Sentences with phrase «deadly known viruses»
PULLMAN, Wash. — A team of scientists from Washington State University has discovered how one of the planet's most deadly known viruses employs burglary - ring - like teamwork to infiltrate the human cell.
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«When he left at the beginning of August, we understood there was a risk he could become sick with this deadly virus but I knew that he needed to go and be with the Liberian people who needed a hospital to be open.»
DID YOU KNOW: The Centers for Disease Control houses some of the deadliest viruses and bacteria known to mankind, and does it all in a Level 5 laboratory located «somewhere inside the Perimeter.»
Bats are hosts to the deadliest viruses we know, but far from infecting humans they may actually hold secrets to improving our health and longevity
Security experts have long warned that would - be terrorists no longer need to steal deadly pathogens when commonplace genetic engineering techniques could turn a benign microbe into a killer or synthetic biology tools might be used to build a virus from scratch.
Researchers do not know, however, if the virus that causes the next pandemic will be more or less deadly than the one in 1918.
Critics have pointed out that the same synthetic biology know - how and technologies could be used by terrorists or rogue states to engineer a bacterium that churns out a neurotoxin or, perhaps, a deadly flu virus with resistance to vaccines and antiviral medications.
Animal - nutritionist John Goihl knows Minnesota farmers who feed the remains of dead baby pigs to hogs used for breeding in attempts to ward off infections of a deadly virus in offspring.
One particular strain, Zaire ebolavirus, is one of the deadliest viruses we know and fatal in up to 90 % of cases.
Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, reported at a flu conference in Malta in September that giving H5N1 two mutations known to adapt it to mammals, then passing the modified virus repeatedly between ferrets, led to further mutations and an H5N1 that was just as deadly but spread readily in airborne droplets.
This new enemy is in cahoots with devious scientist, Dr. Alrich Killian, who is working on a deadly toxin known as the Extremis virus.
What many people may not know is that there is a related virus, phocine distemper, that can be deadly to seals and that poses a significant threat to marine mammal species around the world, and potentially to the highly endangered Hawaiian monk seal.
Following an event known as The Great Decimation that left humanity vulnerable to a deadly nanophage virus and most of the world uninhabitable what remains of society has been restructured under the watchful eyes of various mega corporations.