Sentences with phrase «cause deadly infections»

Beyond the skin irritation and discomfort, flea infestations can also cause deadly infections, flea - allergy dermatitis (OUCH!)
The bug doesn't bother most people, but it can cause deadly infections in people with AIDS or burns who have weakened immune systems.
The virus, which exists in Africa and on the Arabian Peninsula, often cause deadly infections in cows, sheep and goats, and usually lead to miscarriages in pregnant animals.
Sept. 30, 2016 - All Sammy's Milk Baby Food powdered formula is recalled because it isn't manufactured according to federal regulations and has not been tested for Cronobacter, which can cause deadly infections in children.
Many strains of bacteria are becoming resistant to even the strongest antibiotics, causing deadly infections and becoming a global health issue.

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But when they escape the intestines, they can cause particularly deadly infections in the blood and can form abscesses all over the body.
It turned the water was contaminated with Naegleria fowleri, an amoeba that causes deadly brain infections, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
These include many deadly medication errors, infections caused by roach droppings from the ceiling in the operating room, inebriated clinicians, atrocious acts performed on women and their newborns without their knowledge either because of anesthesia or because baby wasn't in eye - sight of mother.
Ecologically sustainable bamboo forests grown for fabric production do not require the use of pesticides or anti-fungal agents, and the fabric produced from bamboo kills 99.8 percent of germs that cause the potentially deadly Staph infection, along with many other dangerous microbes, according to a study by North Carolina State University's College of Textiles.
But several researchers have warned that the vaccine could trigger antibodies in a naïve subject that enhance the ability of a second infection to cause severe disease, including a deadly hemorrhagic fever.
Among the affected microorganisms were three that commonly cause deadly hospital - acquired infections, including Staphylococcus aureus and two emerging bacterial pathogens, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia and Acinetobacter baumannii, that are a growing cause of infections in hospital intensive - care units.
But it can prove deadly when those bacteria contaminate an open wound or cause an infection after surgery.
Schlievert's research has previously shown that superantigens cause the deadly effects of various staph infections, such as toxic shock syndrome, sepsis, and endocarditis.
Perhaps salmonella was simply one of multiple infections that together became deadlier and caused cocoliztli, he says.
Streptococcus pyogenes, a spherical bacteria that typically grows in long chains, can cause minor infections like impetigo to potentially deadly diseases like streptococcal toxic shock syndrome.
Tamoxifen, a drug currently used to treat breast cancer, also kills a fungus that causes a deadly brain infection in immunocompromised patients.
Steven Pavletic, who heads the Graft - versus - Host and Autoimmunity Section at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, says the standard treatments — corticosteroids such as prednisone — «carpet bomb» the immune system, causing a host of side effects and weakening the immune response to potentially deadly infections.
The infection can also cause potentially deadly brain inflammation.
For example, the superbug MRSA, which can cause hard - to - treat skin infections, appears to contaminate approximately 5 % of U.S. retail meat; mysterious skin hives or allergic reactions may be a sign of alpha - gal meat allergies; a lack of safety thresholds in U.S. meat for drug residues, toxic metals, and pesticides can potentially result in jaundice and skin cancer; a case of Vitamin A poisoning from fish actually resulted in one man experiencing such serious peeling of his skin it took more than three months to heal; using tanning beds instead of natural sunlight or supplements to get Vitamin D is linked to an increased risk of the deadliest kind of skin cancer; milk consumption has been associated with increased acne risk; and low antioxidants levels in the skin may correlate with the development of wrinkles.
This bizarre infection, or plague, causes humans and animals to turn into deadly, powerful creatures.
Scientific studies have documented that the deadly powder on gloves increases wound infection, causes adhesions that can compress the bowels, and spreads tumor cells throughout the cavity.
Also, make sure that there's nothing lying around that your dog could get into that would cause infections or complications to his health — toxic substances such as antifreeze are deadly.
Fleas and ticks are a nuisance whose bites cause inflammation, pain, and sometimes skin infection directly, but they are also a vector for transmission of dangerous, even deadly infectious disease.
The virus commonly causes anemia or lymphoma, but because it suppresses the immune system, it can also predispose cats to deadly infections.
Skin allergies, hot spots, skin infections, deadly disease and even internal parasites are some of the troubles fleas and ticks can cause.
Although it takes a number of years before dogs show signs of infection, once infected, it is a particularly deadly and nasty illness, with worms that have grown up to 10 inches in length clogging the heart, causing severely infected dogs to die suddenly during exercise or excitement.
Even though the chance of infection is lower during the winter months, it only takes one mosquito to cause this deadly disease, and if one gets in the house this could be enough to cause a problem.
The first two viruses cause upper respiratory, eye and mouth infections, and the last causes severe and deadly diarrhea and bone marrow suppression.
Now the Independent reports that a new research paper, published in the German science journal Naturwissenschaften, has shown that bees exposed to minute doses of imidacloprid — also a neonicotinoid pesticide — are left considerably more vulnerable to infections caused by a deadly parasite, nosema:
Some 3T heater - cooler devices manufactured by LivaNova, PLC may have caused dangerous and deadly Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) infections in many patients.
Some 3T heater - cooler devices manufactured by LivaNova, PLC may have caused dangerous and deadly Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) infections in many...
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