Of the three possible results – pathogenic, benign, or unknown – pathogenic is the least common, says Resta.
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One hypothesis is that low pathogenic strains had evolved into high pathogenic ones, Eloit said, and it showed the need for countries to monitor all types of bird flu strains, not only the highly pathogenic ones.
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The virus found in Tennessee likely mutated to become highly pathogenic from a less dangerous, low pathogenic form, he said.
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As opposed to highly pathogenic strains which can cause high mortality rates among poultry, low pathogenic ones typically cause few or no clinical signs in birds.
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"The designation of "low pathogenic" or "highly pathogenic" does not refer to how infectious the viruses may be to humans, other mammals, or other species of birds."
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"This virus can mutate very easily, so low-pathogenic issues are just as important - when they are circulating among the wild birds - as the high-pathogenic issues," Shere said.
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The World Organization for Animal Health requires that all confirmed low-pathogenic H5 and H7 bird flu subtypes be reported because of their potential to mutate into highly pathogenic strains.
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"While many Vibrio are not pathogenic, the fact that we recovered them on the skin after swimming demonstrates that pathogenic Vibrio species could potentially persist on the skin after swimming," said Nielsen.
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Listeria monocytogenes is a pathogenic bacteria that can cause listeriosis.
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Bacteria from the soil can be pathogenic — bad for the body.
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A pathogen is defined by its ability to be, well, pathogenic.
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Highly pathogenic among fowl, the risk of human infection is low.
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Highly pathogenic among fowl, it poses little risk to human health.
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Some pathogenic microbes, like viruses, can't be detected within agar petri dishes.
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Surprisingly, the E. coli containing the mcr-1 gene was non-pathogenic.
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This marks the first highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) case since June.
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"I mean, there's lots of pathogenic material on your socks," Adalja says.
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It's when pathogenic microbes team up that they become a greater threat.
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Officials do not believe the birds that fell ill with low pathogenic flu in Giles County, Tennessee, were sickened by the chickens that died from highly pathogenic flu in Lincoln County, Tennessee, according to the Tennessee Department of Agriculture.
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The expert is going to classify those variants as being pathogenic or benign.
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The virus is highly pathogenic in birds but considered unlikely to infect humans.
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Swabs revealed that 21% of the devices had pathogenic bacteria growing on them.
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A study of one-dollar bills found that 94 percent were colonized by bacteria, 7 percent of which were pathogenic to healthy people and 87 percent of which were pathogenic to people who were hospitalized or who had compromised immune systems.
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For safety's sake, the E. coli they use are engineered not to be pathogenic.
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The specificity of Crispr is equally enticing to researchers looking to target pathogenic viruses.
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Further measures would be decided once it was clear how pathogenic the cases were.
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Low-pathogenic bird flu can cause coughing, ruffled feathers and other symptoms in poultry.
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Low-pathogenic bird flu also was recently detected on a turkey farm in Wisconsin.
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"Chances are, things are at least safe in [terms of] pathogenic organisms," Reckhow says.
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They found that it took over the entire lower intestine, crowding out pathogenic bacteria.
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Kimmitt and his team had participants dip gloved hands into a liquid doused with bacteriophage MS2: a type of non-pathogenic virus that behaves the same way a lot of pathogenic viruses (like the flu) do, and is often used in experiments.
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This bacterium is pathogenic -- meaning that it is infectious to humans, causing the illness listeriosis.
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To deliver these genetic alterations, the Duke researchers used a type of non-pathogenic virus.
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The move comes after an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu in the state.
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The virus, and it is both pathogenic and political today, requires everyone to defeat it.
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Jack Shere, chief veterinary officer for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, said in an interview that there was speculation the highly pathogenic virus found in Tennessee shared similar characteristics with a low-pathogenic virus that circulated in Tennessee, Kentucky, Minnesota and Illinois in 2009.
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Venkateswaran told Gizmodo: "We need to develop strategies to measure the pathogenic and problematic fungi."[Microbiome]
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The company says that you can combine eligobiotics with CRISPR-Cas payloads to kill pathogenic bacteria.
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That pathogenic amnesia is bad, but it's not what makes measles a standout spreader of disease.
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It doesn't only grow in quantity—the presence of pathogenic, or disease-causing bacteria increases exponentially.
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The problem is, raw water can contain parasites like Giardia and pathogenic bacteria like E. coli.
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Low-pathogenic flu is less serious and can cause coughing, depression and other symptoms in birds.
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The outbreak among poultry has been the H5N6 type, another highly pathogenic strain of the disease.
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Tennessee also recently detected a less-dangerous case of low-pathogenic flu in another chicken flock.
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The committee cited a potential risk of transferring pathogenic organisms from the woman to the neonate.
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It may nuke the weak ones, but the strongest, smelliest and potentially pathogenic bacteria will survive.
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Desperate to find new medicines against pathogenic microorganisms, scientists are turning to Crispr, the gene-editing tool.
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Days later, the state said it had found the other case nearby and it was low pathogenic.
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Certain salamanders nest in groups to share microbes that protect their eggs against pathogenic fungi, for instance.
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This is the first time that highly pathogenic avian influenza has been confirmed in Aomori prefecture, it said.
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Researchers add a pathogenic (one that could make people sick) microorganism that's a concern for that specific product.
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Days later, the state said it had detected less-dangerous low-pathogenic flu at another chicken farm nearby.
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In both outbreaks, initial tests have ruled out the highly pathogenic H5N1 as the virus strain, said Pinol.
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In other words, the threat of getting sick comes down to whether any of these bacteria are pathogenic.
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The agency said it is treating the Missouri infection as it would any other low pathogenic flu case.
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Most of the bacteria found on skin is harmless or beneficial, preventing pathogenic microbes from inhabiting the area.
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We live in a world full of dangerous health threats, from Ebola to Zika to highly pathogenic influenza.
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"This is very limited information on three mutations that are known to be pathogenic for BRCA," he told Gizmodo.
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And how it persists in the face of the IL-17 triggered assault, which kills pathogenic species, is unknown.
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But the other two, Onthophagus taurus and Onthophagus nuchicornis, reduced pathogenic E. coli numbers by 90% and 50% respectively.
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Though the researchers weren't able to eliminate the pathogenic organisms completely, they intend to keep working towards that goal.
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Nepal had already reported last month an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu among backyard chickens and ducks.
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If it was pasteurized and packaged properly and didn't contain pathogenic bacteria, it's not likely to be a problem.
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And my point would be, well, not really, because most surfaces aren't going to have pathogenic bacteria on them.
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Being microscopic and blind, it's miraculous that a macrophage generally knows to eat pathogenic cells and not good ones.
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Ghana earlier this year reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H9N2 bird flu on a farm in the southwest.
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The researchers wondered how likely it is for the contaminated ice cubes to transfer the pathogenic bacteria to humans.
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Viruses from three recent human H7N9 cases also showed genetic changes that make them more pathogenic -- or harmful -- in birds.
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Most types of E. coli are harmless, but some strains are pathogenic, meaning they can cause diarrhea or other illnesses.
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But they might conceivably be used to make small and rapidly reproducing insect and rodent species more objectionable or pathogenic.
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A strain of low pathogenic H5N2 avian flu was discovered in a flock of 84,000 turkeys in Barron County, Wisconsin.
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On August 10th President Donald Trump sent a pathogenic tweet, announcing a doubling of tariffs on Turkish steel and aluminium.
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That buildup of pathogenic bacteria can cause interdental cavities and gingivitis, a form of gum disease characterized by gum inflammation.
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Bulgaria has reported a handful of outbreaks in the past year, some involving the highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu virus.
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Something yucky is likely to be inside, scientists say: "potentially pathogenic bacteria" that can cause eye, ear and stomach infections.
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All of those, however, were considered to be carrying "low pathogenic" strains, meaning the risk of widespread infection was not high.
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Based on these genetic similarities, the team estimated the ISS strains were 79 percent likely to be disease-causing, or pathogenic.
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No human transmissions have been recorded in South Korea yet in current outbreak of a highly pathogenic strain of bird flu.
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Like mad cow, the disease is spread by prions, the zombie-like pathogenic proteins that aren't alive and can't be killed.
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The virulence of highly pathogenic bird flu viruses has prompted countries to bar poultry imports from infected countries in earlier outbreaks.
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In 2016 Iraq reported its first outbreak in 10 years of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus.
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Now, faced with the prospect of a months-long pathogenic siege, we had a plan to fortify our household's pandemic defenses.
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On Wednesday, authorities said they would ban imports of poultry from countries where there are outbreaks of highly pathogenic bird flu.
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The virulence of highly pathogenic bird flu viruses has prompted countries such as Saudi Arabia to bar poultry imports from Bulgaria.
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Eloit's predecessor Bernard Vallat said last month the emergence of three different highly pathogenic strains in such a short time was unprecedented.
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Prions are almost indestructible pathogenic proteins that trigger cells, particularly in the brain and spinal cord, to fold abnormally and start clumping.
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Until now, the H7N9 virus has shown little or no clinical symptoms in birds, despite being highly pathogenic when it infects human.
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Certainly, there are medieval superstitions and treatments that we would not replicate today, such as purging a patient's body of pathogenic humors.
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The government is scaling back the risk of highly pathogenic bird flu to "negligible", it announced in France's Official Journal on Friday.
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If the heart cells look abnormal, that probably means the variant of uncertain significance is pathogenic, meaning it's capable of causing disease.
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Imports of poultry and poultry products slaughtered or processed in states with high or low pathogenic avian influenza outbreaks are banned. 53.
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In January, an Indiana turkey flock was thought to have become infected with highly pathogenic flu when a less dangerous strain mutated.
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"The significance is that now we know that there's a new way you can get a pathogenic coronavirus through recombination," Garry said.
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"We haven't seen anything that appears to be this pathogenic and transmissible since maybe 1918 or 1957," said the U.S. government official.
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China has not shared samples of this evolving, highly pathogenic strain of H22013N27 influenza with the United States for over a year.
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The initial case was the country's first infection of highly pathogenic bird flu at a commercial poultry operation in more than a year.
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Our research suggests that farming organically helps facilitate populations of dung beetles likely to reduce levels of pathogenic E. coli on vegetable farms.
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Last week, Danish authorities ordered a farm to destroy more than 250,000 eggs imported from Germany that contained the highly pathogenic H5N8 virus.
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Instead, they back away and let the mix of mild venom and dozens of pathogenic bacteria found in their saliva finish the job.
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But the real trouble lies in the pathogenic organisms that a mosquito might carry, such as the Zika virus or the malaria parasite.
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Outbreaks of avian flu, primarily the highly pathogenic H5N8 strain, have been reported in Denmark, Finland, Germany and Sweden over the past week.
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The new strain found in the United States, like these previous viruses, is considered highly pathogenic, meaning it is especially deadly to poultry.
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But there is enough overlap between the ISS germs and their pathogenic Earth cousins to warrant careful attention to the microbiome going forward.
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They involved explosive liquids, high voltages, radioactive phosphorus, at least one form of pathogenic bacteria and a loosely improvised set of safety procedures.
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To the Editor: One thing the article did not mention is the potential reduction in the transfer of pathogenic substances from paper currency.
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Nearly 40 countries have reported new outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza in poultry or wild birds since November, according to the WHO.
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"But they are beginning to see highly pathogenic viruses in the bird markets," flagging the need to shut markets down and cull birds accordingly.
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As a chemical engineer who studies the motion of fluids, Bill Ristenpart deals with a lot of spattered blood and aerosolized pathogenic mouse phlegm.
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A 2010 report by labor inspectors said management used "pathogenic" restructuring methods such as forcing people into new jobs and giving unattainable performance objectives.
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Dr Van Hoek exposed two species of pathogenic bacteria, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus, to eight of the most promising peptides they had identified.
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"Experiments are [also] being performed where researchers take environmental samples, like rocks or pieces of wood, that have [pathogenic] prions on them," said Larsen.
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Since then, there's been no direct evidence of human disease, even in people who ate meat that later tested positive for the pathogenic prions.
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The USDA on March 5 confirmed that one was the United States' first infection of highly pathogenic flu in commercial poultry in a year.
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Samples of the virus taken from two infected humans were injected into birds in a laboratory and became "highly pathogenic" for poultry, it said.
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Beijing has banned poultry imports from more than 60 countries and said any countries with highly pathogenic cases will automatically go onto that list.
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One of these has also become highly pathogenic, meaning it has gained the ability to kill infected birds, posing a threat to agriculture markets.
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Alabama authorities presume the suspected cases are not highly lethal, or pathogenic, bird flu because the animals did not show signs of being sick.
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The heightened alarm status comes as the country grapples with an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N6 bird flu that started a month ago.
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The third is a group that is potentially pathogenic or harmful, like if a particular strain of E. coli is allowed to grow unchecked.
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The outbreak marked the first case of highly pathogenic bird flu in Sabah, a region located on the island of Borneo, the OIE said.
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It was the first outbreak of highly pathogenic bird flu in the country since 2017, OIE said in a report posted on its website.
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The initial case in Tennessee was the nation's first infection of highly pathogenic bird flu at a commercial operation in more than a year.
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On Thursday, Alabama said the USDA confirmed a suspected case of low-pathogenic flu in a guinea fowl at a flea market as H7N9.
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The company has said it tests all the birds it owns for the virus and flocks diagnosed with highly pathogenic flu are not processed.
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From there, the impressive collection was narrowed down to 48 non-pathogenic bacterial candidates that were launched to the ISS on April 19, 2014.
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Such strains are still a concern to agriculture and health officials because they can mutate into more dangerous, highly pathogenic forms of the virus.
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Since taking root in China in 22011, the virus has spread through poultry farms, evolving into a highly pathogenic strain that can infect humans.
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The study revealed that co-injecting the CRISPR–Cas85033 system and sperm carrying the faulty MYBPC3 into healthy donor eggs corrected the pathogenic mutation.
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This highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza virus has caused nearly 1,600 confirmed cases, killing almost 40% of those infected, as of December 73.
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Tyson's honorable mention, "The Adromeda Strain" from 1971, features a murderous, pathogenic life form so foreign that it isn't even made from organic materials.
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The Tennessee Department of Agriculture reported this month that two commercial chicken flocks had been found to have been infected with H7N9 highly pathogenic flu.
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The highly pathogenic H5N6 avian flu has been confirmed in three cities and counties, the Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine said.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's agriculture ministry said the highly pathogenic H5N6 strain of avian flu had been found in a poultry farm in southwestern Sichuan province.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's agriculture ministry said the highly pathogenic H5N6 strain of avian flu had been found in a poultry farm in southwestern Sichuan province.
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Highly pathogenic bird flu led to the deaths of about 50 million birds, mostly egg-laying hens, in the United States in 2014 and 2015.
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The highly pathogenic virus has spread to 60 poultry farms since mid-December, prompting veterinary authorities to cull over 450,000 birds, agriculture ministry data showed.
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Unlike with Ebola, which has one of the highest fatality rates of any known pathogenic virus, 80% of people infected with Zika show no symptoms.
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In a separate report, China also reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H7N9 bird flu in a backyard in the Shaanxi province, the OIE said.
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In 2014 and 2015, during a widespread outbreak of highly pathogenic avian flu, the United States killed nearly 50 million birds, mostly egg-laying hens.
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Studies have shown that bacterial colonies (pathogenic ones, we might add) take up residence inside those porous squares — no matter how often you clean them.
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A 2010 report by labor inspectors said management used "pathogenic" restructuring methods such as forcing people into new jobs and giving them unattainable performance objectives.
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However, clinical tests suggested it was a low pathogenic strain of the disease which health chiefs said appeared to represent a minimal risk to humans.
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But the researchers discovered more of the potentially pathogenic bacteria, like Moraxella osloensis, on the sponges collected from people who said they routinely disinfected them.
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The highly pathogenic virus jumped into humans in Hong Kong in 1997 and re-emerged in 2003-2004, spreading from Asia to Europe and Africa.
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This disappearance seemed to leave us with lowered levels of the cells that recognize and fight pathogenic intruders, offering germs an open window for incursions.
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In Europe, Lyme disease is caused by multiple pathogenic species of Borrelia, said Per-Eric Lindgren, a professor of medical microbiology at Linkoping University in Sweden.
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But there are other pathogenic variants in both of those genes that 23andMe does not look at, as well as additional genes clinically associated with Parkinson's.
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This is a recognition that the zillions of apparently non-pathogenic bacteria on and in human bodies, hitherto largely ignored, are actually important for people's health.
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Since mid-November, the particularly pathogenic H5N8 strain of the virus has found its way to Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Germany, and now the Netherlands as well.
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Originally discovered in breastmilk, part of its potential protective mechanism is the broad spectrum of antibiotic (reuterin) it produces, which may limit colonization by pathogenic bacteria.
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The outbreak, which was detected late last month, is considered low pathogenic, meaning it is not as contagious or deadly as other varieties of the disease.
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They inoculated bars of soap with pathogenic bacteria, in this case E. coli and Pseudomonas, and had 16 subjects wash their hands with the inoculated bars.
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Highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu has spread across a number of West African countries in the past two years, hitting poultry farms in Niger and Cameroon.
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A "highly pathogenic" strain of the H5N1 avian flu has been reported in China&aposs Hunan province, China&aposs Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's agriculture ministry said on Friday it had confirmed an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N6 avian flu in Yangzhou city in eastern Jiangsu province.
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Chancroid is an infection caused by the bacterium Haemophilus ducreyi, the same genus as other pathogenic bacteria that can cause sepsis and meningitis in young children.
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Working in collaboration with Professor John Ward of The Ward Lab at University College London, Chieza's experiments employ the non-pathogenic bacteria Streptomyces which produces natural pigment.
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Between both base editors, the four kinds of changes that base editing can make could, in theory, correct more than 60 percent of known pathogenic point mutations.
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It also would likely trigger more import bans from trading partners, after South Korea, Japan and other countries limited imports after the highly pathogenic case in Tennessee.
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Animal studies have shown that if you increase the amount of simple sugars in the diet, that'll change the growth potential of [pathogenic] bacteria in the gut.
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"The highly pathogenic character of this virus strain has yet to be confirmed," it said, adding the authorities established a three kilometer sanitary perimeter around the site.
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Highly pathogenic, or lethal, bird flu led to the deaths of about 50 million birds, mostly egg-laying hens, in the United States in 2014 and 2015.
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"Following our work and that of others, there is now a non-zero probability that pathogenic microbes could be revived, and infect us," Claverie told the BBC.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Bulgaria has reported two outbreaks of the highly pathogenic H5 bird flu virus, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Monday.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa has detected an outbreak of avian flu in seabirds, citing the highly pathogenic H5N8 strain that infected the country's poultry industry last year.
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Baines, who was not involved in the research, explained that within some groups of bacteria, there are many different members, some pathogenic (or disease-causing), others harmless.
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It was the first confirmed case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in a commercial U.S. flock this year and the first-ever HPAI case for Tennessee.
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"Our study shows that bearded men harbor a significantly higher burden of microbes and more human-pathogenic strains than dogs," Professor Andreas Gutzeit told the Daily Mail.
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As a general rule it's best not to eat something that is potentially teeming with bacteria, many of which may be pathogenic (meaning they can cause disease).
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A "highly pathogenic" strain of the H5N1 bird flu has been reported in China&aposs Hunan province, Chinese officials said, according to a Saturday report from Reuters.
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According to Lovley, the E. coli strain is non-pathogenic, and it's a bacteria in the bulk production of chemicals used in various acids and even alcohol.
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Even more concerning was a patent document on the SCN23A gene that listed this mutation (a change in a single amino acid in the gene) as pathogenic.
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The H5N1 strain is regarded as highly pathogenic, but less dangerous than the even more contagious H5N8 strain found in several European countries in the past few weeks.
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Tears from mice with C. mastitidis were more lethal to pathogenic strains of the fungi Candida albicans and bacteria Pseudomonas than the tears of mice lacking the bacteria.
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"Climate change is likely to be playing a role in the development of more dangerous Vibrios, meaning that the more pathogenic ones are becoming more numerous," Noble said.
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The birds in Alabama did not show clinical signs of sickness, which indicates they did not have a highly lethal, or pathogenic, form of the virus, Cole said.
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The highly pathogenic H5N8 virus was found in wild birds in the Aland islands in the Baltic Sea between Finland and Sweden, the office said in a statement.
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The move comes as the number of cases of the highly pathogenic H5N6 strain rose to six on Friday since the first cases were reported a week ago.
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The strain, H5N2, is different from the highly pathogenic H7 virus detected in a chicken breeder flock in Tennessee farm contracted by U.S. food giant Tyson Foods Inc.
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"It appears to be more highly pathogenic and it is spreading more quickly than the H5N8 virus that occurred in 2014," Agriculture Minister Kim Jae-soo told reporters.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture said this represented the first confirmed case of highly pathogenic H7 avian influenza (HPAI) in commercial poultry in the United States this year.
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It also would likely trigger more import bans from trading partners, after South Korea, Japan and other countries limited imports after the first highly pathogenic case in Tennessee.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African poultry producer Astral Foods confirmed a second outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu at one of its farms, the company said on Wednesday.
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As of Wednesday, a total of five cases of highly pathogenic avian flu had been confirmed in the country's four regions, the agriculture ministry said in a statement.
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The Worst That Can Happen: A nasty old sponge could lead to the spread of foodborne, potentially pathogenic diseases, according to a recent study published in Scientific Reports.
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In some outbreaks of low pathogenic flu, infected poultry can be slaughtered for meat if they have time to recover from the disease and test negative for it.
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"It appears to be more highly pathogenic and it is spreading more quickly than the H5N13 virus that occurred in 2014," Agriculture Minister Kim Jae-soo told reporters.
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France's Agriculture Ministry added in a statement that the highly pathogenic H5N8 virus had been found in wild birds in Hungary, Poland, Germany, Croatia, the Netherlands and Denmark.
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This week Saudi Arabia announced a temporary ban on imports of live birds, hatching eggs and chicks from the region of Dobrich due to highly pathogenic avian influenza.
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The outbreak means France, the European Union's biggest poultry breeder, will not be able to regain for now its international status as being free of highly pathogenic flu.
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U.S. officials are working to determine how a Tennessee farm, which was a supplier to Tyson Foods Inc, became infected with a strain of highly pathogenic H7 bird flu.
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"A major benefit of Crispr is that we can program it to kill only specific pathogenic bacteria and leave alone the rest of our healthy microbes," Dr. Marraffini said.
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However, The H7N9 strain is highly pathogenic in humans, causing severe respiratory disease, but is not virulent among birds, making it nearly impossible for farmers to detect, experts said.
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"Whether we are successful in the next 100 years in having effective strategies against pathogenic bacteria … comes down to whether we can have multiple classes of antibacterials," Mobashery says.
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"Another great opportunity for dogs to transfer potential pathogenic and antimicrobial-resistant bacteria to humans is by 'kissing' people in the face immediately after they have eaten," Hansson said.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu at a farm in the Free State province, agricultural industry body group AgriSA said on Friday.
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However, 12 human cases of infection with the highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N6) virus have been identified in China since 2014, according to the National Institutes of Health.
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Unlike pathogenic mutations that are known to cause disease or benign ones that don't, these genetic variations just aren't understood enough to know if they are involved or not.
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France, the European Union's largest agricultural producer, has had 69 outbreaks of highly pathogenic bird flu in eight administrative departments in the southwestern part of the country since late November.
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Nearly 40 countries—including some in Europe—have reported new outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza of various strains in poultry or wild birds since November, according to the WHO.
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In 2014 and 2015, during a widespread outbreak of highly pathogenic avian flu, primarily of the H5N2 strain, the United States killed nearly 50 million birds, mostly egg-laying hens.
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"Given the far-reaching implications, providing direct evidence for correction of the pathogenic allele, rather than the inability to detect the mutant allele, cannot be overemphasized," Egli and Church write.
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South Korea has confirmed the country's first outbreaks of the highly pathogenic H5N6 bird flu virus and has ramped up quarantine measures in response, agriculture ministry officials said on Friday.
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A concerning report in the New York Times this weekend detailed how multiple strains of Candida auris, a drug-resistant species of pathogenic fungus, have quietly spread across the globe.
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In Tennessee, authorities have started to cull the infected flock of 262.00,000 chickens in Lincoln County, to contain the highly pathogenic H7N9 flu, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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They wrote, "The dangers encased in ice are real, and with the increases in melting of the ice worldwide, the risks from the release of pathogenic microbes also are increasing."
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PARIS (Reuters) - France last month detected a case of low-pathogenic H7 bird flu at a farm in the center of the country, a report from the French agriculture ministry showed.
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Also adding to the pressure on Beijing was the announcement this weekend that a "highly pathogenic strain" of H5N1 bird flu has been confirmed in Hunan province, which borders Hubei province.
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The new outbreak comes after the detection of highly pathogenic H73 bird flu last week in a chicken breeder flock in Tennessee farm contracted by U.S. food giant Tyson Foods Inc.
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On Sunday, the USDA confirmed the farm in Tennessee was infected with highly pathogenic bird flu, making it the first case in a commercial U.S. operation in more than a year.
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"We haven't seen any evidence that there's contamination of onions from any pathogenic bacteria in irrigation water," said Reitz, a scientific adviser to the Malheur County Onion Growers Association in Oregon.
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Bacteria that cause food-borne illness -- including Salmonella and a pathogenic strain of E.coli -- have been shown to survive on pennies, nickels and dimes and can hide out on ATM machines.
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"The probability of transmission of potentially pathogenic organisms is increased by crowding, delays in medical evaluation and treatment, rationed access to soap, water, and clean laundry" among other factors, Bick wrote.
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PARIS, March 7 (Reuters) - The United States reported an outbreak of low pathogenic avian flu in a turkey flock in Wisconsin, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Tuesday.
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Most alarmingly, some kitchen equipment tested positive for non-pathogenic forms of Listeria—and that meant that conditions were also ripe for the formation of the Listeria associated with food poisoning.
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The zinc finger technology is delivered by a non-replicating, non-pathogenic virus: one that doesn't make you sick and one that is commonly used by gene therapy scientists, Conner said.
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But there must be a single hierarchy with both authority and responsibility for identifying pathogenic threats, marshaling and administering the resources to deal with them, and coordinating responses with other nations.
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They bite, and their feces on the street may be a serious hazard, containing microorganisms that not only are pathogenic to humans, but in some cases are also resistant to antibiotics.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Germany reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu virus in the central state of Saxony-Anhalt, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Tuesday.
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The case is the sixth case of highly pathogenic bird flu reported by China this year, compared with just four cases reported to the OIE in 2017, according to its website.
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Although the health ministry has yet to identify the specific strain of the virus that hit the Philippines, health and farm officials say initial tests have ruled out the highly pathogenic H5N1.
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The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural affairs on Thursday said in a statement that the risk from highly pathogenic bird flu had dropped, with no new cases reported since June 19.
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Yes, the ATCC has known pathogenic samples in its biological culture collection, and yes, Zika virus is one of them, and YES, scientists can request access to these specimens for research purposes.
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On March 5, the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed the first U.S. case of highly pathogenic flu in commercial poultry in more than a year at a chicken farm in southern Tennessee.
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In China, over 100 cases of human contamination of H7N9 - a highly pathogenic strain - have been detected, leading to 20 deaths in December, according to the National Health and Family Planning Commission.
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HAMBURG (Reuters) - Germany has discovered a case of the highly pathogenic H5N8 strain of bird flu in a wild duck, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Monday.
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Highly pathogenic bird flu is often fatal for domesticated poultry and led to the deaths of about 50 million birds, mostly egg-laying hens, in the United States in 2014 and 2015.
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The highly pathogenic case in Tennessee was the first such infection in a commercial U.S. operation in more than a year and heightened fears among chicken producers that the disease may return.
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For instance, the finding could help predict whether a live attenuated vaccine candidate could revert to a pathogenic form, possibly triggering an outbreak, Andino and his co-authors wrote in the study.
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South Africa confirmed early in July that outbreaks of the highly pathogenic strain of bird flu had been detected on commercial layer farms in two provinces, placing the affected farms on quarantine.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's agricultural department confirmed on Wednesday two more outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu have been detected on commercial layer farms in the provinces of Gauteng and Mpumalanga.
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SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's authorities reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu virus on a duck farm in the southeastern region of Yambol, the food safety agency said on Thursday.
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Another possibility is that a previous non-pathogenic version of the virus was circulating in people for some time before the mutation at the cleavage site occurred and it started spreading rapidly.
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To his amazement, he discovered that if he injected a heat-killed, virulent strain of Streptococcus pneumoniae, followed by a live, nonvirulent strain, bacteria that were normally innocuous would somehow become pathogenic.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Zimbabwe has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu at a commercial poultry farm in Mashonaland East province, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Friday.
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PRAGUE, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Slovakia detected its second case of the highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu virus at a farm in the west of the country, the Agriculture Ministry said on Monday.
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SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu virus on a farm in the northeastern district of Dobrich, the national food safety agency said on Monday.
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The National Collection of Pathogenic Viruses (NCPV) is one of a handful of centers worldwide that make viruses available to authorized scientists - and not all of them have managed to satisfy their customers.
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That's different to other strains, such as the highly pathogenic H5N255 that struck South Korean farms in December, prompting the government to call in the army to help cull some 2000 million birds.
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"If a variant is reclassified to being pathogenic, then it matters to the patient," said senior author Theo Ross, a cancer geneticist and professor of internal medicine at the university, in a statement.
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BEIJING/PARIS (Reuters) - China has lifted a ban on French poultry imports that has been in place since December 2015 following an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu in the European country.
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As if one dangerous disease was not enough for China right now, the national government over the weekend reported a "highly pathogenic" outbreak of bird flu at a chicken farm in Hunan Province.
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"The paper leaves me wondering if some combination of plant defense priming and application of pathogenic biocontrol agents could yield more effective pest suppression without the use of harmful chemical pesticides," he wrote.
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"We speculate that current assessments may have missed a substantial proportion of potential genotypes generated by on-target Cas9 cutting and repair, some of which may have potential pathogenic consequences," reads the paper.
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And when patients stayed in the hospital for a long time, microbes that could potentially become pathogenic mutated more quickly and acquired genes that made them more likely to be resistant to antibiotics.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Iraq has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu in Diyala in the center of the country, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Monday.
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France, the European Union's largest agricultural producer, has recorded 69 outbreaks of highly pathogenic bird flu in eight administrative departments in the southwest of the country since late November, farm ministry data showed.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Slovakia has confirmed an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5 bird flu virus, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Thursday, citing a report from the country's agriculture ministry.
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Last year, almost 50 million chickens and turkeys died in the United States because they were infected with a fast-moving outbreak of highly pathogenic bird flu or killed to contain the disease.
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Animal threats like highly pathogenic avian influenza and foot-and-mouth disease further demonstrate that biothreats are not isolated to human populations, and a whole of government strategy is needed to address them.
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All 5,830 ducks at the farm will be culled, the agency said in a statement, adding it is the first case of the highly pathogenic virus in the Balkan country in 10 months.
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Astral, which detected the highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu on some of its farms in 2017, said earlier this month it did not suffer any losses due to the Avian Influenza or Listeriosis.
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Dr. Edgell reasoned that most types of E. coli are typically part of a healthy gut microbiome, and would already be present if a person ingested pathogenic Salmonella by, say, eating a contaminated salad.
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The Brazilian yellow-fever outbreak is an opportunity to put this right: to understand better the two-way pathogenic traffic involved, and also the fact that outbreaks can harm species other than Homo sapiens.
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Another highly pathogenic outbreak would likely represent a financial blow for poultry operators such as Tyson Foods Inc and Pilgrim's Pride Corp because it would kill more birds or require flocks to be culled.
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As well as Germany, Hungary, Austria and Israel, Switzerland, Poland, the Netherlands, Denmark and Croatia have also reported outbreaks of the highly pathogenic H5N8 avian influenza, more commonly called bird flu, in recent weeks.
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" Holley says, adding that restaurants choosing to serve raw meat should be "ensuring that their suppliers are able to declare that there are no pathogenic bacteria in the food that is being served raw.
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The highly pathogenic variant has only been reported in China's southeastern Guangdong province and will become more apparent in some flocks if birds begin to die off, making detection and control easier, FAO said.
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Crops grown in an unhygienic environment where farmers use sewage or industrial spills to water their vegetables may be contaminated with pathogenic micro-organisms and chemicals likely to cause serious diseases, TFDA officials said.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Ghana has reported two outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5 bird flu on farms, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Friday, citing a report from Ghana's agriculture ministry.
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In a statement Wednesday, the South Korean Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said it confirmed a "highly pathogenic strain of H5N6 avian influenza" on a chicken farm in Pyeongtaek in Gyeonggi Province.
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" It tested models with and without filters and determined that the filters "most likely reduce the number of potentially pathogenic bacteria with the potential to colonize hands but do not eliminate the risk entirely.
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Its authors call out that further study is needed to determine just how pathogenic the bacteria in the sponge are, and there ought to be a controlled study on how sanitation changes the sponge's microbiome.
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PARIS, June 3 (Reuters) - Niger has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus at a poultry site in the capital Niamey, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Friday.
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" A 2013 study conducted on consumers who used expired makeup found that people commonly used items beyond the expiration date and researchers concluded that these "products have a high level of contamination with pathogenic microorganisms.
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By making super-viruses that are more pathogenic and easily transmissible, scientists are able to study the way these viruses may evolve and how genetic changes affect the way a virus interacts with its host.
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The virus is highly pathogenic in birds and has hit companies such as RCL Foods, which said last week that the cost of the outbreaks at its farms amounted to 50 million rand ($3.84 million).
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PARIS, Dec 29 (Reuters) - Russia has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N2 bird flu on a farm in the Kostromskaya Oblast region, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Friday.
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It said that the latest outbreak did not affect domestic farms and that provided no new case was found it should regain its international status of free of highly pathogenic avian flu on Dec. 3.
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The spread of highly pathogenic flu could represent a financial blow for poultry operators, such as Tyson Foods Inc and Pilgrim's Pride Corp, because it would kill more birds or require flocks to be culled.
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The southern region of Plovdiv was most affected by the highly pathogenic virus H5N8, she said, pointing out that some 300,000 birds, mainly ducks, were culled and another 130,000 were to be killed on Saturday.
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If vaginal seeding is being considered, women should be informed of the risks and tested for infectious diseases and potentially pathogenic bacteria, including group B streptococci, herpes simplex virus, chlamydia and gonorrhea, the committee stated.
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Some ants incorporate resin from spruce trees in their nests to fend off pathogenic microbes, employing the same antibacterial compounds, called terpenes, that we use when we mop the floor with the original Pine-Sol.
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The besotted ants in turn defend their green udder against potentially destructive insect predators; clean away pathogenic fungi and bacteria; fertilize the soil with their nitrogenous waste; and spread the cactus's seed to new sites.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The Democratic Republic of Congo has reported three outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5 bird flu among poultry in the northeastern province of Ituri, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Wednesday.
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The H7 strain of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, or HPAI, was found in a flock of 73,500 chickens in Lincoln County, in the central part of the state on the border with Alabama, the USDA said.
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In a paper published today in the journal Immunity, an international team of scientists detail a beneficial bacterium discovered living on the eyes of mice that helps fight pathogenic species that cause conjunctivitis, or pink eye.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa said on Thursday it was suspending all trade in birds and chicken products from neighboring Zimbabwe after it reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu at a commercial poultry farm.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Cambodia has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N6 bird flu virus among poultry, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Thursday, citing a report from Cambodia's agriculture ministry.
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The highly pathogenic H5N8 strain infected and killed 14 birds at a non-specified location in the Saudi capital, the Paris-based OIE said in a report on its website, citing information from the Saudi authorities.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea raised the country's bird flu alert status on Wednesday to its second-highest level following three more outbreaks of the highly pathogenic H25N28 strain after the first cases were confirmed last week.
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As for pandemics, recent incidents like the Ebola and SARS outbreaks have shown that scientists working with the international community can effectively contain the spread of pathogenic microbes that might otherwise have caused a global disaster.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Vietnam has reported three outbreaks of highly pathogenic H13N6 bird flu among backyard birds, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Friday, citing a report from the Vietnamese farm ministry.
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KIEV (Reuters) - The European Union has suspended imports of Ukrainian poultry meat and related products after Kiev reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic bird flu, the state food safety and consumer protection service said on Thursday.
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HAMBURG (Reuters) - German authorities have confirmed outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N6 bird flu type at a farm on an island off the German North Sea coast, the Schleswig-Holstein state agriculture ministry said on Wednesday.
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When Milojevic decided to grow M. sedula on a meteorite (an unregulated process, since the organisms are non-pathogenic and meteorites aren't particularly rare), she wanted to see at the outset how the species would react.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Niger has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N53 bird flu virus among poultry, the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) said on Friday, as the disease continues to hit flocks across West Africa.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's agriculture ministry said on Monday it will raise its bird flu alert to the maximum from June 6 as a case found on Saturday was confirmed to be the highly pathogenic H5N8 strain.
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Alabama has "not received any definitive" test results that confirm its cases are highly pathogenic, which is the more lethal form of the virus for poultry, a spokeswoman for the Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries said.
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They found that ordinary cash is quite hospitable to bacteria, more than a third of which were potentially pathogenic species, including the well-known and potentially deadly E. coli and V. cholerae (the bacteria that cause cholera).
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When the scientists exposed bees to the Roundup ingredient, the bees' healthy bacteria decreased, disrupting their microbiome—a mini-ecosystem of gut microbes responsible for all manner of tasks, such as blocking pathogenic invaders and processing food.
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"It's interesting work that shows that base editing can directly correct a pathogenic beta-thalassemia mutation in the promoter of the beta-thalassemia gene in cells from beta-thalassemia patients, and in cloned human embryos," Liu said.
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Despite the spread of the disease, the number of outbreaks of highly pathogenic bird flu has slowed in France since late December, with only five reported since the start of the year, the farm ministry's website showed.
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She served as regional medical director for the Texas Department of State Health Services in the Houston area during the health crises caused by the Ebola virus, highly pathogenic avian influenza, Zika virus, and several natural disasters.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's agriculture ministry said on Wednesday it has ordered a cull of 186,100 farm birds to prevent the spread of bird flu after more cases of the highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu were confirmed.
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If your friend touches the offending sponge with their hands, they may transfer the bacteria into and on their bodies, possibly causing pathogenic infections like salmonella, leading to symptoms such as diarrhea, chills, dehydration, fatigue, and fever.
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Read more: 10 everyday items that are crawling in bacteria "Our study shows that bearded men harbor a significantly higher burden of microbes and more human-pathogenic strains than dogs," Andreas Gutzeit told The Mail on Sunday.
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" A United Nations panel studying epidemics recently concluded: "The emergence of a highly pathogenic influenza virus, which could rapidly result in millions of deaths and cause major social, economic and political disruption, is not an unlikely scenario.
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Listeria monocytogenes is a species of pathogenic bacteria that causes listeriosis — a serious infection that can be fatal in young children, the elderly people and people with weakened immune systems, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
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The incidents involved samples of anthrax DNA, the bacteria responsible for botulism, samples of Bird Flu, and a "highly pathogenic strain of H5N1 influenza" that had contaminated a relatively safe flu virus sample, according to the CDC.
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The gene — which helps to generate cholesterol — might have been a crucial step in the development of our big, energy-hungry brains, and it may have played a key role in defending those brains from pathogenic invaders.
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BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) - An eastern Indian state ordered the cull of more than 2,500 chickens and other poultry after four dead crows and three dead poultry tested positive for the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus, officials said on Tuesday.
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Until now, H7N9 bird flu has shown little or no clinical symptoms in birds, despite being highly pathogenic in humans, but China has detected an evolution in the virus that is capable of causing severe disease in poultry.
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Two outbreaks of low pathogenic H5N9 bird flu were confirmed in the past week among poultry in the Gers administrative department, France's agriculture ministry said in a report posted online by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
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The local government and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said late Thursday that chickens at a farm in the area of Sanuki city in Kagawa had been confirmed testing positive for a highly pathogenic avian influenza.
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According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the designation "highly pathogenic" refers to the potential of the virus to kill chickens and is not related to how infectious it may be to humans, mammals or other species of birds.
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While no clinical studies have demonstrated cross-transmission of bugs from a professional to a patient via neckties, they have been found to be contaminated by potentially pathogenic bacteria and to be possible sources for physician-transmitted infections.
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Authorities have discovered a highly pathogenic strand of the H5N8 bird flu in the corpses of five wild ducks in the area this week, although they said there was no evidence the virus could be transmitted to humans.
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U.S. and Japanese researchers studied a sample of this new highly pathogenic strain to see how well it spread among mammals, including ferrets, which are considered the best animal model for testing the transmissibility of influenza in humans.
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However, Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, a co-author of the study, described it as the first in the world to demonstrate gene-editing to be safe, accurate and efficient in correcting a pathogenic gene mutation in human embryos.
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The office said it would make further studies to find out whether it was the highly pathogenic H5N8 virus which has hit wild birds and farms in several countries in Europe and the Middle East in last weeks.
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Scientists need to understand the changes in the microbial environment to ensure it's safe for the astronaut's immune systems—they're certainly never going to live in sterile environments, and NASA is concerned about microbes becoming more pathogenic in space.
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If you put in a request for any specimens that are even mildly pathogenic, you need to show a lot of credentials, and you need to back those up with legal documents signed by representatives of your research institution.
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Further tests are being carried out to determine whether the virus is the same highly pathogenic strain that is currently present in Britain and mainland Europe, the department said, adding that results would be available by mid next week.
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Phiri said tomato production and trade had been hit by tuta absoluta, a pest that tunnels through leaves, while the highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu had killed thousands of migratory wild birds in Uganda and spread to domestic poultry.
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France, which has the largest poultry flock in Europe, has been among countries most severely hit by the highly pathogenic H5N83 type of bird flu that has spread in Europe, the Middle East and Africa since late last year.
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BEIJING, Feb 1 (Reuters) - * China reported an outbreak of a highly pathogenic strain of H5N1 bird flu at a farm in Shaoyang city of the southern province of Hunan, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said on Saturday.
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The local government and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) said late Thursday that chickens at a farm in the area of Sanuki city in Kagawa had been confirmed testing positive for a highly pathogenic avian influenza.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea on Sunday said it had confirmed an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N6 bird flu at a duck farm in the south west of the country and raised its bird flu alert level to the highest ranking.
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"The gut of the cockroach is a very rich community of thousands of species of bacteria, and some of these can be pathogenic," says Coby Schal, an entomologist at North Carolina State University who has been studying roaches since the 1970s.
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A strain of low pathogenic H5N2 avian flu has been discovered in a flock of 84,000 turkeys in Barron County, Wisconsin, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said in a report posted on the website of the Paris-based OIE.
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PARIS (Reuters) - China reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N6 bird flu at a duck farm in the Guangxi province, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Wednesday, citing a report from the Chinese agriculture ministry.
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PARIS, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Israel has reported a case of the highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu virus in a wild bird, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Wednesday, citing a report from Israel's agriculture ministry.
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These new arrangements of humans provide better "feeding grounds for the pathogenic population," and to top it off, we're nowhere near a reliable system for figuring out what changes to avoid, or knowing when we've crossed a line into vulnerability.
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The highly pathogenic virus was found this week at a farm located outside a broad restriction zone set up last month to stop the spread of the disease that led a growing number of countries to ban French poultry products.
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CHICAGO, March 9 (Reuters) - Low-pathogenic bird flu has infected a commercial chicken flock in Tennessee, the state's agriculture department said on Thursday, days after a more dangerous form of the virus killed poultry at a different facility in the state.
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When Minnesota veterinarian Dr. Jill Nezworski made a visit to sick turkeys on March 26, 2015, she was almost certain of the problem: the birds were infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza, which spreads rapidly and can quickly eliminate entire flocks.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Health authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guizhou have confirmed a new human case of H7N9 avian influenza, state radio said, bringing the total number of human infections of the highly pathogenic strain to 19 this winter.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Egg prices in South Africa are expected to increase by as much as 20 percent after an outbreak of the highly pathogenic avian flu in June forced farmers to cull egg laying birds, industry experts said on Thursday.
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Austria said in January that it was ordering all poultry be kept indoors after the highly pathogenic H5N8 virus was found in dead wild birds near its borders with Germany and Switzerland, and other cases were reported in the region.
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PARIS (Reuters) - South Africa reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu on a commercial broiler breeder farm in Mpumalanga province, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Thursday, citing a report from the South African farm ministry.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Myanmar has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu on a farm in the southern Tanintharyi Region, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Tuesday, citing a report from Myanmar's livestock ministry.
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Subsequently, they discovered that quorum sensing is also used by pathogenic bacteria to cause infection, opening up an intriguing idea: what if it was possible to stop infections by blocking bacteria's ability to communicate, rather than by killing them with antibiotics?
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The case originated when officers with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency in Los Angeles intercepted a package on March 18 that was sent from the UK and contained 60 separate COVID-19 treatment kits labelled as "Anti-Pathogenic treatment".
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PARIS (Reuters) - Israel has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu at a turkey farm in the northern region of Hazafon, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Thursday, citing a report from Israel's agriculture ministry.
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Early tests of the virus in the avian flu outbreak ruled out the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain, but Philippine officials have sought further testing by an Australian animal health laboratory that is part of a global network combating the disease.
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BEIJING/PARIS (Reuters) - China reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H25N21 bird flu at a farm in its northwest Qinghai province, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Tuesday, citing a report from the Chinese agriculture ministry.
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Most of the cases reported in China this year have been a highly pathogenic form of H7N9, the same strain that killed hundreds of people in China last year, hitting consumer demand and leaving the egg and broiler industries reeling.
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