Sentence examples for fatal epizootics from inspiring English sources
Although rarely fatal, epizootics among wild birds have been described; most affected raptors have been in captivity or rehabilitation centers (2, 4, 5 ).
A "fatal angina" or "distemper" (also described as a "sore throat") appears to have been epidemic in the Caribbean in 1770 77, 8), but in that era such terms usually indicated either diphtheria or streptococcal pharyngitis (9), neither of which causes fatal epizootics.
The North American WNV epizootic caused fatal disease in more than 200 avian species as well as in reptilian, and mammalian species, including humans [ 1, 4, 9- 16].
To identify possible risk factors or predictors of death due to influenza A(H5N1) infection and to describe clinical differences between H5N1 and human influenza cases during the Thailand H5N1 epizootic, we compared clinical characteristics of fatal H5N1 cases to non-fatal H5N1 cases, and characteristics of fatal H5N1 cases to fatal human influenza cases detected in the NAIS system.
This epizootic also caused human illness, including 1 fatal case (24 ).
The low-titered viremia level, even in the horse in whom fatal encephalitis developed, also indicates that the Mexican subtype IE epizootic viruses may be more neurotropic than other VEEV strains that apparently reach the central nervous system only after exceeding higher viremia titer thresholds (4, 6, 9 ).
Epizootic haemorrhagic disease virus (EHDV) infects wild ruminants, causing a frequently fatal haemorrhagic disease.
During the 2004 2006 influenza A(H5N1) epizootic in Thailand, we identified few differences in admission clinical or epidemiologic characteristics between fatal and non-fatal H5N1 cases; however, the presence of laboratory abnormalities in white blood cell counts and liver enzymes, hypotension, or ARDS may suggest a poor prognosis.
