Sentences with phrase «over avian flu»

For some, having to desist such practices because of concerns over avian flu could cause life to lose all meaning.

A few months later, fears over avian flu upended the recovery.

Not exact matches

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) has supervised the killing of over 40000 birds as part of measures to contain the spread of the Avian Influenza (Bird Flu).

Bird flu takes flight Avian flu in Indonesia first caught the world's attention in 2004, when it wiped out 16.2 million birds in a bit over a year.

One study found that the 1918 flu probably wasn't a direct mix of bird and human flu strains, as was long suspected, but may instead have been avian flu that managed to adapt to humans over time.

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.

This strain appears to be an avian influenza cross over from birds, whereas the H3N8 strain was a cross over from the horse flu.

Breakdowns in water supplies, large numbers of climate refugees, and violent conflicts over diminishing resources could easily create a repeat of the 1918 flu epidemic or something similar — an outbreak of drug - resistant TB or a drug - resistant human strain of avian bird 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?

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.