Sentences with phrase «with avian influenza»

Only in rare cases have dogs been known to become infected with avian influenza, and most of the studies of dogs which tested positive for avian influenza were performed in dogs which were infected with the virus for laboratory studies.

A: The strange but true answer is yes, cats can become infected with avian influenza, although their risk of contracting the disease in the United States is currently considered very low, according to the American Veterinary Medical Association.

Two groups of scientists who carried out highly controversial studies with the avian influenza virus H5N1 have reluctantly agreed to strike certain details from manuscripts describing their work after having been asked to do so by a U.S. biosecurity council.

► An unpublished report from Italian police names Ilaria Capua, a prominent scientist who is now a member of the Italian Parliament, as part of «a criminal organization» that colluded to profit from Italy's battle with avian influenza, Laura Margottini reported in this week's Science.

In March 2013 the first human infections with the avian influenza A (H7N9) virus were reported in China, and since that time hundreds of cases have been documented.

Not exact matches

It is feared that if the avian influenza virus combines with a human influenza virus (in a bird or a human), the new subtype created could be both highly contagious and highly lethal in humans.

Ebright: Future work with lab - generated transmissible avian influenza viruses should be performed only at the highest biosafety level, only at the highest biosecurity standard, and only after approval by, and under the oversight of, a national or international review process that identifies risks and benefits, weighs risks and benefits, mitigates risks, and manages risks.

«These characteristics fit with increased virulence of these emerging avian H7 viruses compared to that of human influenza viruses,» says Dr. Kuiken.

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).

I understand China's desire to curtail the spread of Influenza A, both to buy more time to prepare a vaccine and to limit the opportunities that the virus will mix with the far more lethal avian influenza endemic to thInfluenza A, both to buy more time to prepare a vaccine and to limit the opportunities that the virus will mix with the far more lethal avian influenza endemic to thinfluenza endemic to the region.

Now researchers report new evidence for such a link: Mice infected with the H5N1 avian influenza virus lose the same dopamine - releasing neurons that are destroyed by Parkinson's disease.

In 2011, it became embroiled in heated debates about «gain - of - function» experiments with the deadly avian influenza virus H5N1 that made it more transmissible in mammals.

Last week, two more problems came to light: a recent CDC shipment of flu samples contaminated with the deadly H5N1 avian influenza and the discovery of smallpox vials from 1954 in a government lab at the National Institutes of Health.

«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.

Tests there revealed it was contaminated with the highly virulent H5N1 avian influenza strain, which can infect and sicken humans.

In additional experiments, the scientists found that participants who had significant antibody responses did not necessarily also have significant immune system T cell responses to avian viruses, indicating that these two arms of immunity can be independently boosted after vaccination or infection; that individuals who reported receiving seasonal influenza vaccination had significantly higher antibodies to the avian H4, H5, H6, and H8 subtypes; and that participants with exposure to poultry had significantly higher antibody responses to the H7 subtype, but to none of the other subtypes tested.

Ilaria Capua, a former avian influenza researcher and now a member of the Chamber of Deputies, agrees that Italy should respect its obligations within the European Union and pass a law that is compliant with the directive.

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.

Last week, a judge in Verona dismissed a host of criminal charges against veterinary researcher and former politician Ilaria Capua, including allegations that she deliberately set off avian influenza outbreaks that also caused a human epidemic — a crime that would have been punishable with life imprisonment if proven.

When the researchers exposed chickens to lethal doses of the avian influenza virus and the Newcastle virus, birds inoculated with the recombinant vaccine produced antibodies against both viruses, offering protection against both diseases.

The flu incident occurred in March when a sample of a relatively benign avian flu was accidentally contaminated with a deadly influenza strain at a CDC lab before being sent out.

But Tompkins warns that repeated vaccinations with distinct hemagglutinins would probably be needed to protect birds from the many strains of avian influenza virus.

Insights into Avian Influenza Virus Pathogenicity: the Hemagglutinin Precursor HA0 of Subtype H16 Has an Alpha - Helix Structure in Its Cleavage Site with Inefficient HA1 / HA2 Cleavage

Similar to the results obtained with cultured human cells, the transgenic mice were resistant to avian influenza viruses but susceptible to flu viruses of human origin.

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.

She began research on avian influenza with Dr. Abba Gumel, a mathematics professor at the University of Manitoba.

Feline infections with any type of avian influenza have been documented, but this is the first report of H7N2 being identified in cats.

In addition the Smith - Kilborne summer program involvement, Brewer also will be participating this summer in an internship working with the state veterinarian's office to monitor poultry flocks for avian influenza.

As dogs have been infected with both mammalian and avian influenza viruses, they have the potential to act like pigs, as «mixing vessel» hosts for the generation of new strains.

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In June 2015, during a regional outbreak of highly infectious avian influenza, she helped prepare the state to deal with the outbreak so it did not wreak the havoc it did by killing tens of millions of birds in poultry producing states of Iowa and Minnesota.

Avian influenza infections in cats appear to be associated with outbreaks in domestic or wild birds by way of eating raw meat infected with the virus.

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.