Sentences with phrase «avian flu virus»

The U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Department of Agriculture published the genetic analysis of a mixed - origin HPAI H5N1 avian flu virus in the journal Genome Announcements today.

Naturally, the digestive tract of birds — the primary location of avian flu viruses — provides just such a calcium - rich environment, so that the birds can make egg shells.

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

We've had outbreaks of human infections from avian flu, in recent years, in Virginia, Canada, and last year in New York, when a strain of H7N2 avian flu virus passed from a cat in an animal shelter to a human.

Like other avian flu viruses, H7N9 has is specific for receptors on bird cells, but not receptors on human cells.

More recent results demonstrate that avian flu viruses isolated from infected humans have the same gene sequences as those from birds.

In humans, avian flu viruses infect the airways and are then found in bodily fluids, where the calcium concentration is too low for mineralization.

All subtypes (but not all strains of all subtypes) of Influenza A virus are adapted to birds, which is why for many purposes avian flu virus is the Influenza A virus (note that the «A» does not stand for «avian»).

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.

From its sequence, researchers already knew that the 1918 HA gene resembled that of avian flu viruses.

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

But how does this flu measure up to SARS and to other threatening influenza strains like the H5N1 avian flu virus?

Epidemiologists have worried that the avian flu virus, formally known as H5N1, could mutate enough to sicken and pass among humans, who would not have an immunity to it.

Last week, in a statement jointly published in Nature and Science, 39 flu researchers declared a 60 - day pause in the creation of lab mutant strains of the H5N1 avian flu virus.

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.

«I don't think people should be overly concerned if they're exposed to avian flu virus that they're going to get Parkinson's disease,» Tansey says.

That deep location would make it difficult for an infected person to spread the avian flu virus through coughing or sneezing.

Stung by a growing global controversy over the potential dangers of experiments involving the H5N1 avian flu virus — and worried about heavy - handed government regulation — the world's leading H5N1 researchers have agreed to a 60 - day moratorium on a controversial category of studies «to allow time for international discussion.»

In the heated debate about two labs that engineered a variant of the deadly H5N1 avian flu virus that for the first time easily transmits between mammals, one critical voice has been missing: Yoshihiro Kawaoka.

The cytokine response to the avian flu virus, H5N1, is particularly vociferous, and some thought that this «cytokine storm» might be the main cause of death.

According to Earl Brown, professor of medicine at the University of Ottawa, the more limited ability of the avian flu virus to infect cells in the human airway thus also appears to be associated with infection of the deep areas of the lung where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged.

The researchers trawled their gigantic library of more than 27 billion human antibodies to determine which molecules latch onto H5, the version of hemagglutinin carried by the avian flu virus.

The avian flu virus could cause a pandemic if it mutates into a form that is more easily transmitted between humans.

The H3N2 canine influenza virus was an avian flu virus that adapted to infect dogs.

This strand also adapted to infect dogs, from the avian flu virus.

H3N2 is an avian flu virus that has also adapted to infect dogs.

Human influenza, swine flu and avian flu viruses are different, yet closely related.

The H3N2 canine influenza virus is an avian flu virus that adapted to infect dogs.

It's worth pondering this question anew, given the debate that's erupted over efforts to limit publication of details of new research producing a deadly strain of the H5N1 avian flu virus that's transmissible in ferrets, which are a research stand - in for humans.