Sentences with phrase «on avian flu»

... Thus, acknowledging that the aims of the voluntary moratorium have been met in some countries and are close to being met in others, we declare an end to the voluntary moratorium on avian flu transmission studies.

Nabarro had worked on avian flu and the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

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Sales of the startup's eggless mayo boomed during 2015's avian bird flu epidemic — an incident that revealed much about the fragile nature of Earth's reliance on animals for food.

And the term «the fifth wave» (or «the fifth epidemic,» as it's often called) is the one scientists use to describe the outbreak of avian flu that began in China on October 1, 2016.

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.

Dr. Daines talks about the problems with Medicaid and gives his views on a range of topics including stem cell research, avian flu, prescription drug prices, hospital closures and much more.

The U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) on March 30 recommended the publication of two controversial avian flu papers.

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.

Not to worry though, because what chance is there that our scientific study results could even be related to foreign relations, other than, you know, research on global warming or acid rain or fish populations or avian - flu transmission or mad - cow - disease transmission, or ozone depletion or....

There's no cricket flu on par with avian flu or swine flu or E. coli.»

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...

«Add to the possible anthrax exposure the delayed notice provided to CDC leadership about avian flu shipments and the discovery of smallpox vials in a cardboard box in an FDA storage room on the NIH campus, and these incidents no longer appear isolated; a dangerous pattern is emerging...,» said Representative Fred Upton (R - MI), chair of the full Energy and Commerce Committee.

Instead, it uses information the CDC posts in the Global Initiative on Sharing Avian Influenza Data (GISAID) database, launched in 2006 by a number of science institutes and universities worldwide (including WHO, the CDC and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics) to encourage data - sharing in response to the global spread of the H5N1 avianAvian Influenza Data (GISAID) database, launched in 2006 by a number of science institutes and universities worldwide (including WHO, the CDC and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics) to encourage data - sharing in response to the global spread of the H5N1 avianavian flu.

[During] the avian flu epidemic in Southeast Asia -LSB-, for example,] important papers on the threatening nature of the disease «went unnoticed because they were published in Chinese - language journals,»» Montgomery notes in the book, quoting an article by David Cyranoski in Nature.

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.

Image courtesy of Vmenkov / Wikimedia Commons After public outcry against research into avian flu strains that can be transmitted among mammals, 40 of the top scientists working on the influenza strains signed a voluntary moratorium on research last January.

Phil: So, I mean, I think that is one of the problems touched on at the summit was that we have a lot of warnings about potential pandemics — swine flu back in the»70s in this country, avian flu — and there is the real threat of people becoming lackadaisical and not taking any of this seriously after a while.

The agency also pledged to immediately release newly generated flu sequence information from now on — including data on the dangerous H5N1 avian influenza strain, should it arrive in the United States.

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.

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.

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.

Emory influenza researchers Richard Compans, Anice Lowen and John Steel are co-signers of a statement announcing the end of a self - imposed moratorium on H5N1 avian flu research.

It'd be like an article on an outbreak of avian flu that left out any discussion of birds

While the chemical flu is the most studied effect on humans, there have been many reported avian fatalities.

After a classroom discussion about the flu pandemic of 1918 and the avian flu of 2005, students take on the role of medical and scientific advisers to the government, suggesting how to control the spread of avian flu.

Or, you may focus on a single key trend, event or detail, such as the Y2K scare that gripped the world in late 1999, the Internet stock boom, avian flu, or the future of the electric car.

H3N2, on the other hand, is believed to have mutated from a strain of avian flu in Asia.

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

Look at these blogs, numerous since the Stevenson trial: All this talk of killing, poisoning, calling cats criminals for walking on plants to pooping in gardens, and calling for their deaths... what about birds, pooping on our windshields, on our sidewalks, taking down airplanes, causing the avian flu that killed 50 million people 80 yrs ago, and preparing to do the exact same thing again... still are cat people joking about putting about poison bird seed, mass extermination of birds...

You can visit their website on issues regarding rats, West Nile virus, bed bugs, avian flu and other public health situations in NYC.

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

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

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?

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.

«Economist Gary Becker says, «Hurricane Katrina and now the danger of an avian flu pandemic — one an actual, the other a potential, catastrophe for which the nation failed or is failing to prepare adequately — underscore the need for institutional reforms that will overcome policy myopia based on inability to plan seriously for responding to catastrophes of slight or unknown probability but huge potential harm,» Judge Richard Posner responds.»