Sentences with phrase «cause mild disease»

Dr. Margaret Chan, WHO Director - General, stated that «From past experience, we also know that influenza may cause mild disease in affluent countries, but more severe disease, with higher mortality, in developing countries.»

So far, the SARS virus — whose transmission the World Health Organization (WHO) said had been halted everywhere by 5 July — had not been known to cause mild disease.

«Historically, Zika virus has just caused mild disease, but as it moved into the New World, in Brazil, we started to notice these more serious consequences associated with it,» says Aliota.

At time of writing, the virus had not become more severe, causing mild disease in most sufferers but making a small number — probably less than 1 per cent — extremely ill.

Investigators showed the new strategy protected mice — vaccinated against the H3N2 influenza A flu strain, which causes mild disease — from succumbing to the more dangerous H5N1 and H7N9 strains weeks later.

«It could be spreading at very low levels in the Middle East, but mostly causing mild disease we don't see.

Protozoal parasite causing mild disease in adult dogs.

Bottom line: «For most pet dogs, and probably most cases, it causes mild disease.»

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«Zika virus disease usually causes mild illness, and most people will not develop any symptoms.

While the virus is often symptom - free and usually mild, it can also cause birth defects like microcephaly in babies and trigger immune diseases like Guillain - Barre syndrome in adults.

Most people who get Zika have mild symptoms — and many don't even realize they have the virus — but the disease can cause severe neurological problems, including Guillain - Barre Syndrome in adults and microcephaly in fetuses.

For example, Eli Lilly & Co. (NYSE: LLY) has a phase 3 study of solanezumab under way in mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease patients that may slow disease progression by breaking up amyloid plaque buildups thought to be a major cause of the disease.

It's estimated that as many as 1,000,000 Americans suffer from inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, which cause mild to severe symptoms that at best can be managed and at worst can lead to life - threatening complications.

The most severe form of the disease is fatal, and even the milder form can cause mild retardation and skeletal problems.

The disease is generally pretty mild — on par with flu — but health workers have recently found that a small number of patients seem to go on to develop an autoimmune disorder that can cause nerve damage and paralysis called Guillain — Barré syndrome.

Today, the Black Death strain is survived by perhaps hundreds of Y. pestis strains that, while milder than their forebear, still cause disease globally.

When he delved into the genomes of those with a milder disease, he often saw not just a mutation in the affected clotting - factor gene, but also a mutation in another gene — the first causing haemophilia, the tendency to bleed, and the second causing thrombophilia, the tendency to clot.

Their results, they add, «suggest that one of the differences between [milder] gastroenteritis and [dangerous] typhoid fever is that the pathogen causing the latter disease evades neutrophil chemotaxis.»

Yet the researchers found that most strains caused milder versions of the disease than the original virus.

Hepatic encephalopathy occurs when the liver can not remove certain toxins and chemicals, such as ammonia, from the blood.1 These toxins and chemicals then build up and enter the brain.1 Hepatic encephalopathy is one of the major complications of cirrhosis (scarring of the liver), and a leading cause of hospital re-admission due to its recurrence, despite treatment.1 It can occur suddenly in people with acute liver failure, but is seen more often in those with chronic liver disease.1 Symptoms of hepatic encephalopathy include mild confusion, forgetfulness, poor concentration and personality or mood changes, but can progress to extreme anxiety, seizures, severe confusion, jumbled and slurred speech and slow movement.1 The first step in treatment is to identify and treat any factors that cause hepatic encephalopathy.2 Once the episode has resolved, further treatment aims to reduce the production and absorption of toxins, such as ammonia.1 Generally, there are two types of medication used to reduce the likelihood of another hepatic encephalopathy episode — lactulose and rifaximin.2 However, it remains a leading cause of hospitalisations and re-hospitalisations in cirrhotic patients, despite the use of the above - mentioned standard of care treatment.

Four distinct human serotypes of dengue sicken humans, and an initial infection with one typically causes only mild disease.

This non-life threatening form of the disease causes only mild anemia and does not generally require treatment.

One is that H7N9 causes severe disease in people but only mild or even no symptoms in poultry.

While some people experience chronic infection with mild symptoms, about 10 %, will develop severe inflammatory disease that can affect the gastrointestinal, urinary, and nervous systems, in some cases causing cancer or leading to death.

Luckily, this mutation often doesn't cause disease, and when it does, it's a mild form.

While many cases of GVHD are mild, the disease can be severe or become chronic and causes side effects such as mouth ulcers, gastrointestinal distress and rashes.

Keywords: Mild cognitive impairment, dementia, Alzheimer's disease, laboratory tests, blood analysis, urine analysis, metabolic cause

In this study, increased risk of death from several causes, including cardiovascular reasons were also described at an older age and for milder stages of renal disease in diabetic women that included a further deterioration due to worsening of glycemic control.

Another limitation is its inclusion of patients with severe early - onset heart disease, which is more likely to have genetic causes than milder disease.

Borrelia, rather, induces milder inflammatory responses and has mastered evasion of host immunity so as to cause moderate disease without being recognized and eliminated.

(BOSTON)-- It's estimated that as many as 1,000,000 Americans suffer from inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, which cause mild to severe symptoms that at best can be managed and at worst can lead to life - threatening complications.

The Zika virus is generally mild, but can cause severe birth defects such as microcephaly if a woman contracts the disease while pregnant.

They come in many different varieties, including rheumatoid arthritis, type I diabetes, thyroid disease, lupus, psoriasis, multiple sclerosis, and more, and can cause many different types of symptoms all over the body that range from mild to severe in nature.

You probably know that for those with celiac disease, exposure to gluten can cause a host of uncomfortable symptoms that range from mild irritations to major problems: headaches, bloating, joint pain, skin rashes, mood issues, intestinal damage and malnutrition, to name a few.

The toxins have been proven to cause abdominal distress in the intestines that range from mild discomfort, bloating to serious illnesses such as celiac disease, auto - immune conditions and severe brain damage.

In one large study published in 1996, German researchers tested Ginkgo extract on a group of 222 patients, aged fifty - five or older, who were diagnosed with mild to moderate dementia caused by either Alzheimer's disease or multi-infarct dementia.

FCV that causes feline respiratory disease may be asymptomatic (cause no symptoms) or be characterized by mild to severe symptoms.

These can be as mild as gingivitis (a gum disease that results in swollen, inflamed gums) and as serious as a bacterial infection that can spread through the dog's bloodstream causing damage to vital organs.

Kidney disease can also cause the bone marrow to decrease the production of red blood cells and cause a mild to severe anemia.

Chronic diseases like insulinoma, adrenal gland disease and heart disease can cause a mild to moderate anemia.

Infectious diseases such as Aleutian disease and Ferret Infectious Peritonitis can cause a mild to severe anemia.

This feline respiratory disease is characterized by either mild or severe symptoms affecting the respiratory tract (i.e. the nose, throat, pharynx, larynx and lungs) and eyes, causing profuse nasal and eye discharge.

This disease, which is transmitted by mange mites, usually causes only mild symptoms in people.

To some degree, the clinical signs depend on the severity — mild disease doesn't cause obvious problems, but severe disease often does.

«Infectious tracheobronchitis is a mild self - limiting disease that results in inflammation of the upper airways transmitted by air and caused possibly but not surely by several different viruses, mainly Parainfluenza virus and also by a bacteria — Bordetella Bronchiseptica, however, the exact cause may vary.»

Usually the disease is mild and self - limiting, causing bouts of harsh, dry coughing, sometimes severe enough to spur retching and gagging, along with a loss of appetite, but in rare cases it can kill.

Inflammatory airway disease (IAD), also known as mild to moderate equine asthma, is the second - leading cause of poor performance, behind lameness.

Most dogs remain asymptomatic and only experience mild forms of the infection, but some dogs can develop a severe disease; which can cause the dogs to experience lower respiratory tract infections.

Foods that are too fatty can be dangerous to pets in that they can cause a myriad of diseases ranging from mild gastroenteritis (stomach upset) to potentially life - threatening pancreatitis.

Non-core vaccines are those that protect against organisms that cause only mild diseases — the kind that usually «clear up» on their own — and which are not widespread in the area or easily transmitted from one animal to another.