Sentences with phrase «like avian influenza»

Not like avian influenza Canine influenza is significantly different than avian influenza.

«Should someone have an unusual influenza, like avian influenza, you could quickly isolate that person.»

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SM: In humans, the normal influenza receptors we have in the upper respiratory tract are not like the avian receptors H7N9 needs.

They found that like other avian influenza viruses, the H7N9 viruses attached more strongly to lower parts of the human respiratory tract than to upper parts.

This image from the work shows the binding of avian - like glycan receptors (yellow spheres) to the 2013 H7N9 influenza virus hemagglutinin (in ribbon diagram).

Trying to avert a future catastrophe, like an outbreak of avian influenza, Bradt says, is «like holding a beach ball under water.»

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.

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.

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.

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.