Sentences with phrase «for avian flu»

If the covered lagoon method (pictured) proves to be globally valuable for business, the upshot is a large scale incentive to prevent lagoon flooding or leakage, and the resulting loss of raw material (the poop) needed profit from a waste that, if not carefully retained to extract economic value, offends neighbors, is a potential disease vector (for Avian flu for example) and poses an ecological hazard to downstream waters.

Do we have to wait for avian flu to become pandemic, or for hemorraghic fevers to hit the US (neither of which is far - fetched)?

For folks concerned that this is the next bird flu, it's not worth the alarm, as the virus responsible for avian flu is much more serious, compared to the bacterial psittacosis (Also, it's worth noting that the H7N9 avian virus has not been detected in the United States — neither in humans nor birds.)

There currently is no vaccine for avian flu, which is caused by a highly contagious virus that is often fatal to birds and can be passed to humans (ScienceNOW, 9 February).

Is there any treatment for avian flu?

According to the report, «mass movements of commercial poultry without strict health control is a more parsimonious explanation for avian flu spread.»

Not exact matches

Sales of the startup's eggless mayo boomed during 2015's avian bird flu epidemic — an incident that revealed much about the fragile nature of Earth's reliance on animals for food.

The combined pressures of climate change and epidemics sweeping through intensive animal agriculture such as H5N2 avian flu and porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) are growing challenges for industrial agriculture, and workers organizing to demand fair pay and conditions combined with increasing consumer pressure for greater transparency and better treatment of land, animals, and workers, are having an effect.

The government promised to pay the farmers about GH cents 11 million as compensation for culling 111,000 birds during the Avian influenza (bird flu) outbreak two years ago.

Government chief vet declares «prevention zone» for England as highly infectious strain of avian flu hits Europe

Head of gamekeeping and game shooting, Stewart Scull, said: «I was involved in the original discussions about establishing the poultry register in 2005 when Defra gave assurances that any information provided would only be used for its intended purpose, to combat avian flu.

(These proteins serve as the basis for influenza nomenclature; for instance, the H5N1 virus refers to specific classes of hemagglutinin and neuraminidase, which in this example correspond to an avian flu subtype.)

The U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) on March 30 recommended the publication of two controversial avian flu papers.

As controversy rages around the scientists who created mutant strains of the H5N1 avian influenza virus, leading flu researchers have called for a 60 - day voluntary pause on such work.

Take us through, for example, H5N1, avian influenza A, commonly known as bird flu, which has been a problem particularly in Asia for the past decade.

The new flu, known as H7N9 avian influenza, latches onto sugars that coat bird cells — and it can cling to sugars on human cells too, Yuelong Shu of the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention and colleagues...

Instead, it uses information the CDC posts in the Global Initiative on Sharing Avian Influenza Data (GISAID) database, launched in 2006 by a number of science institutes and universities worldwide (including WHO, the CDC and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics) to encourage data - sharing in response to the global spread of the H5N1 avianAvian Influenza Data (GISAID) database, launched in 2006 by a number of science institutes and universities worldwide (including WHO, the CDC and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics) to encourage data - sharing in response to the global spread of the H5N1 avianavian flu.

[During] the avian flu epidemic in Southeast Asia -LSB-, for example,] important papers on the threatening nature of the disease «went unnoticed because they were published in Chinese - language journals,»» Montgomery notes in the book, quoting an article by David Cyranoski in Nature.

From avian flu to cholera, infectious diseases may not be able to hide for long.

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.

Children and adults have contracted avian flu while shopping for groceries.

One particular strain of H5N1, called highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), is responsible for the «bird flu» scares.

«Potential antibody treatment for H7 avian flu.»

First, they ruled out avian flu by testing serum samples from the animals for flu antibodies.

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.

All subtypes (but not all strains of all subtypes) of Influenza A virus are adapted to birds, which is why for many purposes avian flu virus is the Influenza A virus (note that the «A» does not stand for «avian»).

Avian flu can acquire the capacity for airborne transmission between mammals without recombination in an intermediate host.

State officials report several geese have tested positive for a lethal strain of avian flu, making Michigan the 21st state to confirm a case of the disease

The new flu, known as H7N9 avian influenza, latches onto sugars that coat bird cells — and it can cling to sugars on human cells too, Yuelong Shu of the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention and colleagues report July 3 in Nature.

Biologists looking for an efficient way to halt the spread of avian flu have hit upon a promising twofer.

Immunochemist Wayne Marasco of Harvard Medical School in Boston and colleagues discovered an unchanging part of hemagglutinin that might provide a better target when they were looking for antibodies that neutralize the avian flu.

Chat with experts about what the avian flu papers mean for scientific freedom and international security

In another development, doctors announced last week that, for the first time, an experimental vaccine appears to protect some people against the H5N1 avian flu (SN: 9/10/05, p. 171: When Flu Flies the Cooflu (SN: 9/10/05, p. 171: When Flu Flies the CooFlu Flies the Coop).

Rao has worked as a consultant for the World Bank and other international agencies and has contributed to policies on epidemics like AIDS, avian influenza and swine flu.

More importantly, Gack found that avian, swine, and human flu viruses block TRIM25 to evade immune defense by RIG - I, unraveling a molecular target for the design of antiviral drugs and vaccines.

It is equally important, however, that scientific knowledge is allowed to progress if we are to optimise preparedness for potential outbreaks of avian flu and other pathogens.

From WebMD: «Lauric acid is used for treating viral infections including influenza (the flu); swine flu; avian flu; the common cold; fever blisters, cold sores, and genital herpes caused by herpes simplex virus (HSV); genital warts caused by human papillomavirus (HPV); and HIV / AIDS.

For example, my students once researched and wrote about public health concerns such as the avian flu.

It's for when you get the avian flu and aren't going to make your slot with your editor, and aren't sure you could make a pushback date, either, or the house washes away in a flood and you weren't even thinking about when your cover artist finished her painting and wants paid.

Look at these blogs, numerous since the Stevenson trial: All this talk of killing, poisoning, calling cats criminals for walking on plants to pooping in gardens, and calling for their deaths... what about birds, pooping on our windshields, on our sidewalks, taking down airplanes, causing the avian flu that killed 50 million people 80 yrs ago, and preparing to do the exact same thing again... still are cat people joking about putting about poison bird seed, mass extermination of birds...

At a quarantine center in Queens for cats exposed to a rare strain of avian flu, workers must wear full protective gear at all times, even playtime.

NPR reports that the recent outbreak of H5N2, or avian flu, has caused economic hardship for American farmers, to the point that the USDA is importing eggs from the Netherlands to meet demand.

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.

But glow - in - the - dark features aren't the traits these birds are being breed for, but rather the ability to help fight the spread of avian bird flu.

«Economist Gary Becker says, «Hurricane Katrina and now the danger of an avian flu pandemic — one an actual, the other a potential, catastrophe for which the nation failed or is failing to prepare adequately — underscore the need for institutional reforms that will overcome policy myopia based on inability to plan seriously for responding to catastrophes of slight or unknown probability but huge potential harm,» Judge Richard Posner responds.»

For some, having to desist such practices because of concerns over avian flu could cause life to lose all meaning.