The H7N9 strain is a form of avian flu not previously found in humans.
Avian flu viruses can sometimes spread to domestic poultry and cause large-scale outbreaks of serious disease.
The H7N9 is a form of avian flu not previously been found in humans.
Experience with SARS and avian flu helped teach priorities and proper procedures, they said.
If swine flu can mutate to spread between humans, what does this mean for avian flu?
N1 avian flu, on a farm in Suffolk, turkeys are still in the news.
Avian flu strains from Indonesia and Vietnam has been studied in the context of mutations so far.
Others joked that the bird had been felled by avian flu or by sheer exhaustion from the crowds.
The FAO and OIE have for some time had a largely unfunded global strategy for fighting avian flu.
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Jude Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, used reverse genetics to produce a vaccine against the H5N1 avian flu virus.
This spring a new strain of avian flu led to bird culls in some parts of the country.
Then talk of a new and unusual avian flu outbreak began to surface.
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Having cloaked SARS and apparently AIDS, Beijing now says it will share data on avian flu--the world hopes so.
Globally Roche is huge in cancer therapies, but it leads in many tiny markets, too, like avian flu cures.
Now the same scientists in the Netherlands (including Osterhaus) are now creating the avian flu killer virus in the laboratories.
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Fortunately, such a doomsday scenario is unlikely: none of the other recent outbreaks of avian flu resulted in human epidemics.
We saw it with the avian flu, we saw it with the H1N1 flu in 2009 and we're seeing it now.
The H7N9 virus, a form of avian flu not before seen in humans, was discovered in pigeons being sold in the market.
When the avian flu first surfaced in 1997, the big unknown was whether the virus could be transmitted from human to human.
The stocks run the gamut from growth to value, technology to turnarounds, and they even include a play on the avian flu.
India banned shipments of US farm products, including poultry meat and chicken eggs, in 2007 to prevent the spread of avian flu.
There have been 11 laboratory-confirmed cases of the H7N9 virus, a form of avian flu which had not been seen before in humans.
Yet the homes of Mr. Chen's family members have been pelted with beer bottles, bricks and dead chickens (amid the outbreak of avian flu).
For an advancing country, China is strangely vulnerable to infectious diseases, including the H5N1 variant of avian flu that has killed some 300 people.
The new H7N9 strain of avian flu claimed two more deaths on Tuesday, increasing the death toll to seven, the World Health Organization said.
The reported death toll gives the Middle East-based disease a case fatality rate of about 60%, similar to that of the feared H5N1 avian flu.
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Avian flu in Asia, price pressures in the U.S. and a struggling economy in Europe doesn't bode real well for even the yummiest fast food.
Most of that money will go to the Health and Human Services Department to prepare for an influenza pandemic, such as an avian flu outbreak.
Bernard Matthews, the poultry firm that owns the Suffolk farm, also has operations in Hungary, which suffered an outbreak of avian flu in late January.
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