Sentences with phrase «for avian influenza»

Prepare solicitations and provide technical review (including safety and efficacy data) of proposals for avian influenza, classical swine fever, Rift valley fever, and other vaccines.

Developed business continuity plans, to include response plans for avian influenza, significant natural disasters and labor stoppages.

Treating Avian Influenza in Dogs: Veterinarian reviewed information on the treatment options for Avian Influenza.

Only in rare cases have dogs been known to become infected with avian influenza, and most of the studies of dogs which tested positive for avian influenza were performed in dogs which were infected with the virus for laboratory studies.

When hundreds of cats in the New York City Animal Care and Control shelters tested positive for avian influenza last year, everyone involved set their only goal — saving the cats» lives.

She has assisted the poultry industry in the implementation of control, prevention, and treatment programs for avian influenza and other respiratory pathogens, and for the more infamous bacteria salmonella.

In addition the Smith - Kilborne summer program involvement, Brewer also will be participating this summer in an internship working with the state veterinarian's office to monitor poultry flocks for avian influenza.

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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.

The register was set up to help minimise the effects of avian influenza and assurances were made by Defra at the time that personal information would only be used for this purpose.

(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.)

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.

► Last month, Science's news department reported an incident in March in which the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sent the U.S. Department of Agriculture a sample of low - pathogenicity H9N2 avian influenza that was contaminated by deadly H5N1 avian influenza strain.

Related sites World Organization for Animal Health's avian influenza page More about avian influenza from the WHO

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

Now researchers report new evidence for such a link: Mice infected with the H5N1 avian influenza virus lose the same dopamine - releasing neurons that are destroyed by Parkinson's disease.

It shows that a particularly troublesome strain of avian influenza, designated H5N1, which has been worrying public health officials for more than a decade, has the potential to become a human pandemic.

Also this week, a large, international group of researchers is calling for a Global Initiative on Sharing Avian Influenza Data, Capua notes (Science, 25 August).

At the request of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, Science and Nature have agreed to strike key details from papers in press describing how researchers made the deadly H5N1 avian influenza virus more transmissible between mammals.

«To provide time for these discussions, we have agreed on a voluntary pause of 60 days on any research involving highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 viruses leading to the generation of viruses that are more transmissible in mammals.»

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.

The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) in Paris announced yesterday that it had been informed by Nigerian authorities about an outbreak of avian influenza in the northern state of Kaduna.

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»).

Thus, avian A / H5N1 influenza viruses can acquire the capacity for airborne transmission between mammals without recombination in an intermediate host and therefore constitute a risk for human pandemic influenza.

The support, announced here at the International Pledging Conference on Avian and Human Pandemic Influenza, far exceeds the $ 1.5 billion expected, according to a statement issued by European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection Markos Kyprianou.

«New NDV - H5NX avian influenza vaccine has potential for mass vaccination of poultry.»

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.

By identifying where waterfowl are in the valley, waterfowl biologists from USGS are able to take samples from the birds to look for prevalence of avian influenza, helping to build pathogen risk models for the poultry industry in the region.

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.

Potential for Low - Pathogenic Avian H7 Influenza A Viruses To Replicate and Cause Disease in a Mammalian Model.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 27, 2017 — Moderna Therapeutics, a clinical stage biotechnology company that is pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) Therapeutics ™ to create a new generation of transformative medicines for patients, today announced positive interim data from an ongoing Phase 1 study of mRNA - 1440, an mRNA infectious disease vaccine against avian H10N8 influenza, demonstrating mRNA - 1440 induced high levels of immunogenicity, and was safe and well tolerated.

In April 2017, Moderna published human data for its mRNA vaccine technology in Molecular Therapy, which showed that its first prophylactic vaccine candidate, mRNA - 1440 — an mRNA prophylactic vaccine against avian H10N8 influenza — induced high levels of immunogenicity and was safe and well tolerated.

Three Emory scientists have signed a letter published last week in Nature and Science outlining proposed research on the H7N9 avian influenza virus. A strain of H7N9 transmitted from poultry to humans was responsible for 43 deaths in China earlier this year, but so far, evidence shows that the virus does not transmit easily from human to human.

The study, «Preferential Recognition of Avian - Like Receptors in Human Influenza A H7N9 Viruses,» received support from the National Institutes for Health (R56 AI099275), the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, the Scripps Microarray Core Facility, the Centers for Disease Control and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.

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.

Something like 70 percent of human diseases generally start in animals first (avian influenza, mad cow, chronic wasting disease) and then spread to humans, so we're seeing more demand for public health specialists.

According to the American Veterinary Medical Association, «Currently, there is no USDA - licensed vaccine against H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza infection available for use in companion animals in the United States.»

However, avian influenza is very contagious among birds and can be deadly for some domesticated birds, including chickens, ducks, and turkeys.

As dogs have been infected with both mammalian and avian influenza viruses, they have the potential to act like pigs, as «mixing vessel» hosts for the generation of new strains.

Additionally, for your avian patients, a thorough understanding of the risk that avian influenza poses (and its accompanying eradication response in the US) is the best defense.

Over 40 cats from the Animal Care Centers of New York City (ACC) facility in Manhattan have tested positive for low pathogenic avian influenza A, H7N2 (LPAI).

- For each topic you should define what it / geographical area WHO set up Global Outbreak Altert and Resoinse Network WHO is called Alarmist due to there predictions about the Avian Influenza Food / borders.

The World Health Organization's Avian Influenza Fact Sheet indicates two causes for concern of which travelers need to be aware: