Avian influenza A virus (an orthomyxovirus) is a zoonotic pathogen with a natural reservoir entirely in birds. The influenza virus genome is an 8-segment single-stranded RNA with high potential for in situ recombination. Two segments code for the hemagglutinin (H) and neuraminidase (N) ...
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Can Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Kill Humans? canva.com There are lots of reasons to be concerned about an outbreak of HPAI if it gets into poultry and humans eat that poultry before the virus is discovered. HPAI viruses in poultry have been associated with illness and death in humans in...
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with existing samples from online databases to provide the first comprehensive assessment of AIV prevalence in US passerines. The main finding reported in this article is that the prevalence of influenza in passerines is greater than the prevalence in eight other avian orders. The implication of ...
MANILA, April 1 (Xinhua) -- The Philippines' health department on Friday called on public to avoid direct contact with wild birds, sick birds, or people who come into contact with infected birds following avian influenza outbreaks in some parts of the country. ...
Faced with growing evidence that avian influenza is spreading in birds, the World Health Organization on Wednesday signed an agreement with the Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche Holding to build up its stockpile of medicines in case of a pandemic in humans. Under the agreement, Roche will reserve...
the only possible reservoir for H10 influenza viruses; avian H10N8 infected dogs in China and mink in Scandinavia, and H10N7 caused widespread mortality of seals in the Baltic Sea in 2014. The first three human cases of avian influenza A H10N8 were reported in 2013-2014 in China, one of...
Given a paucity of data on the occurrence of avian influenza viruses (AIVs) in wild passerines and other small terrestrial species in Southeast Asia and the importance of highly pathogenic Asian-strain H5N1 outbreaks in humans and domestic poultry in these areas, we focused on surveillance for in...
Mapping Avian Influenza Transmission Risk at the Interface of Domestic Poultry and Wild Birds Emergence of avian influenza viruses with high lethality to humans, such as the currently circulating highly pathogenic A(H5N1) (emerged in 1996) and A(H7N... DJ Prosser,LL Hungerford,ER Michael,... ...