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[Bird Flu Monitor] The challenges of avian influenza virus: mechanism, epidemiology ...: Current news from East Asia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar (Burma), Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong,

[newyork18.com] Appearance of the H1N1 virus: Researchers and specialists in Epidemiology Center United States (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or CDC), WHO and its Global Outbreak Alert and GOARN, composed of institutions that share their staff and technical resources to quickly discover the causes of an epidemic and to cope at international level, went to Mexico to help the country to respond to numerous questions related to H1N1 viruses that includes avian influenza virus and swine influenza in North America, a swine influenza virus in Asia and a human influenza virus, “said Nancy Cox, CDC, April 26.

[Ganfyd - Recent changes [en]] Influenza: Haemagglutinin genetic drift from data submitted up to 26th May with Swine flu outbreak 2009RNA lacks the parity-checking second strand of DNA and has less control of where transcription starts and how it continues, so it mutates more rapidly. This form of mutation tends to produce gradual changes in the virus, which mean that the precise antigens expressed change gradually over time.

[Jonathan A. Eisen's Amazon Blog] Open Access Flu - Updated: Estimation of Transmission Parameters of H5N1 Avian Influenza Virus in Chickens; Molecular Epidemiology of A/H3N2 and A/H1N1 Influenza Virus during a Single Epidemic Season in the United States;

[Bird Flu Monitor] Pandemic Information News: A pneumonia and the avian influenza virus: SCMP.com| Online News|News from Hong Kong,China, Asia and world: According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), avian influenza, or “bird flu” , is a contagious viral disease. It usually infects only birds and pigs.

[13 Above] Wide Angle - Top 10 Animals That Carry Flu: "Ducks are more considered as carriers, however, than as direct threats," said Johnson, who explained that ducks seem less likely to spread influenza to humans, but that they can infect other animals. Researchers in Mexico have not ruled out the possibility that a bird, such as a chicken or duck, was the original source of the latest outbreak, which could have jumped to pigs and then humans.

[Fri3ta's Blog] swine influenza: People who work with poultry and swine, especially people with intense exposures, are at increased risk of zoonotic infection with influenza virus endemic in these animals, and constitute a population of human hosts in which zoonosis and reassortment can co-occur.[40] Transmission of influenza from swine to humans who work with swine was documented in a small surveillance study performed in 2004 at the University of Iowa.[41] This study among others forms the basis of a recommendation that people whose jobs involve handling poultry and swine be the focus of increased public health surveillance.[40] The 2009 swine flu outbreak is an apparent reassortment of several strains of influenza A virus subtype H1N1, including a strain endemic in humans and two strains endemic in pigs, as well as an avian influenza.[42]

[End Times Blog] How One Wicked Nation Can Kill Billions Around the World - - With ...: “The American Lung Association (ALA) describes pneumonia as having over 30 different causes (one being the influenza virus). Neither the CDC nor ALA know the specific causes of the pneumonias that resulted in death.

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