Sentences with phrase «new avian influenza»

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — New York officials are banning all feathered fowl from all fairs across the state this year, a reaction to the latest outbreak of avian influenza.

There is no avian influenza in New York, state agriculture officials said today.

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.

In February 2004, avian influenza virus was detected in birds in Vietnam, increasing fears of the emergence of new variant strains.

Finches, parakeets and sparrows are the ultimate source of H7N9 avian influenza, a new study concludes.

This time, the experiments will involve H7N9, a new strain of avian influenza that infected 134 people in China this year, killing 43.

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...

A new version of the H7N9 avian influenza virus might be able to cause widespread infection and should be closely monitored, scientists say, although it currently doesn't spread easily between people.

The H5N1 avian influenza strain developed strong resistance to oseltamivir, better known as Tamiflu, in two Vietnamese patients who died from the virus early this year, according to a new study.

A new study has found that a novel avian - origin H7N9 influenza A virus, which has recently emerged in humans, attaches moderately or abundantly to the epithelium of both the upper and lower respiratory tracts.

Now researchers report new evidence for such a link: Mice infected with the H5N1 avian influenza virus lose the same dopamine - releasing neurons that are destroyed by Parkinson's disease.

The avian influenza that killed 1000 or more migratory birds at Lake Qinghai in western China in mid-May may represent a new and more lethal form of the HN51 virus, Chinese researchers report.

The antibodies against H7subtype viruses exhibit «remarkable neutralizing potency,» and thus may represent a new way to protect people who have been exposed to or infected by avian influenza, they reported today in The Journal of Clinical Investigation.

Since the team finished their analyses, at least two new zoonotic diseases have emerged — the H7N9 avian influenza strain and Middle East respiratory syndrome.

More than half of the new infectious diseases that plague humanity — including avian influenza, West Nile virus, SARS, and even Ebola — originated from animals.

Avian influenza virus H7N9, which killed several dozen people in China earlier this year, has not yet acquired the changes needed to infect humans easily, according to a new study by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI).

«New NDV - H5NX avian influenza vaccine has potential for mass vaccination of poultry.»

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.

The current epizootic in the Far East caused by avian influenza virus A (H5N1) has led to real concern about the possibility of a new pandemic of influenza.12 Technological innovation, such as the use of new vaccines delivered by the intradermal route, offers great promise to change and improve on current immunization strategies.

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...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 27, 2017 — Moderna Therapeutics, a clinical stage biotechnology company that is pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) Therapeutics ™ to create a new generation of transformative medicines for patients, today announced positive interim data from an ongoing Phase 1 study of mRNA - 1440, an mRNA infectious disease vaccine against avian H10N8 influenza, demonstrating mRNA - 1440 induced high levels of immunogenicity, and was safe and well tolerated.

LA JOLLA, CA — December 5, 2013 — Avian influenza virus H7N9, which killed several dozen people in China earlier this year, has not yet acquired the changes needed to infect humans easily, according to a new study by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI).

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.

When Avian Influenza H7N2 infected cats in a New York City animal shelter last year, it was the first outbreak of its kind, and the first documented case of cat - to - cat transmission.

Over 40 cats from the Animal Care Centers of New York City (ACC) facility in Manhattan have tested positive for low pathogenic avian influenza A, H7N2 (LPAI).

When Avian Influenza H7N2 infected cats in a New York City animal shelter, it was the first outbreak of its kind, and the first documented case of cat - to - cat transmission.

When hundreds of cats in the New York City Animal Care and Control shelters tested positive for avian influenza last year, everyone involved set their only goal — saving the cats» lives.

Just last month we reported on a a new variant of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza (called H5N1 — 2.3.2.1) that was found in China and Vietnam.

First a new strain of avian influenza was reported to have infected humans.