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and died when they were exposed to H5n1 bird flu, they didnt transmit the virus to other chickens they came into contact with.
H5n1 bird flu has been circulating in Asia and the Middle east, with occasional outbreaks in Europe, since 2003 and has killed
said this week it was raising its bird flu alert level after detecting H5n1 bird flu at poultry farms.
they infected 10 of them and 10 normal chickens with H5n1 bird flu. Like the normal chickens, the transgenic birds became sick with the virus,
H7n9 appears to be more infectious than the H5n1 bird flu virus Webby said. When researchers infect ferrets with H5n1 they usually do not see transmission through airborne
or direct contact Webby said. One bit of good news is that H7n9 does not appear to spread between pigs.
While this is still less deadly than the previous avian flu outbreak in China six years ago he H5n1 bird flu virus eventually killed more than 300 people after spreading from China to other countries in 2006 he death rate for this new Chinese bird flu
Previously reports of infection with the H5n1 strain of bird flu were linked to poultry markets Webby said.
The avian H5n1 flu virus leads to serious disease in poultry and causes huge economic losses,
The H5n1 strain of influenza which raged through Southeast asia a decade ago and has killed hundreds of people to date remains a problem in some developing countries,
The birds carry a genetic tweak that diverts an enzyme crucial for transmitting the H5n1 strain.
H5n1 is endemic in at least five countries, and is particularly threatening in Egypt and Indonesia, says Capua.
H5n1 outbreaks are controlled by swiftly culling the animals. In poor countries, however, there are lots of small farms,
Instead, developing countries try to control H5n1 by vaccinating birds. This doesn't prevent them from silently acquiring mild forms of the disease and
The researchers infected decoy-carrying birds with H5n1 and housed them with uninfected birds, some with the transgene and some without.
The technique may become most useful not for preventing the spread of H5n1 but for using similar cassettes to create resistance to other common poultry diseases.
Caution urged for mutant flu workwhy would scientists deliberately create a form of the H5n1 avian influenza virus that is probably highly transmissible in humans?
if the virus escaped from the lab. For the scientists who have created the mutated strains of the H5n1 virus,
found that just five mutations allowed avian H5n1 to spread easily among ferrets, which are a good proxy for how flu behaves in other mammals,
39 flu researchers declared a 60-day pause in the creation of lab mutant strains of the H5n1 avian flu virus. The hiatus,
And they all agree that the new research has done the world a service by showing that H5n1 seems capable of evolving the ability to spread rapidly among humans,
and international organizations to ramp up their funding of efforts to control outbreaks of the H5n1 virus in poultry,
Yet surveillance of H5n1 in poultry worldwide is patchy, particularly in poorer countries, where the virus is prevalent.
Last year, global surveillance resulted in partial sequences from just 160 H5n1 isolates being submitted to Genbank,
Genbankmoreover, if H5n1 surveillance in poultry is poor, the situation is far worse in pigs,
H5n1 infections in pigs are uncommon and cause only mild illness, creating little economic incentive to monitor them4.
Genbank contains partial sequences from just 24 pig H5n1 isolates. Yet pigs are a likely source of a human pandemic H5n1 virus
because they are susceptible to both human and avian viruses, creating opportunities for genetic reassortment in co-infected animals.
But even if a candidate pandemic H5n1 virus was detected in poultry, culling flocks to eliminate it would be no mean feat.
H5n1 has become endemic in many countries, including China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh, India and Egypt,
The relative ease of making H5n1 transmissible between mammals in the lab should now prompt the world to address these glaring inadequacies in surveillance
H5n1 is far from being the only flu virus that poses a pandemic threat. But he believes that more extensive genetic surveillance could eventually pay off."
and public safety, relating to unpublished work on mutant, transmissible strains of the H5n1 Influenza a virus. See page 289 for more on the flu-virus debate. go. nature. com/pf7bwv20-24 february Marine scientists'responses to the Gulf of mexico oil spill in 2010 are discussed among topics at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in Salt lake city, Utah
The analysis covered all subtypes of flu virus, not just H5n1. That s important, says Malik Peiris, a flu virologist and surveillance expert at the University of Hong kong,
because"H5n1 is not the sole pandemic candidate, and low pathogenic viruses are just as likely, if not more likely,
The 2007 peak in avian viral sampling was largely the result of surveys of more than 100,000 wild birds to monitor for the arrival of H5n1 in the Americas1,
2. Also contributing was the sequencing of the H5n1 viral flare that moved from Asia into Europe and Africa in 2005 and 20063,4.
3 9 august 2012h5n1 moratorium Researchers should continue a self-imposed moratorium on lab studies that give new properties to the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5n1, according to Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute
Rinderpest is as deadly to cattle as highly pathogenic H5n1 avian flu is to chickens. In past decades, outbreaks ripped through herds and wiped out up to 90%of animals, often leaving famine,
well-established avian flu virus H5n1 may help to target H7n9 surveillance and control efforts. The map shows human cases of H7n9 (blue circles) superimposed on a risk map developed for H5n1,
with light yellow representing lowest risk, and darker areas higher risk (risk-map source: ref. 1).(This is a large map
the H5n1 virus that has caused 622 confirmed cases and 371 deaths since 2003, may help inform analyses.
For H5n1, researchers integrate large data sets that combine information on many potentially important factors, such as poultry trade routes,
they add the distribution of H5n1 cases in poultry, and as well as positive H5n1 results from active surveillance in markets.
Marius Gilbert, a co-author of one such study published in PLOS Pathogens in 20111, and an expert in the epidemiology and ecology of avian flu viruses at the Free University of Brussels, says that
H5n1 risk maps are probably a good starting point for identifying areas most at risk. Indeed, when human cases of H7n9 are overlaid on a risk map that Marius
they seem to fall within the highest risk areas for H5n1. The map suggests that high-risk areas for H7n9 might include Shandong province
T. P. V. B. and M. G.,Universitã Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels.)The H7n9 virus has mutations that mean that it spreads from birds to humans more easily than does H5n1.
in just two weeks the number of H7n9 cases has exceeded the 45 H5n1 cases China has reported over the decade
Genetic analyses of the new virus show that it has several mutations making it more adapted to humans than is H5n1.
This looks very different from H5n1, says Farrar. We never saw this number of presumed avian/animal to human transmissions in such a short space of time.
In the case of H5n1, outbreaks in poultry precede human outbreaks and tell public health workers where the public health threat lies.
though it will be at least as challenging as H5n1
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Unlike its cousin H5n1 which has killed millions of birds and several hundred people in Asia and elsewhere since 2003 H7n9 does not cause serious bird disease,
such as the H5n1 virus that has been ravaging poultry flocks in Asia since late 2002. Flu viruses that don t sicken birds can,
A highly pathogenic virus such as H5n1 is easy to spot because it wipes out flocks,
and H5n1. gm. asm. org21-23 may The Pasteur institute in Paris hosts an international symposium on HIV research,
The country was hit hard by another avian-flu virus, H5n1, a decade ago, and suffered enormous economic losses and more than 60 Â human deaths.
H5n1, by contrast, is lethal to birds, making outbreaks easier to spot and control. And despite extensive sampling of farms, wholesale markets and other parts of the poultry supply chain, the only strong link to H7n9 found so far is live-bird markets.
One example of this is the highly pathogenic H5n1 virus in Southeast asia known to cause#oebird flu#.
#Due to the outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus subtype H5n1 in Southeast asia a programme to monitor influenza viruses in wild birds in Norway was initiated in 2005.
but not the highly pathogenic H5n1 virus. The complete genetic material from a total of five influenza viruses from mallard and common gull were sequenced and characterized.
Focusing on the avian flu virus strain H5n1 research published today in the journal PLOS ONE identifies key stages in the poultry trade chain which lead to its transmission to other birds animals and humans.
The H5n1 avian flu strain has been responsible for the deaths of millions of poultry as well as 375 confirmed human deaths.
We identified poultry transportation slaughter preparation and consumption as critical control points in response to HPAI H5n1 outbreaks in Vietnam.
The research was conducted as part of a three year interdisciplinary study of the impact of H5n1 on mechanisms of transmission local livelihoods and food security.
highly pathogenic avian influenza H5n1. Among other commonalities both viruses have a clinical picture that includes bilateral pneumonia acute respiratory distress syndrome
The recent human cases of H7n9 avian influenza demonstrate the importance of adopting the lessons learned from H5n1 avian influenza.
The studies on H5n1 found that despite shifts in government policies towards support for large scale industrial poultry production small scale production still needs support as it is a major source of income for women and the rural poor.
The team conducting studies on the effectiveness of control measures against H5n1 found that there were significant deficiencies in biosecurity practices in most of the farms studied especially but not only small scale farms.
The various studies also found that with H5n1 control wide area culling in which all poultry in a large zone around known infected flocks are culled had very severe effects on livelihoods because of the level of disruption
The studies conducted by APEIR did find some additional influenza virus subtypes other than H5n1 viruses
the seasonal H3n2 human flu and the H5n1 strain of bird flu that has crossed occasionally over into humans.
Currently H5n1 has a 60 percent mortality rate in humans but is known not to spread between humans frequently.
Unlike H5n1 the other virulent form of avian influenza to emerge in recent years H7n9 produces little signs of illness in birds
Consider the epidemiology that was going on in China at the time and compare it with H5n1
The H5n1 is one of these highly virulent forms. If it has that extra amino acid,
So with the H5n1 you see a lot of disease in your birds and you know the virus is there.
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