![]() Most worrisome for human health is this strain's capacity for broad xenospecific transmission. Many birds also suffer infection in other organs, including the liver, spleen, kidney, and the brain, the last infection leading to ataxia and convulsion. ![]() ![]() Internally, infected poultry are marked by lesions and hemorrhaging in the intestinal tract and the trachea, with blood discharge from the beak and cloaca. The latter is characteristic of the cyanosis and oxygen deprivation suffered by many human victims of the 1918 pandemic. The clinical manifestations include swelling of the wattles and infraorbital sinuses, congestion and blood spots on the skin of the hocks and shanks, and a blue discoloration of the comb and legs ( Yuen and Wong 2005). The poultry infected with this version of the virus suffer more than the gastrointestinal condition typical of avian influenza. Despite another human death in January, the outbreak is broken. Authorities order the destruction of all of Hong Kong's 1.5 million poultry and block new imports from Guangdong, the mainland province across the Shenzhen River from which some of the infected birds had been transported. Hong Kong acts decisively on that information. By mid‐December poultry begin to die in droves in the city's markets and it now seems most humans infected had handled birds. The deaths spur panic in the city and, with the onset of the regular flu season, send many patients to the hospital worried their symptoms might be those of the new flu. Fourteen additional infections rapidly follow. Two weeks later, a teenager and two adults are infected. In November a 6‐year‐old is infected, recovering. Shocking too, the outbreak proves persistent. This appears the first time such a strain has jumped the species barrier and killed a human. The outbreak fizzles out, but 2 months later a 3‐year‐old boy dies of the same strain, identified as a highly pathogenic version of influenza A (H5N1). An outbreak of deadly bird flu sweeps through poultry on two farms. Influenza, 200 nm long, seems able to integrate selection pressures imposed by human production across continental distances, an integration any analysis of the virus should assimilate in turn. It appears the region's reservoir of near‐human‐specific recombinants was subjected to a phase change in opportunity structure brought about by China's newly liberalized economy. ![]() Particular effort is made to explain why H5N1 emerged in southern China in 1997. The novel contribution here is the attempt to integrate these with the political economies of agribusiness and global finance. In this article, I review H5N1's phylogeographic properties, including mechanisms for its evolving virulence. In contrast, little effort has been aimed at identifying influenza's social origins. Much attention has been paid to the virus's virology, pathogenesis and spread. His kids, playboy Javi (Bryan Craig) and business-school grad Alicia (Denyse Tontz), disapprove of Santiago’s marriage to their mom’s best friend Gigi (Roselyn Sanchez)–who has two feuding adult daughters of her own: sexy, insecure Carolina (Feliz Ramirez) and mousy, insecure Yoli (Justina Adorno).Abstract: The geographic extent, xenospecificity, and clinical course of influenza A (H5N1), the bird flu strain, suggest the virus is an excellent candidate for a pandemic infection. Patriarch Santiago (Demián Bichir of The Hateful 8 and Weeds) inherited the place following the death of his wife now he’s falling behind on payments to the loan sharks who’ve been keeping him afloat. Premiering June 17 on ABC, it chronicles the fractious Mendoza clan’s efforts to hold on to the last family-owned hotel in Miami Beach. Though it’s built on a foundation of soap stalwarts–sex, power, money, family, body-con dresses–executive producer Eva Longoria’s disappointing Grand Hotel lacks any such presence. Beverly Hills, 90210 had Luke Perry and, for a while, Shannen Doherty. But in order to survive in prime time, especially amid so much competition, a soap needs to be better than that: to land as twisty, tawdry fun rather than as a rote rehash of tropes, the show must hook us with a killer cast–even if it’s just one scene stealer. Benignly addictive, they compensate in volume for what they lack in originality and talent. Daytime soap operas are a breed unto themselves.
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