Sentences with phrase «make avian flu»
Kawaoka says he believes that the board's revised decision was influenced by a better understanding of the public - health implications of the work, which described the changes in a key viral protein called hemagglutinin that could make avian flu more transmissible among mammals.
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Although avian flu made few headlines in 2007, the virus continued to claim lives in Asia, particularly in Indonesia.
So while avian flu continues to make headlines, Nipah is also a virus to watch.
Frankel took the example of the avian flu research that in 2011 sparked a fierce debate about whether it should be published, given that it identified mutations that could make the H5N1 virus much more transmittable to humans.
The study found that the federally funded vaccine, made by the French drug firm Sanofi - Aventis, is safe and capable of producing antibodies to ward off the current strain of avian flu.
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.
Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin at Madison studied a hybrid flu virus made from the avian H5 and the human H1N1 pandemic flu of 2009.
State officials report several geese have tested positive for a lethal strain of avian flu, making Michigan the 21st state to confirm a case of the disease
The accusation that Capua and others set off a human epidemic made no sense, she said, because one mild flu case does not constitute an epidemic; moreover, the avian virus she allegedly spread was a different strain than the one that killed the birds in Italy.
We knew it was going to be avian flu or swine flu that made the jump into humans and we've always been concerned about flu viruses that infect swine, birds, and humans — there are 30 or so in total.
It's for when you get the avian flu and aren't going to make your slot with your editor, and aren't sure you could make a pushback date, either, or the house washes away in a flood and you weren't even thinking about when your cover artist finished her painting and wants paid.
The prospect that scientists have created a lethal strain of avian flu and are on the verge of publishing their technique in the world's leading scientific journal has reopened the debate over science's aspiration to «universal knowledge» in two distinct senses: Should science investigate everything, and should its findings be made available to everyone?