Sentences with phrase «deadly flu viruses»

Critics have pointed out that the same synthetic biology know - how and technologies could be used by terrorists or rogue states to engineer a bacterium that churns out a neurotoxin or, perhaps, a deadly flu virus with resistance to vaccines and antiviral medications.

For more on the federal lab lapses: Poor Oversight Catches Up with High - Security Infectious Agent and Disease Labs CDC Botched Handling of Deadly Flu Virus Bio-Unsafety Level 3: Could the Next Lab Accident Result in a Pandemic?

The murder investigation coincides with a deadly flu virus outbreak, resulting in the university being quarantined from the outside world.

The murder investigation coincides with a deadly flu virus

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The deadly H5N1 virus or bird flu has killed so many people worldwide, particularly in Asia and the Middle East, since 2013.

Vaccination is the best way to protect our community from the potentially deadly effects of the flu virus.»

Some flu experts fear that if a deadly virus like H5N1 can mutate enough to spread easily among people, no one will be prepared to deal with it.

They were particularly interested in the virus's molecular engineering because the 1918 «Spanish flu» was the most deadly pandemic in history, killing 20 million to 40 million worldwide.

This has already allowed scientists to assemble the poliovirus from scratch and to resurrect the deadly 1918 flu virus.

The 1917 virus had infection and mortality rates typical of seasonal flu, but a single mutation in the proteins affecting how the virus binds to a host cell may have led to the deadly 1918 wave, which killed more than 50 million people worldwide.

Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy in Minneapolis, points out that the 2004 document was based on input from an international panel of 22 scientists and public - health officials, in response to the threat of the deadly H5N1 avian flu virus.

Put another way, bird flu in Indonesia is about 8,000 times as deadly as the swine flu virus now making the rounds, according to global health expert Laurie Garrett of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City.

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.

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.

So far, the killer virus looks like a run - of - the - mill swine flu, not an avian virus as some virologists had suspected — leaving scientists to wonder why the strain was so deadly.

They report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that genes of the 1918 virus were most likely present in swine or human hosts at least 2 and possibly 15 years before the pandemic began and combined to form the deadly virus during multiple reassortments, presumably rare events in which flu viruses exchange genes.

A LAB reconstruction of the 1918 flu virus, cause of the deadliest global pandemic ever recorded, is showing frightening similarities with H5N1, the bird flu that killed dozens of people across east Asia last year.

Virologists Masato Hatta and Yoshihiro Kawaoka and their colleagues at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, decided to investigate what makes this particular strain of flu virus so deadly.

New findings are of particular interest to scientists now that the latest deadly strain of flu, H7N9, is spreading in China — 82 people in China had been infected with the new strain of flu virus as of April 26, and 17 had died.

Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, reported at a flu conference in Malta in September that giving H5N1 two mutations known to adapt it to mammals, then passing the modified virus repeatedly between ferrets, led to further mutations and an H5N1 that was just as deadly but spread readily in airborne droplets.

The World Health Organization is one step closer to declaring a pandemic due to the deadly H1N1 swine flu virus — but it says, «we are not there yet»

In solution, the antibodies could block not only H5 but also eight other types of flu virus, including the one responsible for the deadly 1918 — 19 flu pandemic.

Experts fear that Asian bird flu will mutate into a virus as deadly as the one that killed 40 million people in 1918

This year's deadly flu season has just about everybody scrambling to protect themselves from the virus.

In a recent development, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was forced to admit that a patented liquid silver solution called Axen30TM when used as a surface disinfectant had the ability to kill multiple strains of MRSA plus additional deadly pathogens such as Avian Influenza A (Bird Flu), Human Corona virus (SARS), Feline Calicivirus (Norovirus), Rotavirus, Campylobacter jjejuni and Acinetobacter baumannii.

It's worth pondering this question anew, given the debate that's erupted over efforts to limit publication of details of new research producing a deadly strain of the H5N1 avian flu virus that's transmissible in ferrets, which are a research stand - in for humans.

Here at People's Community Clinic, Immunization Supervisor Chelsea Watson does everything she can to fight flu, ensuring that our patients are vaccinated against this serious, and sometimes deadly, virus.