Sentences with phrase «over bird flu»
On Monday, McDonald's Corp. also blamed fears over bird flu for a decline in China sales for the month.
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NEW YORK, N.Y. — Yum Brands says a key sales figure for China dropped 19 per cent in May, as the parent company of KFC began to see signs of recovery from the double whammy of a bird flu scare and an earlier controversy over its chicken supply.
What's more if the bird flu has a 50 % mortality rate and spreads all over the world (they said it could)... then more than 3 billion will expire as a result.
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).
«Recent reports of lapses in biosafety practices involving Federal laboratories» — the mistaken shipment of live anthrax samples by a lab at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta; the accidental contamination of benign poultry flu samples with the deadly H5N1 bird flu at the CDC; and the discovery of old vials of smallpox on the NIH campus in Maryland — «have served to remind us of the importance of constant vigilance over our implementation of biosafety standards,» the notice states.
Already embroiled in a battle royal with the world's superpowers over another flu virus — the ultra-lethal bird flu — Supari did not have time to deal with a new enemy.
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.
The H5N1 bird flu virus has been discovered in poultry in two states in India, and in five governorates of Egypt, including the megacity of Cairo, over the past three days.
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 controversy over whether work on airborne bird flu can be published shows that transparency is vital to upholding public trust
Concerns over so - called «gain - of - function» (GOF) studies that make pathogens more potent or likely to spread in people erupted in 2011, when Kawaoka's team and Ron Fouchier's lab at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, announced that they had modified the H5N1 bird flu virus to enable it to spread between ferrets.
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.