Sentences with phrase «for human influenza»

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The document was crafted to help foodservice distributors — and other members of the foodservice supply channel — plan for the far - reaching effects of a human influenza pandemic.

As carriers — and fertile mixing grounds — for influenza A strains that could cause illness or even pandemic in humans, hogs are important subjects for flu researchers.

Pigs can catch human strains as well, and influenza is one of the most costly porcine pathogens for the $ 19 - billion, 113 - million - hog U.S. industry.

In 1980 Fiers first sequenced the gene for hemagglutinin derived from the human influenza strain H3N2 that circulated in 1965.

Nelson and her colleagues found that flu in pigs «follows long - distance swine movements from the southern U.S. to the Midwest,» with most of the human - origin H1N1 arriving at Midwest hog farms coming from the Southeast, and most of the swine - origin H1N2 coming from the south - central U.S. And that means the Midwest, as the final destination for many of these pigs, is «likely to provide a reservoir for multiple genetically distinct variants to co-circulate and exchange segments via re-assortment because of the continual importation of swine influenza viruses from other regions,» the researchers noted.

These animals are common hosts for the influenza virus, which comes in a wide range of strengths and types — some of which can infect humans.

Weiner, Elliott and colleagues studied the DNA sequences for two human monoclonal antibodies — one able to broadly target influenza A viruses and one able to broadly target influenza B viruses — with collaborators at Inovio and MedImmune.

If further studies in humans prove successful, this research could have broad implications for the prevention of influenza and, by extension, as an approach for other infectious diseases as well.

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...

«I'm not saying that everyone who has influenza is cognitively impaired for 10 years,» he says, noting that human brains are much more complex than those of mice.

Unlike flu viruses that affect humans, the eight influenza genes in this H1N1 changed very little for 6 decades.

It's been well researched, by studies, by world organizations, by the Centre for Disease Control in Atlanta, other organizations that have all unanimously come to the conclusion that consumption of pork is not a risk factor for transmission of influenza virus from swine to human.

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.

And of particular concern is the fact that pig cells are uniquely receptive to influenza viruses from swine, humans, and birds, making swine a dangerous «mixing vessel» for new variants.

The loss was bad for the vaccine: In a series of experiments Hensley and his colleagues showed antibodies from humans and ferrets (a good animal model for influenza A studies) that had been exposed to the egg - grown vaccine did not effectively kill the circulating sugar - adorned viruses.

Using the RNAi and CRISPR / Cas9 screening technologies they'd developed for dengue and influenza, George Savidis, research associate, Paul Meraner, MD, postdoctoral fellow, and William M. McDougall, PhD, postdoctoral associate, in the Brass lab, began by knocking out or depleting each protein in the human genome one at a time, then seeing how Zika or dengue virus grew when that human protein was gone.

Indeed, weakening influenza strains by passaging them in animals is an old technique for making human vaccines, including those for polio and yellow fever, according to virologist Vincent Racaniello of Columbia University.

Humans are the only known hosts for Haemophilus influenzae bacteria, a family comprised of many different strains, the most well - known of which is type b, or Hib.

«Ferrets may be the best model for influenza, but ferrets in cages treated with antipyretics are very different from human populations,» he says.

Through a process called recombination, which had not previously been seen in influenza viruses, parts of the human and swine virus genes had joined together to create a totally new antigen, one that human immune systems were unprepared for (Science, 11 May, p. 1041).

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.

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.

The three labs together identified several hundred human genes that influenza hijacks for its own benefit, but in most cases the groups each hit on different ones: Only about 30 genes overlap, an outcome that's «very surprising,» says Peter Palese, a virologist at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, who co-authored the paper with Chanda.

One of the more intriguing findings came out of a choice in Elledge's lab to hunt for human proteins that interfere with influenza virus replication, as opposed to those that assist it.

The influenza virus makes itself at home in human cells and hijacks our proteins for its own ends.

Clinical samples were also sent to an outside laboratory (Focus Diagnostics, Cypress, CA) for respiratory viral testing by centrifugation - enhanced shell vial culture followed by direct fluorescent antibody staining for 8 viruses (respiratory syncytial virus, adenovirus, influenza virus A and B, parainfluenza virus types 1, 2, and 3, and human metapneumovirus).

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Proteins targeted for structure determination by SSGCID are selected for their biomedical relevance in human pathogens such as Ebola and Zika, as well as those responsible for tuberculosis, leprosy, malaria, and influenza.

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.

The study relates to a particular type of vaccine (killed) against a particular virus, influenza, though the findings might hold true for other killed vaccines and for those vaccines consisting only of proteins produced by GM in bacteria, yeast or insect cells, against diseases such as hepatitis B (HBV) and human papilloma virus (HPV, the causative agent of cervical cancer).

The idea behind a â $ œHuman Vaccine Projectâ $ is to combine efforts at developing vaccines for major (but very different) diseases such as influenza, dengue, HIV, hepatitis C, tuberculosis and malaria, with the rationale that what scientists working on those diseases have in common is the Ray Ban outlet challenge of working with the human immune system.

Pigs are natural hosts for influenza viruses that can infect humans, in particular the 2009 and, going way back, 1918 H1N1 flu strains.

«Using an animal model that's relevant to human disease, Fouchier and Kawaoka have shown that relatively few mutations may be required for an influenza virus to evolve into astrain that can pass effectively between individuals and cause serious illness.

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.

Waisman Biomanufacturing, notes Ross, has a long history of producing experimental vaccines for clinical trials, including for HIV, influenza, hepatitis, herpes and human papillomavirus, among others.

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.

However, influenza viruses are constantly changing via random mutation and it is possible for a virus to mutate so that it could one day cross infect and spread easily between humans.

Canine influenza viruses (CIV) have never been proven to be transmissible to humans, but it's always best to err on the side of safety and take precautions to disinfect when caring for a sick pup, especially if there are other dogs in the house.

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.

For example, unlike human flu, canine influenza does not follow a season.

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) monitors the human influenza virus and updates how vaccines are produced to provide maximum protection.

He has also generated attenuated viruses as vaccine candidates, for the treatment of influenza and arenavirus infections in humans and other mammalians.

Considering that people can be infected regardless of vaccination status and that not everyone will be immunized, it's important that we recognize the potential for humans to pass a microorganism like the influenza virus to our pets.

While humans can't contract canine influenza, we can carry the virus on our hands and clothing for up to 24 hours after handling an infected dog.

Canine influenza spreads the same way that human flu spreads - through direct contact (kissing, licking, nuzzling); through the air (coughing or sneezing from 20 + feet away); and via contaminated surfaces (surfaces such as concrete where the virus can live for up to 48 hours).

«As for other species becoming infected, there have been no reports or evidence that H3N2 influenza can infect humans.

However, influenza viruses are constantly changing and it is possible for a virus to change so that it could infect humans and spread easily between humans.