Sentences with phrase «bird flu»

The culprit turned out to be a strain of bird flu that had never before been seen in cats, and had not been found in any animal in 10 years.

Cats can become infected with flu viruses, including bird flu viruses.

Monitoring the migration routes of wild birds could help to provide early warning of potential bird flu outbreaks, experts say.

As with bird flu, families sometimes catch things from each other even when the virus can not spread readily in people.

The board was afraid that the study could potentially be used as a roadmap for biochemical terrorists seeking to create a deadly bird flu weapon.

They plan to use the list only to alert owners when bird flu arrives and what to do.

It brings social and political issues into the learning process as students are asked to make recommendations to the government about bird flu.

It also isn't clear how bird flu affects dogs; reports range from no symptoms to fever to respiratory problems to death.

Some poultry farmers across the country have threatened not to alert authorities of any cases of bird flu incidence on their farms.

Thus, scientists have found that wild bird flu is almost always mild.

The preliminary results of our study made a prediction of bird flu risk which could explain the pattern of the most recent cases.

Especially when it came to the first impression, the game fought our affection like it's the fucking bird flu.

The chances that we will identify it first, a la bird flu, are minimal.

Researchers isolated the virus from a fatal human case and tested it and two genetically modified versions in ferrets, which are susceptible to both human and bird flu viruses.

It's very rare, but did you know that cats can become infected with bird flu?

Health officials around the world are on constant lookout for the deadly bird flu.

The government will do «everything we can» to contain the spread of bird flu, the prime minister said today.

Also, make sure you do not eat poultry products when bird flu is on the rise.

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However, they said the development of the vaccine was timely, amid concerns the H5N1 bird flu strain circulating in south east Asia could mutate into a pandemic strain which would put millions of lives at risk.

After two quiet years, human cases of the H7N9 bird flu virus in mainland China spiked sharply at the end of last year, provoking renewed fears of an influenza pandemic.

Although there are no reported cases of birds infecting humans, there have been cases of people getting sick from bird flu in Africa and Asia, according to the World Health Organization.

Two doses of a newly developed H7N9 bird flu vaccine seem to trigger a safe, effective immune response in humans.

They were caught in nets as part of routine sampling for bird flu and identified as a species of tailorbird, a group of tropical birds that get their name from the nests they build by sewing together leaves.

The hothouse environment of Indonesia is ground zero for a potential bird flu pandemic.

The other, H7N9, is a new bird flu virus from China.

The Ogun State government Monday confirmed the outbreak of Avian Influenza otherwise known as bird flu in the state.

The fear is echoed by a U.N. and World Bank report on bird flu preparedness, released in December 2007, which states that current risks are as high as in mid-2005.

The risk to the public from the outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of avian bird flu in Suffolk is «negligible», environment secretary David Miliband has insisted.

If bird flu arrives in Oregon, State Veterinarian Dr. Don Hansen says they want to be able to quickly contact those who have have chickens, ducks or other birds.

Did anyone foresee an African American president of the US, or that swine flu, not bird flu, was to go pandemic?

If Asian bird flu mutates into a form that spreads easily between humans, an outbreak of just 40 infected people would be enough to cause a global pandemic.

After 1997, when all the chickens in Hong Kong were destroyed after H5N1 bird flu killed six people, Chinese producers decided to take no chances, and started vaccinating birds with inactivated H5N1 virus.

Mr Emmanuel Eshun has, therefore, directed all members to comply with the directive and stay away from bird flu investigations, vaccine preparations, border controls, and meat inspections at the various centres across the country.

The advice is that the risk to public health remains very low and the Food Standards Agency is clear that bird flu does not pose a food safety risk for UK consumers.

The H5N1 strain of bird flu first appeared in Hong Kong in 1997 and since then has infected more than 330 people, killing more than 200.

«Mutations that allow bird flu strain to spread among humans identified: Monitoring for these mutations could enable timely response to prevent pandemic.»

Influenza A subtypes H5N1 and H7N9, for example, are both called bird flu, though the viruses have different paths of infection, or receptors, and different degrees of transmissibility.

Bird flu research is on hold after the creation of dangerous viruses in the lab, and important studies will be only partly published.

If they're slaughtering bison to prevent «cows» from getting sick, imagine what will happen to the wild animal species when a disease that is communicable like bird flu moves from a wild species to a human?

Their worst - case scenario is that a highly virulent bird flu virus could mingle with a human flu virus to spark a pandemic like the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed at least 20 million people.

In a study in Nature Medicine, the team reported that vaccinated mice and ferrets appeared to be protected from dying of the H5N1 bird flu after receiving the vaccine, even when they developed symptoms.

On Monday, McDonald's Corp. also blamed fears over bird flu for a decline in China sales for the month.

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Gilbert and his colleagues tested the Cambodian birds for pathogens and found that more than 10 percent carried bird flu.

When traveling in areas where bird flu is common, travelers can protect themselves by avoiding contact with domestic and wild birds because extensive studies of human cases indicate that direct contact with infected poultry was the cause of the infection.

«We can't afford not to be concerned,» says Robert Webster, a leading bird flu expert at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.

They chose the H5 and H7 subtypes because they have been the cause of recent bird flu outbreaks and have pandemic potential.

You just wait until the first outbreak of bird flu shows up here in the US.