Sentences with phrase «human flu»

By the eighth day, a time when the three control monkeys infected with a common human flu virus were recovering, the experimental animals were so sick that they had to be euthanized.

Unless your dog is real young, old, or ill, I think it is just like human flu strains and it will pass.

They do not provide 100 % protection (like human flu vaccines).

As with human flu shots, a vaccine for one strain doesn't help prevent another strain.

Like strains of human flu, canine influenza can be deadly.

In human flu season, thousands of people are infected.

Similar to vaccines for human flu, the vaccine for canine flu doesn't always prevent the flu but does reduce symptoms.

The following information includes a basic primer on what they are and how to keep your pets safe as well as some basics on influenza that apply to both canine and human flu infections.

To make a deadly human flu, you would need to passage the strain among humans, not ferrets — a difficult and ethically impossible experiment.

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

Just like human flu, dog flu can be a miserable experience.

Unlike most forms of human flu, to which people have some immunity, few dogs have had any previous exposure and therefore have not developed any resistance.

It spread the way human flu strains always do — coughs and sneezes.

Health officials say dog flu spreads the same way human flu does: through virus droplets in the air from a sneeze or cough, or by touching contaminated objects or surfaces.

A new pandemic strain that spreads the way normal human flu spreads, without the intensely crowded conditions of World War I, may be as virulent as the 1957 flu, which killed about 70,000 people in the United States.

The first human flu virus is isolated at Mill Hill in London.

However, like human flu shots, the vaccine for dog flu can not completely prevent the illness but it will help in lowering the chances of it occuring.

Fortunately, flu has a low mortality rate, but it can lead to cough, fever, and malaise, as human flu does in people.

H5N1 is also found in pigs in Indonesia, raising fears that it might reassort with other human flu viruses that pigs can harbour.

Although regular human flu viruses bound easily with the receptors found in the nose and throat cells, H5N1 strains attached only to those receptors on cells found in the deepest regions of the lungs.

The team infected mice with the 1918 virus, a modern human flu strain, and hybrids of the two in which either two or five of influenza's eight genes came from the 1918 virus.

It seems to have begun as a normal human flu strain that circulated in the United States in the spring of 1918.

The emergence of the new H1N1 flu strain has demonstrated the effectiveness of existing systems to watch for human flu outbreaks while also proving a long - standing theory that pigs could serve as mixing vessels for a pandemic virus.

As autumn arrives in the northern hemisphere, experts are on tenterhooks: a particular worry is that swine flu will hybridise with bird flu to create a readily contagious human flu armed with a lethal H5 surface protein.

Only comparable conditions, Ewald says, would allow the development of a highly virulent and transmissible human flu.

Precisely because people have to be healthy enough to walk around and cough into other people's faces, ordinary human flu strains must be relatively mild to spread.

To produce a truly lethal human flu or other virus, you would need the same sort of conditions that produced virulent chicken flu.

Fortunately, money and research directed toward pandemic preparations have dramatically improved human flu surveillance and response systems.

When a novel human flu evolves in pigs or poultry and becomes pandemic, the numbers can be even higher.

On one hand, the virus spreads too inefficiently between humans to seem like much of a threat: it has caused fewer than 600 known cases of human flu since first emerging in 1997.

Most seasonal flu viruses have human flu PB1 genes.

So, researchers at CDC and collaborators used a lab technique called reverse genetics to make combinations of H3N2, a seasonal human flu strain, and the 1997 strain of H5N1.

And the potentially most dangerous combinations — viruses containing genes for H5N1's surface proteins and for internal human flu virus proteins — not only didn't grow as well as H5N1 but also didn't spread at all between ferrets.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says this strain is so different from existing human flu viruses that most people have no immunity to it.

Researchers report in Nature today that they have perfected a way to manufacture monoclonal antibodies capable of destroying diseases such the avian flu, which have the ability to swap genes with human flu varieties and jump from birds to people.

ST. JULIAN»S, MALTA — The most aggressive of the circulating human flu strains is fast becoming resistant to a widely used class of flu drugs, researchers reported here last week at the Second European Influenza Conference.

Avian flu has a very low virulence, but the danger is that it could combine with a highly virulent human flu virus or mutate into a virus with a higher R number.

At a meeting in Geneva this week, the WHO asked pharmaceutical companies and governments for more antiviral drugs and ordinary flu vaccine to prevent chicken handlers being infected by human flu at the same time as bird flu.

Similar to human flu bugs, it is important to monitor the virus» progression for symptoms of pneumonia.

Although true flu among cats doesn't occur often, your cat can still develop respiratory problems and other symptoms that resemble human flu, as well as symptoms unlike those associated with human influenza.

The disease can be contracted and transmitted just like we get human flu; through coughing, sneezing and even by humans who have unknowingly pet a dog who is ill.

Anne T, the human vaccine companies have a lot of experience working with flu, and with manufacturing human flu vaccines.

Most human flu viruses are type B or C.

Many microbiologists and medical researchers say the basic methods used in this work are already established, and that the research details will help public health researchers get out ahead of the next human flu epidemic more than they might help aspiring terrorists.

Just like human flu vaccines, the H3N2 vaccine may not completely prevent infection, but will make it less likely.

As often seen in human flu infections, two clinical pictures have been seen in dogs infected with the canine influenza virus — a mild form of the disease and a more severe form that is accompanied by pneumonia.

Just like human flu vaccines, the H3N2 CIV vaccine may not completely prevent infection but will make it less likely.

It spreads in the same way human flu spreads, through the air via respiratory secretions and by touching or drinking from contaminated objects, or by sharing leashes and bowls.

Most cases of SARS gave rise to one new case, whereas each case of human flu can easily give rise to 10 new cases.

Like human flu shots, CIV vaccination may not prevent infection 100 %, but it may reduce the severity and duration of illness.