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Swine Influenza outbreak.
Commenting on the current developments regarding
the swine influenza outbreak, Dr. Ghassan Aïdi, President of the International Hotel & Restaurant Association «IH&RA» informs on the importance of the safety and well - being of the hospitality industry and confirms that the IH&RA is working closely together with the Tourism Emergency Response Network «TERN» partners, the United Nation World Tourism Organization «UNWTO», the World Health Organization «WHO» and sharing views on the matter on continuous basis.
When he noticed acute coughing in suckling and nursery pigs due to
swine influenza, he attacked the problem with good planning, sound science and strong monitoring.
The new vaccine adds another valuable
swine influenza management tool to Pfizer Animal Health's FluSure XP ® Defense System.
This information provides only a small look at some of the advantages and results you'll see from a vaccine that offers cross-protection against different
swine influenza strains.
«Pfizer Animal Health is committed to monitoring
swine influenza viruses and bringing to the market vaccines that help protect against SIV strains circulating in pork production systems today,» said Kuhn.
The vaccine helps pork producers protect their herds from the pandemic H1N1 (pH1N1) strain of
Swine Influenza Virus (SIV).
The researchers themselves even recognize the link between vaccines and disease, saying that «Cases of GBS after rabies and
swine influenza vaccines also have been reported.»
2 Corzo C, Gramer M, Lowe J, Webby R.
Swine influenza active surveillance in the United States, in Proceedings.
The dominant share of this segment can be attributed to the increasing porcine population, growing awareness about animal vaccination, and outbreaks of porcine diseases such as PRRS (Porcine Reproductive & Respiratory Syndrome),
swine influenza, and Auzeszkys Disease (AD).
MADISON, N.J. (Jan. 27, 2011)--
Swine influenza virus (SIV) continues to evolve and challenge swine herds.
Kitikoon P, Nilubol D, Vincent A, Yu S, Erickson B, Janke B, Hoover T, Sornsen S, Thacker E. Immune response and effect of maternal antibody interference on vaccination with a bivalent
swine influenza vaccine.
He is working on the prediction and validation of conserved T cell epitopes from prevalent
swine influenza viruses.
IRTA has also developed multiple animal and / or arthropod models to work with zoonotic pathogens such as avian and
swine influenza, RVFV, MERS - coronavirus, West Nile virus and chikungunya virus.
However, the role of local, regional, and global swine - flows in the ecology and evolution of
swine influenza viruses remains unclear.
Pathogenicity and transmissibility of North American triple reassortant
swine influenza A viruses in ferrets.
Globally,
the swine influenza virus population is spatially separated into the North American and Eurasian lineages, although both lineages co-circulate in Asia, which imports swine from North America and Europe.
The US government says it is taking swift measures to contain
the swine influenza outbreak that threatens to turn into a pandemic
The 2009 A / H1N1 was also a derivative of two different strains of
swine influenza — one that had been circulating in Europe and Asia and another that was circulating in the Americas, especially North America.
The never - before - described virus did not involve the novel H1N1 but instead picked up the surface genes from the seasonal human H1N1 virus that has long infected humans and combined them with what's known as the triple - reassortant
swine influenza.
Question: And is this the first known case in the world of the countries that are experiencing outbreak of human
swine influenza where you've seen the flu infect a pig?
Noting the «relative lack of surveillance for
swine influenza viruses,» the authors suggest, «this virus might have been circulating undetected among swine herds somewhere in the world.»
There are a relatively limited number of documented cases of zoonotic [human - communicable]
swine influenza in the literature.
Nelson and her colleagues found that flu in pigs «follows long - distance swine movements from the southern U.S. to the Midwest,» with most of the human - origin H1N1 arriving at Midwest hog farms coming from the Southeast, and most of the swine - origin H1N2 coming from the south - central U.S. And that means the Midwest, as the final destination for many of these pigs, is «likely to provide a reservoir for multiple genetically distinct variants to co-circulate and exchange segments via re-assortment because of the continual importation of
swine influenza viruses from other regions,» the researchers noted.
The lines show the path of
swine influenza H1N2 along common hog routes over time.
The virus did not appear to spread from human to human but once again proved that the triple - reassortant
swine influenzas — a family the novel H1N1 belongs to — are unusually promiscuous and need to be watched carefully.
Not exact matches
Great article and good to see common sense prevails in respect of
swine or any
influenza.
Test results from the New York State Wadsworth Laboratories has confirmed the H1N1
influenza (
Swine flu) virus in a patient in Oneida County.
Lab Confirms County's First H1N1 (
Swine) Case Test results from the New York State Wadsworth Laboratory has confirmed the H1N1
influenza (
Swine flu) virus in a patient in Oneida County.
Ghana will today [Friday] take delivery of the anti-viral agents Tamiflu from the World Health Organization, as part of measures to combat the threat posed by the 2009 H1N1 strain of
influenza, also known as
swine flu.
About four students of the school have died from the
Influenza H1N1 also known as
swine flu in the last two weeks.
The swelling circles represent the amount of human - origin
influenza in
swine population, «with the viral populations increasing first in Oklahoma and then in Minnesota and Iowa,» as pigs move from the south - central to the Midwest.
«Understanding the importance of long - distance pig transportation in the evolution and spatial dissemination of the
influenza virus in
swine may inform future strategies for the surveillance and control of
influenza,» Nelson and her colleagues concluded in their paper.
Also, since the article was written, there has been significant progress on the implementation of a national
influenza surveillance program in
swine.
Aliases:
Swine flu variant (the word variant applies to
influenza A subtypes that usually only infect pigs if they go on to infect humans.)
The show includes reassortment of the H1N1 / 2009
influenza virus in
swine, ocean noise, the physics of old violins, and more.
The first cases were reported in the United States in March 2009 but the new virus spread rapidly to other countries and in June 2009 the WHO declared a pandemic caused by this strain, known as
influenza A (H1N1) pdm09, or «
swine flu».
The new study examined the effects of three types of
influenza A — H1N1, the strain behind 2009's
swine flu outbreak; H7N7, a dangerous strain that only rarely infects people; and H3N2, the strain behind much of the 2017 — 2018 flu season misery (SN: 2/17/18, p. 12).
«We found that the vaccines produced against the
swine flu pandemic in 2009 were very effective in both preventing
influenza infection and reducing the chances of hospital admission due to flu.
«
Influenza viruses are always doing unpredictable and surprising things, although isolation of this virus from turkeys may not be that surprising, because the
swine characteristics of this virus — this may sound funny to say — can have the capacity to infect turkeys,» said CDC's Butler.
Novartis announced in a press statement today that it has made the first batch of vaccine against the A (H1N1)
influenza virus causing the
swine flu pandemic.
Dr. Evans No we are saying that this particular virus based on what we are seeing clinical expression at this point and time, the introduction of the virus into the pig herd, the pigs have responded in the same way that they have responded to every other
swine virus, or circulating
influenza virus.
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.
This person was exhibiting flu - like symptoms following their return, and may have exposed
swine on the farm to an
influenza virus.
As public health officials have stressed since the
swine flu pandemic surfaced last April,
influenza is unpredictable.
Although the world's attention is focused on the novel H1N1 virus causing the
swine flu pandemic, H3N2, a seasonal strain of
influenza, has popped up in many East Asian countries — and some variants in circulation may outfox the seasonal vaccine in use.
One of the most baffling features of the
swine flu outbreak is that, unlike seasonal
influenza, severe disease largely does not occur in the elderly.
All
influenza viruses ultimately come from birds, and the paper begins the somewhat operatic and knotty story of this outbreak's origins with an H1N1 first isolated in
swine in 1930, which itself was a close relative of the virus that caused the 1918 pandemic in humans.
It's been well researched, by studies, by world organizations, by the Centre for Disease Control in Atlanta, other organizations that have all unanimously come to the conclusion that consumption of pork is not a risk factor for transmission of
influenza virus from
swine to human.
Besser said officials were already taking preliminary steps toward manufacturing a vaccine against the
influenza strain responsible for
swine flu.