Word: h5n1
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...samples are from a strain of flu virus known as H1N1, a subtype of the influenza A virus: the regular run-of-the-mill seasonal flu, not the dreaded H5N1 avian flu that's prompted countries around the world to stockpile tens of millions of doses of Tamiflu. So how worried should people be about the prospect of drug-resistant strains of influenza A? Only modestly, says World Health Organization spokeswoman Sari Setiogi in Geneva. "Influenza A has been circulating for many years. It's not likely to cause a pandemic," she says. The patients who gave samples...
...week. But the main reason wasn't drug-resistance; it was simply a saturated market. As countries meet their targets for an anti-flu-pandemic Tamiflu stockpile, global demand for the drug is tapering off. For now, at least, those national stockpiles still offer an advantage: To date, the H5N1 bird flu shows only limited resistance to the drug...
...virulent H5N1 strain of avian influenza has been confirmed as the source of a bird flu outbreak on an English farm...
...While H5N1 is difficult for humans to catch, experts fear it could mutate into a form that spreads easily among people, sparking a deadly flu pandemic. Microbiologist Hugh Pennington of the University of Aberdeen said the latest outbreak is part of a "steady creep westward" by the strain from its original hothouse of Southeast Asia...
...This is the second outbreak of H5N1 in poultry in England. The first, in February, led to the culling of nearly 160,000 factory-farmed birds. Farmers have raised concerns about the impact on the lucrative Christmas turkey trade, during which time poultry breeders would expect to sell more than 20 million birds, according to a report in The Guardian newspaper. British farms are already struggling to recover from a year of animal pestilence, as livestock have been besieged by foot-and-mouth and bluetongue disease, two other gruesome and costly viruses. The downturn following the last bird flu outbreak...