Sentences with phrase «pathogenic avian»

Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1, which causes severe respiratory disease in humans, has been diagnosed in dogs and cats.

2006 - 2007 Veterinary Diagnostician / International Consultant, Avian Influenza Response Unit, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy Part of response unit traveling to countries with Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) outbreaks to provide technical advice and assistance in enhancing laboratory capacity.

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).

According to the American Veterinary Medical Association, «Currently, there is no USDA - licensed vaccine against H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza infection available for use in companion animals in the United States.»

The Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus has dramatically spread throughout Southeast Asia since its first detection in 1997 [1].

The Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 virus has dramatically spread throughout Southeast Asia since its first detection in 1997.

Potential for Low - Pathogenic Avian H7 Influenza A Viruses To Replicate and Cause Disease in a Mammalian Model.

Highly pathogenic avian influenza A / H5N1 virus can cause morbidity and mortality in humans but thus far has not acquired the ability to be transmitted by aerosol or respiratory droplet («airborne transmission») between humans.

By comparing gene expression in the lungs of ducks infected with either highly or weakly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 viruses, the team identified genes whose expression patterns were altered in response to avian influenza viruses.

«To provide time for these discussions, we have agreed on a voluntary pause of 60 days on any research involving highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 viruses leading to the generation of viruses that are more transmissible in mammals.»

«As the risks of such research and its publication are debated by the community, I argue that we should pursue transmission studies of highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses with urgency,» he writes in Nature.

The United States's move came amid long - running concerns about GOF studies involving highly pathogenic avian flu strains such as H5N1.

Risk assessment: Outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N8) in Europe, updated rapid risk assessment

«Circulation of highly pathogenic avian flu in North American birds.»

Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5 viruses of Eurasian origin continue to circulate and evolve in North American wild birds.

One particular strain of H5N1, called highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), is responsible for the «bird flu» scares.

It is a mixed - origin virus containing genes from the Eurasian HPAI H5N8 and genes from North American low pathogenic avian influenza from wild birds.

Using virus histochemical analysis, the investigators looked at the pattern of attachment of two genetically engineered emerging H7 viruses (containing the hemagglutinin (HA) of either influenza virus A / Shanghai / 1 / 13 or A / Anhui / 1 / 13) to fixed human respiratory tract tissues and compared the findings to attachment patterns seen with human influenza viruses with high transmissibility but low virulence (seasonal H3N2 and pandemic H1N1) and highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses with low transmissibility and high virulence (H5N1 and H7N7).

The current H5N1 strain is a fast - mutating, highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAI) found in multiple bird species.

Pandemic flu continues to threaten public health, especially in the wake of the recent emergence of an H7N9 low pathogenic avian influenza strain in humans.

Not exact matches

«Bird flu» - H5N1 highly pathogenic Asian avian influenza - is a severe disease of birds.

Gordon Brown's reassurance came after three mute swans in Devon were found dead from the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of avian flu.

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.

One of the greatest influenza pandemic threats at this time is posed by the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza viruses.

While the highly - pathogenic H5N1 strain of avian influenza has yet to be discovered in the US, it is expected to be found here in the future.