Sentences with phrase «also infect people»

Roundworms and hookworms can also infect people, especially children.

Hookworms are parasites that live in the small intestine of the infected animal and not only affect dogs but they can also infect people.

Brucellosis is a disease that can also infect people through the urine.

Giardia is more common, and the form of the protozoa that infects dogs may also infect people.

There are other types of worms, called hookworms and roundworms that can also infect people, usually children.

In rare cases, the viruses can also infect people and cause life - threatening illness.

Not exact matches

There is also evidence that the virus can be spread through sexual contact with an infected person.

«There is also risk of subsequent local transmission... we expect there may be further cases, as most infected persons may display mild or no symptoms.»

According to the CDC, people usually get E. coli infections from «eating undercooked, contaminated ground beef,» however you can also become infected through «person to person contact in families and child care centers,» from drinking raw milk, after swimming in or drinking water that has been contaminated with sewage, and by having contact with infected farm animals.

City Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett yesterday identified the landmark lodging house's cooling tower as the source of the Legionella bacteria that infected 128 people and killed 12, but also declared that the incubation period for the microbes had passed, meaning the outbreak is officially over.

At that time scientists knew that antibodies from people infected by the 1968 pandemic virus also reacted with an influenza strain isolated in 1963 from flu - ridden ducks.

«It's something you can't see — the person next to you could be infected and you don't know,» says Steven Woloshin, who also studies risk communication at Dartmouth.

The deep look into the genes of transmitted H5N1 viruses also reveals the surprising degree to which the virus can mutate and genetically diversify in each infected host, a troubling trait for a pathogen that has so far infected 637 people, killing 378.

People transporting infected poultry are probably also contributing to the spread.

He also found viral particles on the sparrows» feathers, meaning infected merit release birds could pass the disease on to susceptible people.

A small number of people infected with HIV produce antibodies with an amazing effect: Not only are the antibodies directed against the own virus strain, but also against different sub-types of HIV that circulate worldwide.

People also have contracted variant CJD after exposure to BSE - infected cattle.

Alas, many also believe that monkeys infect people, which isn't true.

TB is also quietly maintaining its foothold in the United States; in 2000, more than 16,000 people nationwide were infected and about 1,000 died.

Campylobacter jejuni infects more than a million people yearly in the United States and is also known to trigger other autoimmune disorders such as Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Reiter's arthritis.

Scientists are uncertain as to why the Epstein - Barr virus, which also infects most people and lingers in the body, doesn't trigger a big ongoing immune response like cytomegalovirus does.

When someone is suspected of being infected, health workers isolate them, but also try to trace everyone that the person has recently had contact with and monitor these contacts for 21 days, the maxiumum incubation period of the disease.

«It could also help people with a weaker immune system fight infections or better respond to immune vaccination, such as seniors or chronically - infected patients.»

While the virus is primarily transmitted to people through the bite of an infected mosquito, sexual transmission is also possible.

That remoteness makes the response more difficult — but it's also reason to be confident that this outbreak can be contained, Leroy says, because infected people won't travel as much as they do in West Africa.

The Harvard researchers have also implicated two cancer - causing viruses: human papilloma virus, which can cause cervical cancer, and Epstein - Barr virus, which infects about 95 per cent of people and has been linked to several types of tumour.

If such «antibody - dependent enhancement» (ADE) also takes place in people, it could have helped fuel Zika's recent explosion in Brazil, where more than 90 % of people in some communities have been infected with dengue.

The impetus for the plan is evidence from recent clinical trials showing that treating people with HIV earlier not only reduces the likelihood of disease progression but also lowers the chances that they will infect others.

According to Wilson, monoclonal antibodies from (deliberately infected) animals were routinely used in the first half of the 20th century to try to treat diphtheria (an upper - respiratory illness that killed roughly 15,000 people annually in the early 1920s until a vaccine was formulated against it in 1924) and tetanus (a potentially fatal infection also known as lockjaw, because one of the muscles it destroys is in the jaw).

This type of delivery system could not only improve patients» adherence to their treatment schedule but also be used by people at risk of HIV exposure to help prevent them from becoming infected, the researchers say.

They add that it could also be used to treat people already infected with the virus.

A treatment aimed at biochemically chipping the virus out of infected people's DNA is also in development.

«Furthermore, since T callipaeda is zoonotic and capable of infecting several other mammalian species, both people and cats should also be considered at risk of infection when travelling to such areas,» they warn.

There are many such others, and many of them can also occasionally infect animals or people.

The animals, which live in close contact with humans across the region, carry a wide variety of astroviruses, pathogens that commonly cause diarrhea in people and can also infect the kidney, liver, and brain, researchers report this week in PLOS Pathogens.

The authors have also estimated the so - called reproductive rate of the virus in each country, which represents the average number of people that each infected person in turn infects.

In addition to preventing disease and death, treatment is also a key prevention tool: abundant evidence now shows that infected people on treatment are less likely to transmit HIV.

Beyond this, the scientists also recommend combining of mo - lecular with serological tests which determine infection by detecting the antibodies developed by an infected person a few days after the infection.

More information is also needed on the exposure that infected people had to animals, Koopmans says.

He also will review how treatment of HIV - infected people early in the course of their infection can dramatically reduce the risk of transmitting HIV to an uninfected sexual partner, while simultaneously protecting the health of the infected individual.

Also, if «we prove that people who are acutely infected transmit the virus most, we can use this group as a target group for prevention measures.»

«There is wide variation in the strength of T - cell immunity when people are first infected with the virus, ranging from very strong and sustained to none,» notes Dr. Walker, who also is a professor of pediatrics and molecular virology, immunology, and medical genetics at The Ohio State University.

Murray says her finding also underscores the need to fight the virus, which continues to infect thousands of people in the United States annually.

Also known as «break bone fever» for the severe pain caused by infection, dengue now infects 50 million people annually, with 500,000 severe cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever and 22,000 deaths, according to the World Health Organization.

In one of those outbreaks one person was also infected, but survived.

A major challenge facing mass drug administration (MDA) programmes targeting the control and elimination of lymphatic filariasis or onchocerciasis is the serious adverse - sometimes life threatening - reactions that this treatment can have on people who are also infected with loisasis.

Researchers are also trying to further improve the natural versions of bNAbs (which are usually isolated from HIV - infected people), to make them even more potent.

Heterogeneity among persons infected with type 1 or 2 infection may also have contributed to the similarity in symptoms among these groups and the type 3 — infected patients.

They also revealed that the outbreak was more extensive than previously realised, finding that over twice as many people were carrying or were infected with the same outbreak strain.

Cells with similar characteristics accumulate during normal aging as well as in younger persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus, suggesting that the process of replicative senescence is not an artifact of cell culture but is also occurring in vivo.