Sentences with phrase «with infected poultry»

When traveling in areas where bird flu is common, travelers can protect themselves by avoiding contact with domestic and wild birds because extensive studies of human cases indicate that direct contact with infected poultry was the cause of the infection.

The majority of documented cases resulted from direct contact with infected poultry.

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Contact with live poultry infected with H7N9 flu appears to be the main means of transmission of this disease to humans, which has affected over 200 people since last spring, killing over 50.

In the study, Suarez and his collaborators first infected seven species of poultry with a human isolate of the Chinese H7N9 virus.

They're in gyms, at the beach, and increasingly, on the farm.One strain of methicillin - resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) known as CC398 has been rapidly spreading through poultry and pig farms, infecting people who work with the animals around the world (up to 26.5 percent of farm workers sampled in the Neatherlands), and popping up in nearly half of all meat sampled in the U.S.

So far only about 100 people have been infected, all after direct contact with domestic poultry in Southeast Asia.

The majority of recently reported human cases are associated with exposure to infected live poultry or contaminated environments, including markets where live poultry are sold.

Ten Danes living in cities were colonized or infected with a novel strain of poultry - associated MRSA, a type of livestock - associated MRSA never identified before.

WHO hopes to use Nigeria's next National Immunization Day against polio, on Saturday, to inform people of the risk of handling and slaughtering poultry infected with H5N1.

Prof Jiming Liu who led the study explained, «By basing our model on wild bird migration and distribution of potentially infected poultry we are able to produce a time line of the estimated risk of human infection with H7N9.