Bird-Flu Pandemic Threat Seen Waning
While it’s possible for bird flu to cause a pandemic (a dangerous, worldwide outbreak of illness), it’s unlikely. It can only happen if the virus mutates, or changes so that it’s easier for people to give it to each other and not just get it from birds. That has not happened...
<EN> [New] INFURU "could widen further after the fall" "World Health Organization (who) is 12, the alarm stage of avian flu ‘epidemic (pandemic)’ means a six-step raise. World about 70 countries based on 35,000 person-positive avian flu have been calculated and react. on the whole...
Bird flu continues to appear to pose a "low risk to the general public" for now, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventionsays. But the agency's scientists ran into roadblocks investigating a human case of this "pandemic potential" virus this year, they said in a new report. Epidemiol...
The most probable and the greatest likely imminent threat to the United States and the rest of the world is a severe bird flu pandemic. There are an estimated four influenza (flu) pandemics each century. The last severe one was in 1918. This killed about five percent of the world's popul...
COVID, Bird Flu, Monkeypox – A Virologist Explains the Surge of Virus Outbreaks Around the World Virus outbreaks are likely increasing due to human actions, urbanization, and climate change. Improved virus detection methods from the COVID pandemic, like wastewater monitoring, ca...
The public’s excessive fear of catching bird flu from poultry is grounded in a fundamental conceptual error. Many people have come to believe that birds carry the H5N1 pandemic. And huge numbers of people have come to feel, without quite thinking it through, that H5N1-positive birds bring ...
题干A bird flu pandemic ( 流行病 ) could kill between five million and 150 million people worldwide . The large ___ between those two figures reflects the tremendous difference that preparation could play in facing a global pandemic. 意为禽流感大流行可能导致全球500万至1.5亿人死亡。这两个数字...
news Bird flu sparks worldwide bid to prevent human pandemic Alison Abbott and David Cyranoski The outbreak of highly contagious bird flu that is sweeping Asia, and which has killed at least five people, has put the World Health Organization (WHO) on full alert. WHO scientists are now ...
The mink outbreak “confirmed a fear that I had” that bird flu could spread efficiently in mammals,Thijs Kuiken, a veterinary pathologist at Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands, tells theTimes. “We’ve never seen mammal-to-mammal transmission, ever. It has never ...