Sentences with phrase «avian flu viruses infect»
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Before SARS, before worries about widespread avian flu, the Nipah virus infected humans with surprising ease.
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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.
The more humans that an avian virus infects, Stöhr says, the greater the risk that it will morph into a flu pandemic.
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.
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.
The H3N2 canine influenza virus was an avian flu virus that adapted to infect dogs.
H3N2 is an avian flu virus that has also adapted to infect dogs.
The H3N2 canine influenza virus is an avian flu virus that adapted to infect dogs.