Avian Influenza What IS avian influenza (AI)? Similar answers, including the United States Department of Agriculture’s in 2015 are “a virus that infects wild birds (such as ducks, gulls, and shorebirds) and domestic poultry (such as chickens, turkeys, ducks, and geese) (USDA, 2015). Also known as the bird flu around the world, the common classification labeled with this well-known virus is H5N1. In part, this is true; H5N1 is a strain of the bird flu, but not the only one. Avian influenza viruses
Avian influenza (AI) is a viral disease that commonly infects poultry and other birds, but does not necessarily make wild aquatic birds sick because it occurs naturally among them. When exposed to this virus, domesticated poultry can become sickened or even killed. “AI viruses can infect chickens, turkeys, pheasants, quail, ducks, geese and guinea fowl as well as a wide variety of other birds, including migratory waterfowl” (USDA Ag. Research). The so-called “bird flu” has also proven itself to the
Chapter:1 Introduction & Review of Literature 1.1 Enzyme Enzymes are biological catalysts,chemical reactions.Enzyme may act are called substrates and molecules called enzyme converts these into different products. Enzyme are utilized commercially ,for example, synthesis of antibiotics. The study of enzyme is called enzymology. French chemist Anselme payen was the first to discover an enzyme,diastase,in 1833.The
6931 Term Paper 1 Date: 09/28/2015 HBeAg (Hepatitis B eAntigen) treatment for Hepatitis B Viral infections are quite common throughout the world. There are some deadly viruses that affect human being which can lead to death. Some of the viruses that we know that causes fatal diseases are Ebola virus (EBOV strain), Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Influenza Virus (H1N1), Hepatitis A, B and C virus. Due to viral infections there have been epidemics in past, but by performing research we are trying
term as project and these projects must be procured and managed thus making the concept of procurement and project management inevitable in the construction industry. This paper will begin by briefly introducing the reader to the construction industry and try to find and give appropriate definition for the industry. This paper identifies and explain the relevant area of professional practice such as construction project and procurement management in the context of the construction industry to a reader
STRAYER UNIVERSITY A STUDY OF QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN ANGOLAN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM A DIRECTED RESEARCH PROJECT SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTERS HEALTH SERVICE ADMINISTRATION SUBMITTED TO SUSAN CRIM, MBA BY ELMA CARVALHO WASHINGTON, DC July 2007 ABSTRACT Angola is a third world country located on the west coast along the south Atlantic in southern Africa. It won its independence from Portugal in