Ferreting out influenza H5N1
…transmitted among humans. The virus is lethal in ferrets but does not transmit among the animals. Fouchier selected a transmissible H5N1 variant by ferret-to-ferret passage. This experiment involves infecting a…
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Influenza H5N1 virus versus ferrets, round two
…in ferrets. They inoculated a ferret intranasally with virus, waited 4 days, harvested virus from the respiratory tract, and infected the next animal. After ten ferret-to-ferret passages, the pool of…
N.Y. Times: H5N1 ferret research should not have been done
…is to allow viruses to spread from cell to cell, and could very likely be involved in ferret transmission. If changes in this protein lead to aerosol transmission among ferrets,…
Pandemic H1N1 influenza virus outcompetes seasonal strains in ferrets
…done in ferrets to determine how the 2009 pandemic H1N1 strain interacts with seasonal H3N2 and H1N1 viruses. Ferrets were intranasally co-infected with an H1N1 pandemic strain [Ca/04] and either…
TWiV 58: Nipah virus in ferrets
…Dr. Joshua Stillman to talk about passive antibody therapy for Nipah infection in ferrets, annual influenza immunization of children, facemasks to prevent influenza, predicting dengue outbreaks by the weather, and…
Kawaoka paper published on aerosol transmission of H5 influenza virus in ferrets
…ferrets. A reassortant virus with HA amino acid changes N158D/N224K/Q226L transmitted through the air to 2 of 6 ferrets. Viruses recovered from one of the animals contained a new change…