• Examples of such exchanges occurred in the recent past during the SARS outbreak, and again this past year as Avian Influenza appeared in poultry at several sites in the Gaza Strip and Israel. (who.int)
  • Throughout the last year (most recently in Jerusalem on 20 April), public health experts from the Palestinian Authority, Israel and Jordan met several times under the umbrella of an NGO, Search for Common Ground, to elaborate on aspects of Avian Influenza and to prepare for the possible future pandemic of the disease. (who.int)
  • Or the outbreaks of avian influenza, which affected broiler production across the EU. (perstorp.com)
  • BACKGROUND: Avian influenza (AI) virus detections occurred frequently in 2022 and continue to pose a health, economic, and food security risk. (cdc.gov)
  • Avian influenza (H5N1) also known as bird flu is primarily a disease of birds that is caused by several types of influenza viruses. (who.int)
  • The highly pathogenic avian influenza is a highly contagious disease affecting wild birds and poultry with occasional infections in human. (who.int)
  • The highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza has spread rapidly through the Eastern Mediterranean Region in 2006, with large epizootics reported in Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, occupied Palestine territories, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Djibouti and Sudan. (who.int)
  • Alec has previously conducted research studying the evolution of kinetic, mobile skulls in lizards, birds, and non-avian dinosaurs and the burrowing adaptations of North American shrews. (callumross.org)
  • Recent years witnessed the discovery of a great diversity of early birds as well as closely related non-avian theropods, which modified previous conceptions about the origin of birds and their flight. (frontiersin.org)
  • We here present a review of the taxonomic composition and main anatomical characteristics of those theropod families closely related with early birds, with the aim of analyzing and discussing the main competing hypotheses pertaining to avian origins. (frontiersin.org)
  • Such novel discoveries are important and unprecedented in that they include fossils with preserved soft tissues, mainly a diversity of feather types across different non-avian dinosaurs and basal birds. (frontiersin.org)
  • As these new birds transition to adulthood, they often look like a cross between their parents and avian aliens. (birdwatchersgeneralstore.com)
  • And for the harvest of their seeds, A favorite for the ever-hungry birds, Affecting with their avian song and flashing feathers. (anngreenleafwirtz.com)
  • Birds belong to the Avian class, which sets them apart from both reptiles and mammals. (learnbirdwatching.com)
  • Since it was first reported in Vietnam in 2003, the disease has been responsible for human outbreaks and deaths in 15 countries in Asia, Europe, Middle East and Africa resulting in 603 human cases including 356 deaths. (who.int)
  • Only two days ago I wrote that there were two steps to watch out for for a possible avian flu pandemic. (colloidsforlife.com)
  • What do you think of the possibility of an avian flu pandemic? (colloidsforlife.com)
  • He has also worked on projects investigating enamel thickness in various reptiles and collaborated on biomechanics projects in various non-avian dinosaurs and other reptiles. (callumross.org)
  • Last year, avian veterinarian Dr Coetzee de Beer of the Center for Avian, Reptiles and Exotics (CARE) in Klapmuts near Paarl decided that it was time to give Legs another chance. (scibraai.co.za)
  • Snakes are elongate, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. (absoluteastronomy.com)
  • Insertion loss is typically measured using microphone-based acoustic manikins to measure the decrease in sound pressure level transmitted into the ear canal, which precisely measure the change in air conducted sound, but neglect alternate pathways to the inner ear such as bone conduction. (bvsalud.org)
  • Thesis Title: Middle and inner ear morphology and ecology. (callumross.org)
  • Otitis externa caused by various other infections can potentially spread to the middle ear, eardrum and inner ear and cause deafness. (catwatchnewsletter.com)
  • In most tetrapods, the tympanic middle ear provides impedance matching between the air and inner ear fluids and enhances pressure hearing in air. (scielo.br)
  • All feline ears have Malassezia in them," explains William Miller, VMD, a board-certified member of the American College of Veterinary Dermatology and medical director at Cornell Universitys College of Veterinary Medicine. (catwatchnewsletter.com)
  • They have binocular-vision eyes, which otherwise appear feline, black or pink feline-noses, and pointed but comparitively small feline ears. (wikidot.com)
  • The Ear Organs of Hearing and Balance Anatomical Chart illustrates ear anatomy including right auricle, right tympanic membrane, middle ear, auditory ossicles, membranous labryinth, membranous. (anatomywarehouse.com)
  • reported that, the terrestrial adult salamanders, the fully aquatic juvenile salamanders and even lung fish which are completely not adapted to aerial hearing were able to detect air borne sound without having a tympanic middle ear. (scielo.br)
  • For this, the veterinarian is likely to use an otoscope - a flashlight-like instrument that provides a magnified view of the ears inner depths. (catwatchnewsletter.com)
  • This chart also illustrates cross-section of normal ear anatomy and provides a close up photo of normal right eardrum, sectioned into quadrants. (anatomywarehouse.com)
  • Caracals are wild cats found in Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. (awwanimals.com)
  • In some cases, however, the culprit is an organism that normally resides harmlessly within a cats ear - a one-celled fungus, or yeast, known as Malessezia . (catwatchnewsletter.com)
  • Says Dr. Miller, "Some owners just cant keep themselves from futzing around with their cats ears. (catwatchnewsletter.com)
  • All cats are susceptible to Malessezia proliferation in their ears, he notes, although animals living in warm, humid climates are at greater risk. (catwatchnewsletter.com)
  • The signs of what Dr. Miller refers to as "yeast otitis" are the same as those associated with otitis externa in general: The cats outer ear is likely to be inflamed, and the animal will hold its ears flat back against its head, scratch at them without letup and shake its head frequently - as if trying to dislodge a bothersome object. (catwatchnewsletter.com)
  • However, Malessezia is eminently treatable, Dr. Miller says, noting that he has never seen a yeast infection that progressed beyond the outer ear, even though the natural flora in a cats ears normally thrive as far as the ear drum and even beyond. (catwatchnewsletter.com)
  • The yeast can cause irritation in the ear canal," he says, "and there can be a lot of debris and goo in there that can affect a cats ability to hear. (catwatchnewsletter.com)
  • Dr. Miller strongly cautions owners against trying to relieve a cats ear problems on their own. (catwatchnewsletter.com)
  • The cause of this infection could be a rampant overgrowth of yeast in the ear canals. (catwatchnewsletter.com)
  • But if something changes the climate in the ear, the organisms begin to multiply and become too numerous - and you end up with infection. (catwatchnewsletter.com)
  • Also, says Dr. Miller, "Well clean out the ear and use a microscope to examine a sample of the debris in the ear canal - and with Malessezia infection, there will be lots of it. (catwatchnewsletter.com)
  • Measles is often a severe disease, frequently complicated by middle-ear infection and pneumonia. (welltogo.com.au)
  • Otitis Media (Acute) Acute otitis media is a bacterial or viral infection of the middle ear, usually accompanying an upper respiratory infection. (msdmanuals.com)
  • With its feathers missing, the cardinal's head is tiny and black, with exposed, oddly shaped ear holes that look like they've been eaten out by termites. (birdwatchersgeneralstore.com)
  • They aren't visible for the ear openings are hidden underneath its feathers. (greathornedowl.net)
  • For his dissertation, Alec is investigating the evolution of the mammal jaw and the mammalian middle ear. (callumross.org)
  • The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development's Animal Health Department has declared that all provinces and cities nationwide are free of avian flu, with no new outbreak detected. (vietnamplus.vn)
  • As of the middle of May this year, Vietnam discovered seven cases of A/H5N1 outbreak in 11 farms in the five provinces of Cao Bang, Vinh Long, Quang Ninh, Dak Lak and Dak Nong. (vietnamplus.vn)
  • Earlier this year, Bunnycorp's Philip van der Walt was one of the 3D printing experts involved in a world first - the transplanting of 3D printed middle ear bones by Prof Mashudu Tshifularo of the University of Pretoria. (scibraai.co.za)
  • A mammal is a vertebrate belonging to the class Mammalia, which is characterized by things like three bones in the middle ear, a neocortex in the brain, mammary glands, and true hair. (elegant-question.com)
  • A caracal is a medium-sized wild cat native to Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. (awwanimals.com)
  • A caracal is a medium-sized cat found in Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. (awwanimals.com)
  • A caracal is a nocturnal, medium-sized wild cat found in Africa and the Middle East. (awwanimals.com)
  • I expect to see continued growth in developing markets, like in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia. (perstorp.com)
  • The caracal is known for its long, black tufts of hair on its ears, which are used to communicate with other members of its species. (awwanimals.com)
  • He's an unmistakably beautiful animal, with pumpkin-orange eyes and feathery ear tufts. (focusingonwildlife.com)
  • An allergic disease of some sort, for example, can make the surface of the ear canal abnormally moist and thus foster yeast growth. (catwatchnewsletter.com)
  • Further, there is no record of foot-and-mouth disease and blue-ear disease, the department confirmed. (vietnamplus.vn)
  • Ear canal (EAC), middle ear, and intracochlear sound pressure levels were measured bilaterally with fiber-optic pressure sensors. (bvsalud.org)
  • CONCLUSIONS: Insertion loss measured in the cochlea was lower than in the ear canal, suggesting substantial contributions from transmission pathways in parallel with air conduction (e.g., bone conduction) were present, which will require novel strategies to mitigate. (bvsalud.org)
  • Best binaural processing is presumed to require spectrally-matched inputs at the two ears, but peripheral pathology and/or impacts of hearing devices can lead to mismatched inputs. (bvsalud.org)
  • Hearing with an atympanic ear: good vibration and poor soundpressure detection in the royal python, Python regius. (scielo.br)
  • This can be done through sensors such as ear tags, neck collars, or cameras and mics in livestock houses. (perstorp.com)
  • Among all causes, he observes, the most typical is the prolonged and inappropriately routine use of liquid ear cleaners by overzealous owners who are unaware that the constant lubrication of an animals ear canals is bound to be counterproductive. (catwatchnewsletter.com)
  • He wore several layers of cloth over his face, bound tightly behind his head just below his ears, with only his eyes uncovered. (wattpad.com)
  • The condition usually affects middle-aged or older dogs and occurs more often in large and medium dogs. (vvhcny.com)
  • In a ddition the parties negotiated and reached an initial agreement in relation to the potential lease of the office space in the daughter compan y locations in the Middle East and East ern Europe. (mcm.org.pl)
  • it falls approximately in the middle of the distribution of previous pigeon audiograms and supports the finding of Kreithen and Quine (Journal of Comparative Physiology 129:1-4, 1979) that pigeons hear infrasound. (researchgate.net)
  • Axis Scientific 5x Enlarged 3-Part Human Ear Model and Study Guide The Axis Scientific 3-Part Human Ear Model is a 5x enlarged anatomical view of the human ear. (anatomywarehouse.com)
  • Trying to hit something in the middle for half-elves that favor their human ancestry in the looks. (larian.com)
  • This chart provides a visual overview of common middle ear conditions and their treatments as well as normal ear anatomy. (anatomywarehouse.com)
  • The most common cause of this unpleasant condition and its potentially deafening consequences is an assault on the ear by an outside invader, the ear mite. (catwatchnewsletter.com)
  • Jewelry -ear piercings, necklaces, bracelets, anklets, and tail rings- are greatly valued and usually made of precious metals and stones, though the most common is the malleable, aquamarine metal rypil, which is easily molded into softly-chiming chains and rings. (wikidot.com)
  • Responses were measured with specimen ears unoccluded, as reported previously, as well as fitted with four types of HPDs. (bvsalud.org)
  • Avian Flu was a full scale medical emergency in the Orient and reporting the incident was the responsible thing to do. (rannsiracusa.com)
  • For the ears they could do both length and angle, with the full elves having the longer and more oblique options. (larian.com)
  • Once in a while you may even see a cardinal that is completely bald, except for a single red feather sticking out of the middle of its head (as if it's doing a bad impression of a Native American). (birdwatchersgeneralstore.com)
  • Long nosebridge with a bump in the middle. (furrycritter.com)
  • They have the biggest foot span in comparison to that of long-eared owls or even barn owl. (greathornedowl.net)
  • In the Middle Triassic, the early pistosauroid ancestors of plesiosaurs left their ancestral coastal habitats and increasingly adapted to a life in the open ocean. (peerj.com)
  • The binaural interaction component (BIC) of the auditory brainstem response (ABR) is the difference obtained after subtracting the sum of right and left ear ABRs from binaurally evoked ABRs. (bvsalud.org)
  • Left ear stimuli were fixed at 4000 Hz while right ear stimuli varied over a â ¼2-octave range (re: 4000 Hz). (bvsalud.org)
  • It was the middle of the day but the light was dimmed almost to nothing by the filter of cloud and dust and smoke: it reminded him of an eclipse he'd witnessed, two decades ago, while sailing the Winfast Gap - the ocean had been blanketed in shadow, the sky gone to black. (wattpad.com)
  • As a result of the Mediator and the mediation proceeding the Parties not only solve d the dispute i.e. the arr ears in payments which resulted from the fault of both parties , but initiated potential cooperation on the markets where they operate through its daughter companies. (mcm.org.pl)
  • I want there to be a small table with a lamp for when it gets dark and plenty of space in the middle to dance, to lay down on the floor, or put a platter of candles. (thefaithfulfeminists.com)
  • The moose swiveled its great muzzle in unison with two flapping sailcloths-for-ears. (orionmagazine.org)
  • Compared to Eurasian eagle owl, the great horned owl's ears are smaller. (greathornedowl.net)