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Avian in sentence

41 examples of Avian in a sentence

And so if we can do that, then we can free up resources for buying drugs that you really do need for treating AIDS and HIV and malaria and for preventing avian flu.
We now call them non-avian dinosaurs and avian dinosaurs.
Avian dinosaurs are our modern birds.
You know, my partners at Kleiner and I were compulsive networkers, and so when we see a big problem or an opportunity like avian flu or personalized medicine, we just get together the smartest people we know.
We recently saw a case where some researchers made the H5N1 avian influenza virus more potent.
And if avian flu hits, or for any other reason the world decides that malaria is no longer as much of a priority, everybody loses.
Please note it's a museum specimen, but there's no chance you'll get the avian flu.
It's very common in many phyla, from invertebrates to avian species, mammals, and, of course, even in primates.
When seeking melodic inspiration, look no further than dawn and dusk avian orchestras or to the natural lilt of emphatic language.
So, literally, a few minutes before that, I downloaded this scientific paper about calculations on avian defecation, which is really quite interesting, because it turns out you can model this as something called "Poiseuille flow," and you can learn an awful lot about the physics of the avian rectum.
Moreover, there is huge potential for Africa to lead the world in avian tourism.
Developers around the world have come up with an amazing variety of ways to layer useful data on top of the maps, from bus routes and crime statistics to the global progress of avian flu.
This is an avian quarantine facility where all imported birds coming into America are required to undergo a 30-day quarantine, where they are tested for diseases including Exotic Newcastle Disease and Avian Influenza.
It was before the avian flu had reached Europe.
This year's H1N1 threat was actually a human, avian, swine mixture that arose in Mexico.
You could see an avian strain that would infect the poultry flocks, and then we would have no eggs for our vaccines.
That's the sound of genetic mutations of the avian flu becoming a deadly human flu.
Worse, imagine what would happen when we encounter a genuinely dangerous new pathogen, such as a strain of H5N1 avian flu (which in its current form has a mortality rate more than 100 times higher than H1N1) that is easily transmissible between humans.
Against this background, scientists are concerned about the recent uptick in epidemics of diseases such as Zika, Ebola, and avian flu.
If all this turmoil weren’t enough, the discovery of avian flu in the northern provinces further undermines political stability.
Moreover, keeping large concentrations of animals in confined spaces facilitates the proliferation of infectious diseases that can spread to humans, such as avian flu.
As University of Ottawa virologist Earl Brown put it after a Canadian outbreak of avian influenza, “high-intensity chicken rearing is a perfect environment for generating virulent avian flu viruses.”
So far, a relatively small number of human beings have died from the current strain of avian influenza, and it appears that they have all been in contact with infected birds.
That won’t be easy to do, but we could make a start by imposing a tax on factory-farm products until enough revenue is raised to pay for the precautions that governments now have to take against avian influenza.
The pandemics of SARS, avian, and swine influenza have cost the global economy an estimated $200 billion.
One proposal aims to protect native birds on Hawaii’s Kauai Island by using gene drives to reduce the population of a species of mosquito that carries avian malaria.
Taiwan should also be allowed to participate in the International Atomic Energy Agency in the area of nuclear safety, just as it became an observer at the World Health Organization during the SARS and avian flu pandemics of the 1990’s.
For example, open pens for poultry may increase the spread of communicable diseases like avian influenza.
Similarly, we are also seeing the emergence and spread of new infectious diseases, such as AIDS, SARS, and avian flu.
Such is the case with AIDS and avian flu.