Sentence examples for bird virus from inspiring English sources

A 33-year-old man died here on Monday of the bird virus.

That, Dr. Kawaoka said, let the bird virus grow in mice.

First, the team will infect tissue with both the bird virus and a common human flu virus and see what grows.

To make matters worse, the usual methods of producing vaccines might fail if a bird virus did start to circulate among humans.

In 1918, for instance, the Spanish flu pandemic that killed about 50 million people worldwide probably originated in a bird virus, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A10 Officials Kill 8,000 Birds State and federal agriculture officials, attempting to contain a month-old outbreak of a deadly bird virus known as exotic Newcastle disease, have killed more than 8,000 birds in southern California.

The experiments show that a 1918-like flu virus could emerge in the wild as bird viruses swap genes and mutate.

But, Dr. Kawaoka asked, why were strains of that virus, unlike most bird viruses, also able to grow so well in people?

If a poultry worker is unlucky enough to catch both conventional and avian flu, Dr. Perez said, the fear is that the human and bird viruses will mix in a process called reassortment.

The researchers studied the genetic structure of 3,000 bird viruses and 400 that occur in humans.

The devastating Ebola virus might be able to fly from one victim to the next, speculate scientists who have firmed up a link between Ebola and bird viruses.