avian flu 復習
アメリカテネシー州の養鶏場で鳥インフルエンザが検出されました。
Bird flu found at Tennessee chicken farm as virus surges in Asia
An outbreak of avian flu in Tennessee has health officials on alert as the virus has surged across parts of Asia in recent months.
The Tennessee Department of Agriculture confirmed yesterday that approximately 74,000 chickens from a commercial farm in Lincoln County were culled after some of the animals tested positive for a strain of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).
Today, Tennessee government officials said the strain of the virus found in Tennessee is a North American strain, which they don't believe is connected to the avian influenza A(H7N9) strain in Asia that has caused serious illness in humans.
The news comes days after the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report that found increased activity the strain in China and Hong Kong that led to 460 human infections.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/bird-flu-found-tennessee-chicken-farm-virus-surges/story?id=45938138
取り上げる表現は"avian flu"です。
『ジーニアス英和辞典』第４版（大修館）で"avian"/éɪviən/を調べてみると、「鳥（類）の」とあり、"avian flu"で「鳥インフルエンザ」となります。
語源は、ラテン語で「鳥」を意味する"avis"から来ています。
LDOCEでは、"an infectious disease that spreads very quickly among birds and can sometimes kill them. People can also catch the disease."と定義されています。
アジアの一部地域で初めに発生し、遥か海を渡ってアメリカテネシー州にウイルスが移ってきました。さらにそこから、ウィスコンシン州にも感染拡大しているとのことです。(Akim)
