Sentences with phrase «of avian flu viruses»

From its sequence, researchers already knew that the 1918 HA gene resembled that of avian flu viruses.

According to Earl Brown, professor of medicine at the University of Ottawa, the more limited ability of the avian flu virus to infect cells in the human airway thus also appears to be associated with infection of the deep areas of the lung where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged.

Not exact matches

The combined pressures of climate change and epidemics sweeping through intensive animal agriculture such as H5N2 avian flu and porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) are growing challenges for industrial agriculture, and workers organizing to demand fair pay and conditions combined with increasing consumer pressure for greater transparency and better treatment of land, animals, and workers, are having an effect.

(These proteins serve as the basis for influenza nomenclature; for instance, the H5N1 virus refers to specific classes of hemagglutinin and neuraminidase, which in this example correspond to an avian flu subtype.)

As controversy rages around the scientists who created mutant strains of the H5N1 avian influenza virus, leading flu researchers have called for a 60 - day voluntary pause on such work.

Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy in Minneapolis, points out that the 2004 document was based on input from an international panel of 22 scientists and public - health officials, in response to the threat of the deadly H5N1 avian flu virus.

Chairul Nidom of Airlangga University in Surabaya, Indonesia, and colleagues in Japan, have been tracking H5N1 in pigs since 2005 in Indonesia, the country hardest hit by the avian flu virus.

A triple reassortment strain of an H1N2 virus, with genes from avian, swine and human flu, has been shown to jump easily via air to mammals

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.

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 findings come amid ongoing concerns about flu pandemics launched by avian flu viruses and the global rise of obesity.

One study from Taiwan tracked avian flu outbreaks downwind of Asian dust storms and found that the flu virus might be transported long - distance by air spiked with the dust.

So far, the killer virus looks like a run - of - the - mill swine flu, not an avian virus as some virologists had suspected — leaving scientists to wonder why the strain was so deadly.

All subtypes (but not all strains of all subtypes) of Influenza A virus are adapted to birds, which is why for many purposes avian flu virus is the Influenza A virus (note that the «A» does not stand for «avian»).

The cytokine response to the avian flu virus, H5N1, is particularly vociferous, and some thought that this «cytokine storm» might be the main cause of death.

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.

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.

Similar to the results obtained with cultured human cells, the transgenic mice were resistant to avian influenza viruses but susceptible to flu viruses of human origin.

More importantly, Gack found that avian, swine, and human flu viruses block TRIM25 to evade immune defense by RIG - I, unraveling a molecular target for the design of antiviral drugs and vaccines.

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).

In a recent development, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was forced to admit that a patented liquid silver solution called Axen30TM when used as a surface disinfectant had the ability to kill multiple strains of MRSA plus additional deadly pathogens such as Avian Influenza A (Bird Flu), Human Corona virus (SARS), Feline Calicivirus (Norovirus), Rotavirus, Campylobacter jjejuni and Acinetobacter baumannii.

Avian flu infections may increase in consequence to increase of virus circulation.

In Science Times this week, he provides a valuable update on the H5N1 virus behind recent outbreaks of avian flu.

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.