Swine flu first proposed to be a disease related to
human influenza during the 1918 flu pandemic, known as Spanish flu, it infected about 500 million resulting in 50 million deaths.
Early in the disease, distemper can be confused with
human influenza to which ferrets are also susceptible.
«As with
the human influenza, there is a risk for secondary bacterial infections which can be serious.
Internal parasites, such as Coccidia and Giardia, can cause diarrhea, as can viruses such as rotavirus (seen in young ferrets in North America), epizootic catarrhal enteritis (ECE, which is becoming more common in ferrets, typically in either very young or old ferrets) and, sometimes,
human influenza or canine distemper (fatal in ferrets).
Ferrets are also susceptible to
human influenza virus which can share the same symptoms as distemper.
«Unlike
human influenza, this virus is not seasonal, so it can be contracted at any time of the year,» Nelson said in a university news release.
Just like
human influenza, dog flu is unpleasant.
Just like with
human influenza, most who contract the disease will make a full recovery without intervention.
This virus is to be respected, as should be
the human influenza virus.
More importantly, Tamiflu ® represents a primary line of defense against
a human influenza pandemic.
Human influenza, swine flu and avian flu viruses are different, yet closely related.
The disease can also contaminate bowls, leashes, collars, and the hands and clothing of people who handle ill dogs, so just as with
human influenza, frequent hand washing and disinfection may help in preventing the spread of CIV.
Do you realize
human influenza virus can transmit to pets?
Just like
human influenza, «dog flu» is spread through respiratory secretions or contact with infected surfaces.
It is important to remember that Canine Influenza Virus is a new disease in the canine world, and much like
the human influenza, there are multiple strains.
«On rare occasions, dogs have been found to be infected with
human influenza A viruses,» says Landolt.
A veterinarian might decide to run a rapid, «on - site» test, or immunoassay, to support a possible flu diagnosis, which reliably detects components of
human influenza A in human respiratory secretions.
Much the same as
human influenza, this virus can be spread through direct contact with a contaminated surface.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) monitors
the human influenza virus and updates how vaccines are produced to provide maximum protection.
Diseases: Ferrets are susceptible to
the human influenza virus.
If there's
a human influenza virus in New York, and you get coveted tickets to a Knicks game or a Lady Gaga concert, do you still go?
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.
Her first major discovery, in 2006, identified a loop in the nucleoprotein of the H1N1
human influenza virus.
Duke researchers have devised a way to keep
the human influenza virus from mutating during production, generating a perfect match to the target vaccine in a shorter time frame.
For influenza we offer the ferret model, the «gold standard» for infections with
human influenza viruses, which will be used to assess the efficacy of vaccine candidates.
Even a limited sampling (31 whole - genome sequences) revealed extensive reassortment between the human - origin swine viruses and other swine and
human influenza viruses over a 7 - year period.
If bird flu and
human influenza swapped genes, the results might not be as disastrous as some have expected
Unlike
human influenza viruses, the teams report, H5N1 preferentially infects cells in the lower respiratory tract.
The human influenza virus H1N1 that caused the 2009 flu pandemic, and H9N2, an avian influenza virus that is endemic in bird populations in Asia, are close cousins — close enough that they can swap genes if they find themselves in the same cell, resulting in new viruses that are a patchwork of the parent strains.
In stark contrast to contemporary
human influenza H1N1 viruses, the 1918 pandemic virus had the ability to replicate in the absence of trypsin, caused death in mice and embryonated chicken eggs, and displayed a high - growth phenotype in human bronchial epithelial cells.
Human influenza researchers, who mainly work with ferrets and mice as models, have turned up provocative findings about the new virus in a remarkably short time.
An analysis of 10 years» worth of data on
human influenza B viruses has shed new light on the pathogen which can cause the seasonal flu.
A new study, led by Assistant Professor Vijay Dhanasekaran and Associate Professor Gavin Smith from Duke - NUS Graduate Medical School (Duke - NUS), has presented the largest comparative analysis of
human influenza B viruses undertaken to date.
The experimental vaccine, described in next month's Nature Biotechnology, could lead to
a human influenza vaccine that uses up to 1000 times less DNA than current experimental vaccines.
Genetic analysis shows that the virus is a mix of avian and swine viruses from North America, a swine flu strain usually seen in Asia, and
a human influenza strain.
Using virus histochemical analysis, the investigators looked at the pattern of attachment of two genetically engineered emerging H7 viruses (containing the hemagglutinin (HA) of either influenza virus A / Shanghai / 1 / 13 or A / Anhui / 1 / 13) to fixed human respiratory tract tissues and compared the findings to attachment patterns seen with
human influenza viruses with high transmissibility but low virulence (seasonal H3N2 and pandemic H1N1) and highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses with low transmissibility and high virulence (H5N1 and H7N7).
«These characteristics fit with increased virulence of these emerging avian H7 viruses compared to that of
human influenza viruses,» says Dr. Kuiken.
In 1980 Fiers first sequenced the gene for hemagglutinin derived from
the human influenza strain H3N2 that circulated in 1965.
It is feared that if the avian influenza virus combines with
a human influenza virus (in a bird or a human), the new subtype created could be both highly contagious and highly lethal in humans.
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.
«The influenza field is largely fixated on studying pandemic or potential pandemic viruses, but those viruses only infect a few dozen people every year whereas seasonal flu infects millions — and yet we don't study
human influenzas closely enough.»
As
human influenzas emerge, these terms may be in the news and it is of interest to know what they refer to.
Not exact matches
That compound has also been tested in
humans against SARS, certain
influenza viruses, and Ebola.
This was the most severe
influenza outbreak of the twentieth century and, in terms of total numbers of deaths, possibly the most devastating epidemic in
human history.
Monolaurin is the anti-viral, antibacterial, and antiprotozoal monoglyceride used by the
human or animal to destroy lipid coated viruses such as HIV, herpes, cytomegalovirus,
influenza, various pathogenic bacteria including listeria monocytogenes and heliobacter pylori, and protozoa such as giardia lamblia.
An infectious disease caused by type - A strains of the
influenza virus that is transmittable from birds to
humans.
In Canada, vaccines prevent illnesses such as diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), polio, Haemophilus
influenzae type B (Hib), rotavirus, hepatitis B, measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, pneumococcal and meningococcal diseases, and
human papillomavirus virus (HPV).
Other references cite that
human milk components are, in vitro, able to degrade many pathogens including but not limited to N. gonorrheae, H.
influenzae, V. cholera, H. pylori, S. flexneri, and B. pertussis.
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.