Sentences with phrase «deadly virus called»

Most of these raccoons are suffering from a very deadly virus called distemper.

It seems Ambrose wants to get his hands on a deadly virus called Chimera, which has the capability of killing anyone it comes in contact with in over 20 hours, and to which there is only one antidote.

Bacteria are vulnerable to deadly viruses called phages, which can hijack bacteria's genetic machinery and force them to produce viral DNA instead.

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Some have called for mandatory quarantines or monitoring of any health workers who've been exposed to the deadly virus, Democratic Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn among them.

Genetic mutations called «escape variants» in the deadly Ebola virus appear to block the ability of antibody - based treatments to ward off infection, according to a team of U.S. Army scientists and collaborators.

After the deadly virus struck in 2002, disease researchers traced it to raccoonlike animals called Himalayan palm civets, which are sold for food in live - animal markets in China.

The viruses that cause FMD (members of a diverse family of small RNA viruses called picornaviruses) are not all that deadly; they can cause fatal cardiac arrest in young animals, but most adult animals recover.

But patch in a gene called PB2 from the deadly virus, and «the outcome is dramatic,» says Kawaoka.

Artist Anicka Yi's You Can Call Me F takes our obsession with feminine cleanliness to a science - fiction extreme: Women have been reimagined as a «virus,» as a deadly problem.

In a recent development, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was forced to admit that a patented liquid silver solution called Axen30TM when used as a surface disinfectant had the ability to kill multiple strains of MRSA plus additional deadly pathogens such as Avian Influenza A (Bird Flu), Human Corona virus (SARS), Feline Calicivirus (Norovirus), Rotavirus, Campylobacter jjejuni and Acinetobacter baumannii.