Wesley Snipes returns as the title character, this time he must side with vampires to try to destroy Reapers, a much
deadlier strain of vampires which are immune to silver and garlic, which are destroying vampires around the Prague area, and which are multiplying at an alarming rate.
He called claims of reduced levels of
the deadly strain of E. coli 0157: H7 «totally misleading.»
It is the first case of
the deadly strain of bird flu, which has killed more than 100 people worldwide, found in British birds, and it prompted a meeting of the cabinet emergency committee, Cobra, in Downing Street this morning.
«As they feed antibiotics to animals to keep them healthy, they are making our families sicker by spreading
these deadly strains of bacteria.»
With the help of fellow researchers from the Pasteur Institute in Paris, James and his colleagues were able to alter the DNA of Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes, which are major transmitters of the most
deadly strain of malaria — Plasmodium falciparum.
A deadly strain of MRSA was born in livestock treated with antibiotics, strengthening the case for restricting the practice
New findings are of particular interest to scientists now that the latest
deadly strain of flu, H7N9, is spreading in China — 82 people in China had been infected with the new strain of flu virus as of April 26, and 17 had died.
Now, a research team headed by investigators from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is the first to identify a mechanism by which influenza A, a family of pathogens that includes the most
deadly strains of flu worldwide, hijacks cellular machinery to replicate.
Cranberries may be the solution, by wiping out
a deadly strain of gut bacteria called helicobacter pylori, which is even suspected to cause acne.
The project was closed down years ago, but Hoak has continued raising
a deadly strain of the flesh - eating fish.
A potentially
deadly strain of airborne fungus that can infect healthy people and animals, including cats and dogs, is spreading in the Pacific Northwest.
Ans: VS - FCV is a relatively new, more
deadly strain of the traditional feline calicivirus, one of the two major respiratory viruses typically found in cats.
It's worth pondering this question anew, given the debate that's erupted over efforts to limit publication of details of new research producing
a deadly strain of the H5N1 avian flu virus that's transmissible in ferrets, which are a research stand - in for humans.
Instead, Henry Miller's article lists large scale disasters causing localised crop failures,
deadly strains of wheat pathogen and... Continue reading →
Not exact matches
The risk to the public from the outbreak
of the
deadly H5N1
strain of avian bird flu in Suffolk is «negligible», environment secretary David Miliband has insisted.
Health officials hope getting the word out about the severity
of this year's
deadly flu
strain can ultimately contain it.
The
strains of H5N1 that have managed to jump species and infect people are those that are most
deadly to chickens, says David Swayne, a veterinarian at the U.S. Department
of Agriculture.
In the meantime, Canada saw an outbreak
of another
deadly bird flu
strain — H7N3 — in September.
Strains that survive this assault, however, can evolve to defend themselves against future attacks, opening the door for
deadlier versions
of bacteria such as methicillin - resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which killed nearly 19,000 Americans in 2005 (the last year for which the U.S. Centers for Disease Control has comprehensive data).
► Last month, Science's news department reported an incident in March in which the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sent the U.S. Department
of Agriculture a sample
of low - pathogenicity H9N2 avian influenza that was contaminated by
deadly H5N1 avian influenza
strain.
Professor Ajit Lalvani from the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London, who led the study, said: «New
strains of flu are continuously emerging, some
of which are
deadly, and so the Holy Grail is to create a universal vaccine that would be effective against all
strains of flu.»
Many
strains of bacteria are becoming resistant to even the strongest antibiotics, causing
deadly infections and becoming a global health issue.
«We wanted to know the identity
of this antibiotic and the means by which
Strain 115 protects itself from its own antibiotic's
deadly effects,» says Griffitts.
Many researchers hope the complete genetic code
of the innocuous
strain will help them understand what makes this new
strain so
deadly.
While those factors may apply to all Group A strep bacteria, it may be M1's ability to keep antimicrobial peptides at bay that makes
strains with this version
of M protein so
deadly.
Investigators found four other incidents in the past decade when
deadly pathogens were mishandled, including an event in March when a sample
of the avian flu
strain H5N1 was contaminated with a more lethal
strain and accidentally shipped to a USDA lab without proper protections.
There are currently no vaccines or drugs approved for human use and no post-exposure treatment that has completely protected nonhuman primates against MARV - Angola, the most
deadly Marburg viral
strain, with a mortality rate
of up to 90 percent.
But Rita Colwell
of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and colleagues report this week that
of faecal samples taken from 81 people in November 2010, 17 had a different V. cholerae that does not make the
deadly toxin made by the El Tor
strain.
Because Ebola is so
deadly, creating a conventional vaccine
of inactivated whole virus, or a live weakened
strain is thought too far too dangerous.
Even more worrisome, the molecular signature
of one new
strain resembles a
deadly human neurological disease, sporadic Creutzfeldt - Jakob, leading to speculation that the new form
of mad cow disease could spread among humans through the consumption
of tainted beef.
So far, the killer virus looks like a run -
of - the - mill swine flu, not an avian virus as some virologists had suspected — leaving scientists to wonder why the
strain was so
deadly.
Previously, Dr. Smeyne and his collaborator Dr. Stacey Schultz - Cherry in the Department
of Infectious Disease at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN, showed that a
deadly H5N1
strain of influenza (so - called Bird Flu) that has a high mortality rate (60 percent
of those infected died from the disease) was able to infect nerve cells, travel to the brain, and cause inflammation that, the researchers showed, would later result in Parkinson's - like symptoms in mice.
As for H5N1, it may prove less
deadly in humans than in birds because variants
of H1N1, descendants
of the 1918 flu, have been circulating again since 1977 in Southeast Asia, and exposure to that N1 - bearing
strain may provide some protection.
Other forms
of MRSA have begun to spread outside
of hospitals; one
strain, known as USA300, is especially
deadly.
Virologists Masato Hatta and Yoshihiro Kawaoka and their colleagues at the University
of Wisconsin, Madison, decided to investigate what makes this particular
strain of flu virus so
deadly.
One particular
strain, Zaire ebolavirus, is one
of the
deadliest viruses we know and fatal in up to 90 %
of cases.
Kansas State University researchers developed and tested the NDV - H5Nx vaccine against H5N2, the
deadliest strain, in the course
of three months.
And although there is no direct evidence — like cut marks on monkey bones or monkey bones found in trash heaps —
of humans hunting the monkeys for food, Cooke says that in addition to hunting, the clearing
of land for farming and the introduction
of invasive species can all put a
deadly strain on native island populations, which are adapted to a very specific environment and have nowhere else to go.
He attributes the initial rise
of AIDS and the recent outbreaks
of SARS to viral
strains that mixed and morphed into
deadlier forms when their original wild - animal hosts came into closer contact with human butchers and hunters.
The flu incident occurred in March when a sample
of a relatively benign avian flu was accidentally contaminated with a
deadly influenza
strain at a CDC lab before being sent out.
It turns out the
strain is the victim
of an attack itself — infiltrated by viruses that inserted DNA for the toxins that stoke the
deadly fever.
«Hypervirulent»
strain of strep outbreak identified in Arizona and the Southwest: The emm59 clone
of group A Streptococcus is a
deadly type
of bacterial infection related to a previous outbreak in Canada.»
Technology such as high - yielding wheat varieties that tolerate drought and high temperatures, as well as resisting new or modified
strains of deadly crop diseases spawned in rapidly warming environments, are the outputs from WHEAT research that lead to positive outcomes for farmers and consumers.
The letter advocates additional research including â $ œgain -
of - functionâ $ experiments: identifying what changes to naturally occurring viral
strains would make them more transmissible,
deadly, or drug - resistant in mammals.
Following a
deadly 2007 outbreak
of a new
strain of Ebola virus in the Bundibugyo region
of Uganda, MUWRP developed a strong interest in creating a vaccine that cut across subtypes
of the virus.
Many existing treatments for malaria - one
of the
deadliest infectious diseases - target only one stage
of the complex life cycle
of the Plasmodium parasite that causes the disease, and are further limited by the emergence
of drug resistance in particular
strains.
Prof Ajit Lalvani from the National Heart and Lung Institute, who led the study, said: «New
strains of flu are continuously emerging, some
of which are
deadly, and so the Holy Grail is to create a universal vaccine that would be effective against all
strains of flu.»
Home scientists arguably lack the tools to stumble upon a new
strain of influenza or accidentally create a
deadly bioweapon, but they are apt to overlook fundamental laboratory safety measures that are important even when working with seemingly benign microbes.
7/16/2007 Researchers Discover Key Mechanism to Emergence
of Deadly Strep Bacteria The incidence
of serious strep infections has risen dramatically in the last three decades, and this increase is largely attributed to the spread around the globe
of a single
strain of strep known as the invasive M1T1 clone.
Young worked with fellow researchers across the country to use phage treatment to save the life
of Dr. Tom Patterson, a professor at UC San Diego School
of Medicine, who while on a trip to Egypt became infected with a multi-resistant
strain of Acinetobacter baumannii, a
deadly pathogen.