No human infections have been linked to raw milk consumption, although a toddler in California recently tested positive for influenza after drinking a large amount of raw milk. The CDC wasn’t able to confirm whether the infection was bird flu, however, so this child is listed as a suspected...
Bird flu growing more dangerous to mammals
BEIJING, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- The H7N9 bird flu has mutated to a new strain in south China, which is proven more dangerous to poultry but poses no new threat to humans, the country's disease control and prevention authorities said Sunday on its website. The mutation was found in January...
While scientists are keeping a close eye on animal influenza variations for any mutations that may make thevirusesmore dangerous to humans, there is noscientific consensusto support the claim that H5N1 bird flu could become a pandemic. According to two California-based experts, bird flu is unlikel...
Has bird flu been seen in the United States? Various strains of bird flu pop up in U.S. poultry from time to time. When they do, farmers cull (remove and kill) all affected poultry flocks. For example, in 2004, a highly dangerous bird flu strain appeared in a Texas chicken flock. ...
Bird flu could make people sick. 禽流感会使人生病.D. We have good medicine for bird flu now.我们现在有治疗禽流感的良药;文中没有提及,可知说法错误.根据开头Everyone is talking about bird flu. Yes, it is a very dangerous disease that could make people very sick.,可知前三项说法都正确,故选...
will acquire mutations that adapt the virus for human disease and transmission,”James Lawler, director of the University of Nebraska’s Global Center for Health Security, tells theNew York Times. “[The news] should remind us that H5N1 influenza has...
Everyone is talking about bird flu. Yes, it is a very dangerous illness that could make people very sick. It will be some months still before we have good medicine 1 bird flu. But that doesn’t mean you can’t do anything to prevent(预防)it now. So far, all the people who have ...
A dangerous and contagious bird flu continues to spread through poultry farms, wild birds, and now mammal populations.There’s still no sign the virus is capable of spreading between humans, but experts are watching the outbreak closely. “The recent spillover to mammals needs to be monitored ...
When the scientists were ready to publish their results, critics said the research could be used as a recipe for bioterrorism - assuming a dangerous strain of the virus wasn't stolen directly from a laboratory. A U.S. government advisory panel recommended in November that Nature as well as ...