The article reports on the issuance of a warning by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations regarding the emergence of bird flu crisis. The agency claims that the crisis will continue to continue for several more years. Moreover, it emphasizes the impact of the crisis on ...
Bird flu (avian flu, avian influenza) infection in humans may result from contact with infected poultry. There is a vaccine to prevent human infection with the H5N1 strain of the avian flu virus. Diabetes and Safe Medications for Colds & Flu If you have diabetes and catch a cold or the ...
Avian flu is not very common in humans and is contracted from exposure to infected wild birds or poultry. People who work at bird rehabilitation centers, bird and other animal sanctuaries, responders tobird fluoutbreaks and poultry farmers are at an increased risk for exposure to avian flu virus...
In fact, a novel swine-origin IFV-A (H1N1 subtype) emerged as the first influenza pandemic of the 21st century (Dawood et al., 2009). In addition, H5N1 viruses (‘bird flu’), which are also currently circulating, are extremely virulent in humans but have not yet acquired the ability ...
In the winter, humans tend to be indoors more and thus have closer contact with each other, which makes it easier for the virus to spread. Health officials may classify flu outbreaks as epidemics (occurring in a set geographical area) or pandemics (a worldwide occurrence). A flu pandemic ...
"Since the flu virus frequently drifts in its genetic composition, you have to reformulate the vaccine, and this is one of the reasons that people have to [get a flu shot] on an annual basis," Dr. William Schaffner, a preventive medicine and infectious disease expert at the Vanderbilt Univ...
- 《Journal of Virology》 被引量: 397发表: 2000年 Interspecies transmission of an H7N3 influenza virus from wild birds to intensively reared domestic poultry in Italy Since the "bird flu" incident in Hong Kong SAR in 1997, several studies have highlighted the substantial role of domestic ...
Drugs used for the induction, maintenance and reversal of anaesthesia carry the risk of adverse reactions. Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) include overdose, adverse and secondary effects, idiosyncratic reactions, drug intolerance and allergic reactions. Reports of severe ADRs in anaesthesia appear to be ...
A cell study published in 2009 showed that various types offlu viruses, including potentially lethal bird flu and swine flu,were unable to infectcultured human cells that had been exposed to echinacea extract. While lab study findings do not always prove true in living humans, these results —...
Bird flu (avian flu, avian influenza) infection in humans may result from contact with infected poultry. There is a vaccine to prevent human infection with the H5N1 strain of the avian flu virus. Cold, Flu, Allergy Treatments Before treating a cold, the flu, or allergies with over-the-coun...