"The outbreak of avian influenza is controlled, " Mexico's food safety agency said in a statement.
H5N1 remains an avian influenza and has not taken root in another species, such as pigs.
Avian influenza "never became a man-to-man disease, " said Dr. Lo Wing-Luk, an infectious disease expert.
No other cases of the H5N1 avian influenza have been reported from the same area, Xinhua reported.
Recurrent outbreaks of avian Influenza and the outbreak of SARS in 2003 rang alarm bells as potential pandemics.
Strictly speaking, avian influenza and SARS did not become pandemics because they were too good at killing their hosts.
In 1997, authorities in Hong Kong killed about 1.5 million chickens after H5N1 avian influenza passed from birds to humans there.
Two tests on the woman were positive for H5N1 avian influenza, but the government did not say how she might have contracted the virus.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted BioCryst "fast track" status for its Peramivir trials because it may work in treating avian influenza.
According to Dr. Ron Fouchier, a Dutch virologist, this mutation allows the virus to reproduce at much lower temperatures than a standard avian influenza virus.
Mayo Clinic vaccine researcher Gregory Poland counts more than a dozen new diseases that have emerged in the last few decades: HIV, Lyme disease, West Nile virus, avian influenza.
Ag customers, who already receive weather reports, commodity quotes and breaking news, are paying upwards of 50% more for more-detailed analysis of such issues as Asian soybean rust and avian influenza.
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The new virus has genes from North American swine influenza, avian influenza, human influenza and a form of swine influenza normally found in Asia and Europe, said Nancy Cox, chief of the CDC's Influenza Division.
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The reason for the enthusiasm: BioCryst's influenza neuraminidase inhibitor drug candidate, peramivir, received prominent and positive mention in a New York Times article about how some discarded drug candidates may have new possibilities in treating the H5N1 avian influenza that has broken out in Southeast Asia, which many public health officials fear could develop into a global pandemic.
He cited matters related to regional financial security and public health security such as the avian flu and influenza pandemics as examples of areas where more dynamism was needed.
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.
Flavonoids and flu: Two plant-based flavonoids disease-fighting compounds found in many foods significantly impaired the infectious activity of H5N1 avian-flu virus in laboratory experiments and may form the basis of future influenza treatments, a report in Antiviral Research says.
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