influenzas

Pigs actually make wonderful influenza mixing pots because they're susceptible to avian and human influenzas, which is why it's not inconceivable to have a hodge-podge of three different influenza viruses in one (avian-pig-human).

qdiosa Diary Entry qdiosa 2009

The following sentence exhibits remarkable insight, considering the state of medical art at that time: "I have long been satisfied from observation, that besides the general colds now termed influenzas (which may possibly spread by contagion, as well as by

Four American Leaders Charles William Eliot 1880

We rarely have wars anymore, and no pandemics, influenzas, or horrible diseases to “cull the herd”.

2008 October 07 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

We rarely have wars anymore, and no pandemics, influenzas, or horrible diseases to “cull the herd”.

The Religion Of Environment « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

The recent H1N1 influenza outbreak in humans, which was initially described as "swine flu," is a type A influenza but different from influenzas found in pigs, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Pfizer Deal Highlights China's Clout 2010

Surely they were worried about the two influenzas producing something a little nastier than what's going around now.

qdiosa Diary Entry qdiosa 2009

They cite the current A/H1N1 "swine flu" virus, which is a made-in-the-wild brew of human, bird and pig influenzas.

In Attics and Closets, 'Biohackers' 2009

The cocktail of influenzas, if it had not been discovered by alert laboratory specialists in the Czech Republic in February, could have been administered to subjects, after which, some experts feared, the two viruses could have undergone reassortment, producing a new virus that possessed the lethality of bird flu and the communicability of human flu.

Virologist to make his case for lab origin of swine flu 2009

[Associate director for epidemiologic science in the Influenza Division of the CDC Carolyn Bridges] explains that producers have little incentive to test for swine influenzas, in part because they aren't included on a list of 150 "reportable illnesses" that, when detected, must be documented with the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).

Paula Crossfield: Unchecked Swine Flu, (Sick?) CAFO Workers and Lax Regulation, Oh My 2009

Other diseases that have come from animals -- usually because we confine, kill and/or eat them -- include the virus that causes AIDS, the new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, known as mad-cow disease, and the influenzas that annually kill more than 15,000 people in the United States.

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