Sentences with phrase «deadly pandemic in»

It is considered the most deadly pandemic in modern history, infecting one third of the world's population.

They were particularly interested in the virus's molecular engineering because the 1918 «Spanish flu» was the most deadly pandemic in history, killing 20 million to 40 million worldwide.

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Should a deadly pandemic comparable to the 1918 influenza outbreak reach the US in the relatively near future, the US government would be powerless to...

By Doug Stephens Today's retailers face a tsunami of problems but none, in my opinion is more deadly than the pandemic of sheer consumer boredom that shoppers are being subjected to.

At least 12 companies and 17 governments are developing pre-pandemic influenza vaccines in 28 different clinical trials that, if successful, could turn a deadly pandemic infection into a nondeadly one.

WHEN bird flu first burst onto the world stage in 2004, virologists were quick to warn of a deadly pandemic.

Researchers do not know, however, if the virus that causes the next pandemic will be more or less deadly than the one in 1918.

They report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that genes of the 1918 virus were most likely present in swine or human hosts at least 2 and possibly 15 years before the pandemic began and combined to form the deadly virus during multiple reassortments, presumably rare events in which flu viruses exchange genes.

A handful of flu pandemics have occurred in the 20th century; the 1918 one, also called the Spanish flu, was the most deadly, killing between 20 million and 40 million people.

The plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, is one of the deadliest pathogens in human history, sparking three major pandemics: the Plague of Justinian, which struck the Roman Empire during the 6th and 8th centuries; the second plague pandemic, which first erupted in Europe in the mid-14th-century Black Death and continued to strike the continent in recurrent outbreaks until the mid-18th century; and the third plague pandemic, which emerged in China during the late 19th century.

Outbreaks of two deadly viruses captured the world's attention in 2013, but neither turned into the global pandemic expected to strike one of these years.

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After the devastation of the First World War and an especially deadly flu pandemic in 1918, people were desperate to know what happened after death.

In solution, the antibodies could block not only H5 but also eight other types of flu virus, including the one responsible for the deadly 1918 — 19 flu pandemic.

With experts predicting another deadly influenza pandemic in the future, Southern Research scientists are working on several fronts to help limit the death toll from a catastrophic flu outbreak that -LSB-...]

The film centres round Gerry Lane, an ex United Nations worker who after being reluctantly reinstated in his former post, travels across the globe in a bid to stop a deadly pandemic that looks set to wipe out human civilisation.

In Pandemic 2 you get to spread a deadly virus around the world.

February 28th, 2017 — In the world of Ubisoft's record breaking open world game, Tom Clancy's The Division, a deadly pandemic led to widespread panic, looting and destruction in New York City, causing Manhattan to be placed under quarantinIn the world of Ubisoft's record breaking open world game, Tom Clancy's The Division, a deadly pandemic led to widespread panic, looting and destruction in New York City, causing Manhattan to be placed under quarantinin New York City, causing Manhattan to be placed under quarantine.

In Virus Plague — Pandemic Madness your task is to eradicate all humanity via the deadliest virus that you evolve during the game.

Situated in an alternate history at the end of the Second World War, when Nazis managed to release a deadly virus over US territory, the game tells the story of two brothers and their intricate relation with the apocalyptic world rising in the leftovers of the Z0M81 Pandemic ravage.»