Sentences with phrase «bird flu virus»

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

Two studies reporting what makes the H5N1 bird flu virus transmissible in mammals should be published fully, with no details left out, say flu experts meeting at the World Health Organisation in Geneva.

For some strains of bird flu virus, notably the worrisome H5N1 variant, the genetic changes that could make human - to - human transmission a possibility and spark a pandemic are the markers of intense interest to those who track flu as a threat to human health.

As the centenary of the great flu epidemic looms, we are right to be pessimistic — especially with H7N9 bird flu virus quietly circulating in China

Doctors there sent samples to Ron Fouchier at Erasmus, who caused a storm last year with work that made H5N1 bird flu virus transmissible among mammals.

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.

Last December, the U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) concluded that publications about the work — which for the first time made the deadly bird flu virus transmissible in mammals — should redact key details to reduce the chances of bioterrorists using the information.

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.

Flu viruses adapted to pigs have less trouble adapting to humans than do bird flu viruses — one pig - adapted virus caused the swine flu pandemic in 2009.

By concocting bird flu viruses that could potentially spread easily among humans, researchers have ignited a debate about the need for safety versus open inquiry

Hybridomas were created in the Crowe lab, and the resulting monoclonal antibodies were isolated and then mixed with the viral surface envelope protein that is specific for the H7 bird flu virus.

«Studies showing how bird flu viruses could adapt to humans offer surveillance and vaccine strategies.»

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

Live H5N1 bird flu virus sent out accidentally from an Austrian lab last year was injected into ferrets and mixed with a human strain before anyone realised

``... the oil was tested against aggressive germs, including the cold, flu and even bird flu viruses.

Mexico reported two outbreaks of the highly pathogenic H7N3 bird flu virus in the central part of the country.

The article reports that «this is the most serious bird flu virus that has ever been known;» that there have already been cases — recent cases — of bird to human transmission; and that mutations in the virus that could confer drug resistance & human transmissibility are already being seen.

Two scientists who independently concocted potentially dangerous strains of bird flu viruses — and have had the bioweapons community in a tizzy for the past month with the pending publication of their work — today said that they would suspend their research for 60 days.

The Minister of Health of Indonesia, Dr. Siti Supari, has insisted for several years that it is not the duty of her country to share samples of H5N1 bird flu viruses that emerged there, and now she's added a host of other viruses to the list of things she will not share.

After stirring up controversy by creating airborne - transmissible versions of one deadly bird flu virus, scientists intend to do it again with another.

Taiwanese officials have found their first case of the H7N9 bird flu virus, meaning the mysterious new bug has escaped the Chinese mainland.

A chilled chicken sample from China found containing a bird flu virus was sold by a Hong Kong vendor, SCMP reports.

A bird flu virus wiped out millions of chickens on commercial farms this spring, causing egg supplies to dwindle and prices to skyrocket.

The new virus has been recently identified by the World Health Organization as being similar to the H5N1 bird flu virus that killed 360 people worldwide in 2003, but deadlier and more easily transmitted from poultry to humans...

Kawaoka modified the H1N1 flu virus with a gene from the H5N1 bird flu virus, which caused a major human outbreak in 2009.

The H5N1 bird flu virus may be evolving the ability to spread from mammal to mammal, says a team who have discovered that pigs in Indonesia have been infected with the disease since 2005.

Earlier in his career, at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Munster took part in the controversial «gain of function» experiments that engineered the lethal H5N1 bird flu virus to spread more readily among mammals — including, presumably, people.

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.

That year, US government officials were faced with the double threat of H1N1 swine flu, which threatened to explode into a devastating pandemic, and the more deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, which was continuing to infect small numbers of people.

The H5N1 bird flu virus has been discovered in poultry in two states in India, and in five governorates of Egypt, including the megacity of Cairo, over the past three days.

A group of 22 international influenza experts convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) has concluded that journals should publish the full details of two controversial experiments with the bird flu virus, H5N1.

Hangartner was also able to demonstrate that bird flu viruses are significantly more vulnerable to such a broad - ranging attack: «It's certainly possible that this tail is one of the reasons why we're not that easily infected with bird flu viruses.»

Two labs have made lethal, highly transmissible versions of bird flu virus — do the risks of it escaping outweigh the benefits of the research?

The 11 - page study, led by Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the University of Tokyo, describes how the research group stitched a mutated version of a key viral protein called hemagglutinin from the bird flu virus known as H5N1 onto the human H1N1 virus that caused a relatively mild pandemic in 2009.

A few months before, in April, a bird flu virus had arisen in the poultry farms of eastern Pennsylvania, but veterinarians had deemed it to be «low pathogenic» — meaning it made chickens sick but did not kill many of them.

Bird flu viruses are potentially highly lethal and pose a global threat, but relatively little is known about why certain strains spread more easily to humans than others.

The bird flu virus also infected seven poultry workers, one of whom developed mild influenza symptoms.

Some strains of bird flu viruses are highly lethal in birds they infect and pose a major threat to poultry farms worldwide.

China is planning to shut live poultry markets in some cities for good, and studies show the H7N9 bird flu virus can spread through the air in ferrets

There researchers in the lab of Ron Fouchier (who made headlines in 2012 for work on the bird flu virus H5N1

A group led by molecular biologist Angela Römer - Oberdörfer of the Friedrich - Loeffler Institute in Riems, Germany, added a gene from the bird flu virus to a commercially available Newcastle vaccine.

Concerns over so - called «gain - of - function» (GOF) studies that make pathogens more potent or likely to spread in people erupted in 2011, when Kawaoka's team and Ron Fouchier's lab at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, announced that they had modified the H5N1 bird flu virus to enable it to spread between ferrets.

The destruction of the influenza A and bird flu viruses was nearly as complete, a 99 % kill.

Maggie, same thing as with Indonesia wanting to keep control of the bird flu virus.

A cover article this weekend about shelter cats in New York City infected with H7N2, also known as the bird flu virus, misstates the surname of a volunteer working at a temporary quarantine center.