Sentences with phrase «new avian flu»

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Beef prices are on the rise, eggs have become a premium product as the avian flu continues to kill thousands of chickens and states such as New York are setting higher minimum wages.

Story number 3: Migratory birds appear to be the major cause of new cases in new regions of avian flu.

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...

The production cycle is so long that the avian flu could evolve to bypass the new vaccine or any vaccine in production.

The finding is exciting «because it suggests that the seasonal flu vaccine boosts antibody responses and may provide some measure of protection against a new pandemic strain that could emerge from the avian population,» said senior study author Paul G. Thomas, PhD, an Associate Member in the Department of Immunology at St. Jude.

The specter of the 1918 Spanish flu — which may have started in the United States, not Spain, and killed about 20 million to 50 million people worldwide — has prompted public - health authorities to predict that we are unprepared to deal with a pandemic based on a highly pathogenic new strain of the H5N1 avian flu.

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 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.

Microbiologist Peter Palese from Mount Sinai Medical School in New York City led the second team, which added the avian flu H7, another hemagglutinin subtype, to a weakened strain of the Newcastle vaccine.

Close disease surveillance and targeted use of anti-viral drugs could be enough to keep a small outbreak of avian flu from becoming the first influenza pandemic in 36 years, according to a new...

«New» Avian Flu will destroy all life on...

The new viruses that are created by this process are more likely to be able to jump to a new species than those created by the simple mutations of antigenic drift (which is why «swine flu» and «avian flu» are portrayed as particularly ominous in relation to human infection).

New research finds a close connection between the flu that devastated the horse population in North America in the 1870s and the avian flu of that period.

And the new simmering disease appear one by one, Aids, SARS, avian flu and so on.

It's worth pondering this question anew, given the debate that's erupted over efforts to limit publication of details of new research producing a deadly strain of the H5N1 avian flu virus that's transmissible in ferrets, which are a research stand - in for humans.

Med fruit fly, Avian Flu, H1N1, soil depletion, over population, on and on, and they come around as frequently as new claims of free energy or over unity machines.