Sentences with phrase «disease than virus»

As the number of cases of the paralytic disease fall, world health officials have to grapple with a vexing problem: a component of the most widely used polio vaccine now causes more disease than the virus it is supposed to fight

Among mice that had antibodies, i.e., during antibody - enhanced infection, the researchers found that the addition of saliva extract caused more severe disease than virus alone.

Not exact matches

«It's very important that the public is very aware that these are more than summertime nuisances — you can get very severe diseases from ticks and mosquitoes,» Petersen, who had West Nile virus from a mosquito bite in 2003, told CNN.

The tick virus that could be worse than Lyme disease.

The challenge is urgent because more than 31,000 people in the United States have already been diagnosed with this fatal disease — half of whom have already died, leaving families, friends and loved ones who need care — and because at least 1.5 million Americans are thought to be carrying the rapidly spreading virus.

Today the two horrors are becoming antibiotic - resistant, and AIDS, herpes, chlamydia, genital warts, human papilloma virus, and more than a dozen other sexually transmitted diseases, most of them formerly rare, are ravaging the population.

Unsafe food containing harmful bacteria, viruses, parasites, or chemical substances causes more than 200 diseases

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The outbreak has seen some countries urging couples not to get pregnant, while the US Centers for Disease Control has warned pregnant women to avoid travelling to 22 affected nations, including Brazil which has reported more than 4000 cases of the virus since October 2015.

In practice, doctors prescribe an antibiotic to more than 70 percent of all adults with a sore throat, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), even though almost all throat infections are caused by viruses, for which antibiotics are useless.

«We found that in each of the regions we could analyze, Zika virus circulated undetected for many months, up to a year or longer, before the first locally transmitted cases were reported,» says Bronwyn MacInnis, an infectious disease geneticist at the Broad Institute, in Cambridge, Mass. «This means the outbreak in these regions was under way much earlier than previously thought.»

The study, the culmination of more than 10 years of research and published online in the journal Arthritis & Rheumatology in June, discovered virus - like elements within the human genome linked to the development of two autoimmune diseases: lupus and Sjogren's syndrome.

At time of writing, the virus had not become more severe, causing mild disease in most sufferers but making a small number — probably less than 1 per cent — extremely ill.

The former target, say, using gene editing techniques to inactivate HIV receptors and achieve resistance of blood cells to the virus (which Sangamo BioSciences is working on in clincial trials) is different than helping parents who both carry genes for Huntington's Disease to have a child that is free of the disease (a change to the genome that would be passed on to future generations and would likely not be very commonly nDisease to have a child that is free of the disease (a change to the genome that would be passed on to future generations and would likely not be very commonly ndisease (a change to the genome that would be passed on to future generations and would likely not be very commonly needed).

More than 80 per cent accepted the need for a modified myxoma virus, but they were more wary of deliberately releasing rabbit calicivirus, a disease which kills the animals overseas.

Furthermore, they suggest that the public would be better off spending time and energy battling mosquitoes, which pose a more severe threat to human health than the spiders do because of their ability to transmit viruses such as Chikungunya and pathogens that cause diseases.

The novel H1N1 virus accounts for more than 99 % of the isolates subtyped since 30 August in the United States, Nancy Cox, head of the influenza division at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told ScienceInsider in an e-mail 10 days ago.

Jacobson now manages projects that prevent neglected tropical diseases like Japanese encephalitis at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which in 2003 donated more than $ 35 million to the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) to fight the virus.

According to the commentary, «the unfolding story of Zika virus in the Americas is much more than a mosquito - borne disease that may affect fetal development.

Furthermore, more than 75 % of mice infected with virus bearing the normal protein developed severe corneal autoimmune disease, whereas fewer than 20 % of mice infected with mutant virus did, and their symptoms were barely detectable.

Yet the researchers found that most strains caused milder versions of the disease than the original virus.

The disease has also been confirmed to cause microcephaly in more than 2,700 infants born to women infected with the virus while pregnant.

Health care officials and aid workers attempting to trace the progression of the Ebola virus disease outbreak that has claimed more than 2,800 lives so far (pdf) have come to rely heavily on a handful of disease - monitoring Web sites that act as pivotal hubs for processing information.

More than one - half of the HIV - infected young people in the United States have never received a test for the virus, according to a study released today by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

«Despite having good treatments available, current reports suggest that fewer than half of individuals who need therapy are actually getting appropriate HIV medicine to control their virus, leading to more transmission of disease,» says lead study author Maunank Shah, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

With the pandemic virus showing «widespread activity» in 47 states — six more than a week ago — the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now concedes that many people will become infected before they have a chance to get the shot.

The agent belongs to the coronavirus group, which includes several common cold viruses but also the virus that causes SARS, a severe disease that killed more than 700 people during a fast - moving global outbreak in 2002 and 2003 before it was contained.

In response to growing criticism about the lack of access to influenza data, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, on 22 August made public the sequence of more than 650 genes from flu viruses isolated in the United States.

More than half of the new infectious diseases that plague humanity — including avian influenza, West Nile virus, SARS, and even Ebola — originated from animals.

Under the most conservative infection scenario, populations of 25 tigers were 1.65 times more likely to go extinct within the next 50 years if canine distemper virus arrived than if the disease never infected a cat.

In the study, mice given a lethal dose of dengue virus less than a week after receiving the protective DMAb were completely protected from lethal disease — significantly more rapid than vaccine - driven protection, which can take weeks to months to reach peak efficacy levels.

In the early 1980s, scientists found that patients suffering from schizophrenia and manic depression were up to 10 times more likely to have antibodies to the virus than healthy people, suggesting that infection might contribute to those diseases.

Bethesda, Md. (January 24, 2018)-- A review of more than 80 studies reveals that changes in the immune cells of people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection may increase their risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD).

There are currently more than 200 zoonotic diseases caused by viruses, parasites, bacteria, and fungi that are directly or indirectly transferred by animals to humans.

«The US Military has partnered with the African scientific and general community for more than 40 years,» according to MHRP director Col. Nelson Michael, M.D., Ph.D. «We have worked on the ground for decades with host nations to build sustainable infrastructure to support infectious diseases research in areas such as HIV, malaria, dengue virus and Ebola.

If Sierra Leone is declared free of transmission of the Ebola virus it would leave just one country with the disease — Guinea — after an epidemic that has killed more than 11,200 people since late 2013.

It has been more than a century since scientists discovered the first virus, and for decades it was known simply as a «very small disease - causing agent».

Virus genome analysis has played a bigger role in understanding the West African Ebola epidemic than for any other infectious disease outbreak for two reasons: modern advances in sequencing technologies and scientists who were unusually willing to share data.

Here, we report experiments with Marek's disease virus (MDV), a highly contagious oncogenic herpesvirus that costs the global poultry industry more than $ US2 billion annually [15].

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that more than 1 million Americans have human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

Specifically, immune system CD4 and CD8 T - cells — which target viruses — had more disease - fighting capability «after multiple annual vaccinations» than those in people who didn't get the yearly flu shot, the investigators found.

Most of us are slightly more acidic than we should be, which makes us more vulnerable to viruses and bacterial infection, as well as prone to more serious conditions like cancer and auto - immune disease.

By trying to be as alkaline as possible we are setting up an environment for our cells to thrive and our bodies to work on daily maintenance rather than constantly fighting disease, viruses, and foreign invaders.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than half of the US population carries the oral herpes virus (HSV - 1), and.

It is supposed to be 1951 or»52 at this point in the book, and it wasn't until 1958 that this sexually - transmitted disease (which is now a silent epidemic in the USA) was discovered to be a bacteria rather than a virus; it also was not until a couple of decades after that when women's magazines began to warn about this possibly asymptomatic STD.

They differ to conventional vaccines in that they are usually manufactured from the products of diseases rather than from a culture of the disease agent or virus itself (as in many conventional vaccines.)

Autoimmune disease means that a dog's immune system has incorrectly identified some substance in the body as a foreign intruder, and is creating antibodies directed against the dog itself (autoantibodies), rather than the bacteria, viruses, etc. against which they should be directed.

So rather than experiencing frank viral diseases such as the «flu, measles, mumps and rubella (and, in the case of dogs, parvovirus and distemper), we are allowing the viruses to win anyway — but with cancer, leukaemia and other inflammatory or autoimmune (self - attacking) diseases taking their place.

When a puppy under 3 - 4 weeks of age becomes infected with this virus, the disease takes an entirely different course than it does in an older dog.

A cat of any age may be at risk from this contagious virus disease but young kittens are more susceptible than older cats.