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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.

Not exact matches

More than 100 species of wild waterfowl have been identified as natural, usually asymptomatic hosts of a variety of avian influenza A (bird flu) subtypes.

A strain of bird flu that has sickened 132 people and killed 37 in China this year may have more potential to spread worldwide than the dreaded H5N1 avian influenza does.

Related sites World Organization for Animal Health's avian influenza page More about avian influenza from the WHO

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However, compared to other avian influenza viruses, the attachment to epithelial cells by H7N9 in the bronchioles and alveoli of the lung was more abundant and the viruses attached to a broader range of cell types.

I understand China's desire to curtail the spread of Influenza A, both to buy more time to prepare a vaccine and to limit the opportunities that the virus will mix with the far more lethal avian influenza endemic to thInfluenza A, both to buy more time to prepare a vaccine and to limit the opportunities that the virus will mix with the far more lethal avian influenza endemic to thinfluenza endemic to the region.

They found that like other avian influenza viruses, the H7N9 viruses attached more strongly to lower parts of the human respiratory tract than to upper parts.

The avian influenza that killed 1000 or more migratory birds at Lake Qinghai in western China in mid-May may represent a new and more lethal form of the HN51 virus, Chinese researchers report.

It shows that a particularly troublesome strain of avian influenza, designated H5N1, which has been worrying public health officials for more than a decade, has the potential to become a human pandemic.

In 2011, it became embroiled in heated debates about «gain - of - function» experiments with the deadly avian influenza virus H5N1 that made it more transmissible in mammals.

Last week, two more problems came to light: a recent CDC shipment of flu samples contaminated with the deadly H5N1 avian influenza and the discovery of smallpox vials from 1954 in a government lab at the National Institutes of Health.

At the outset, no one could predict that the novel H1N1 virus — a recombination of human, pig, and avian influenza genes — would turn out to be more wimp than monster.

AMSTERDAM — Antibody tests now show that at least 1000 people contracted an avian influenza virus during a massive poultry outbreak in the Netherlands last year — many more than assumed.

At the request of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, Science and Nature have agreed to strike key details from papers in press describing how researchers made the deadly H5N1 avian influenza virus more transmissible between mammals.

«To provide time for these discussions, we have agreed on a voluntary pause of 60 days on any research involving highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 viruses leading to the generation of viruses that are more transmissible in mammals.»

More than half of the new infectious diseases that plague humanity — including avian influenza, West Nile virus, SARS, and even Ebola — originated from animals.

Chiu pointed to a number of serious and unexpected animal - to - human disease transmissions over the last 10 years, including SARS in 2003, the H1N1 influenza in 2009, and the current outbreak of H7N9 avian influenza, which already has resulted in more than 20 deaths in China.

The NSABB meeting was the latest step in a debate that began in late 2011, when two labs revealed they had engineered the potent H5N1 avian influenza to spread more easily among mammals.

Something like 70 percent of human diseases generally start in animals first (avian influenza, mad cow, chronic wasting disease) and then spread to humans, so we're seeing more demand for public health specialists.

She has assisted the poultry industry in the implementation of control, prevention, and treatment programs for avian influenza and other respiratory pathogens, and for the more infamous bacteria salmonella.