Sentences with phrase «bird flu risk»

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The reports suggest that there is a large risk of a human version of bird flu erupting in the near future, and show how this could be done in a laboratory.

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 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.

So when communicating about risks — whether it's an ongoing MERS outbreak, the Disneyland measles outbreak, or bird flu — a trustworthy communicator is just as important as the disease facts themselves.

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.

But without an effective drug to combat avian infections, more flu - infected birds will come into contact with people, adding to the risk of a mutation that will allow a human - to - human transmission of the flu.

«Potential flu pandemic lurks: Influenza viruses circulating in pigs, birds could pose risk to humans.»

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.

The other risk appears to be Bird Flu.

Bird flu, if it ever jumps into direct human to human spreading is more of a global risk because of the rapid mechanism by which flus propagate.