder why the strain was so deadlso deadly.

Ahmedâ $ ™ s team had showed that people infected by the 2009 H1N1 flu strain developed broadly protective antibodies, and separately, so did volunteers immunized against the H5N1 avian flu virus.

We knew it was going to be avian flu or swine flu that made the jump into humans and we've always been concerned about flu viruses that infect swine, birds, and humans — there are 30 or so in total.

Dog flu is not related to either the swine or avian flu that has had so much media attention lately.

And the new simmering disease appear one by one, Aids, SARS, avian flu and so on.

One theory as to why avian flu hasn't spread as much from chickens to humans in West Africa is that Nigeria and neighbors are warmer and there's more space, so people don't have to keep their chickens in their houses — meaning they breathe less chicken feces and dander, etc..