Sentences with phrase «deadly than the virus»

The dehydration is often more deadly than the virus itself.

Not exact matches

The deadly Ebola virus spread throughout West Africa from 2014 to 2016, killing more than 11,000 people and drawing numerous aid workers and medical professionals to the continent.

After infecting 16 monkeys with a virus similar to (but even more deadly than) HIV, the doctors used a specially modified version of another virus to spread and spur the body's immune system.

He noted that deer ticks are linked to Powassan virus, which is deadlier than Lyme.

But the governor says New Yorkers» anxiety level is higher than the probability of the deadly virus arriving here.

Instead, they die at far faster rates than normal as a host of other ailments, such as deformed wing virus and deadly pathogens, exact a toll.

The 1917 virus had infection and mortality rates typical of seasonal flu, but a single mutation in the proteins affecting how the virus binds to a host cell may have led to the deadly 1918 wave, which killed more than 50 million people worldwide.

RNA interference, an immune defense first discovered in plants more than a decade ago, may become a powerful new weapon against SARS and other deadly viruses.

In both cell cultures and mice, these mineralized viruses proved to be significantly more infectious — and deadly — than the native viruses.

More than half of all outbreaks of Ebola Zaire, the deadliest variety of Ebola virus, have occurred here or in the neighboring DRC.

Scientists are developing antibodies for a test that can sniff out the deadly virus more quickly and efficiently than current tests, researchers reported February 6 at the American Society for Microbiology Biothreats meeting.

If there have been a large number of such cases, it would mean the virus is less deadly than it might appear — but also more widespread in the community, and therefore possibly more transmissible than we realise.

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

According to CDC official Phillip Nieburg, the Thai data show that HIV - positive pregnant women who got a daily dose of AZT for just 3 to 4 weeks before giving birth were far less likely to transmit the deadly virus to their child than were those who received no drug.

Although the virus didn't prove deadly, or even all that serious, to the humans it infected, the new findings suggest there may be more pathogens than previously thought with species - jumping potential.

WINTER HAVEN — For the second time in less than a year, the deadly and highly contagious feline panleukopenia virus plagues the Polk County Animal Shelter.

The non-vaccinated puppies, while still having non-mature immune systems were still stronger than the vaccinated puppies and far better equipped to fight off a deadly virus and win.