Sentences with phrase «fact human viruses»

Dr. Butler - Jones: Certainly, two things about that I guess, firstly as it's been said, we do see from time to time and this is something that people would not know that in fact human viruses can be spread to pig.

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The event will feature medical, public health and human rights experts looking to offer an open and honest conversation about the effects of the virus in Africa and the current climate in our own communities, while providing facts about Ebola that can save lives.

The 2009 strain of H1N1 is, in fact, a hodgepodge of swine, human and avian strains of the virus.

The second challenge to researching viral therapies for childhood cancers is the fact that mouse cells don't get infected with human viruses as easily as human cells.

And Alisa «Harley» Newton, a pathologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society, discusses how vets figured out that a pathogen attacking humans was in fact West Nile Virus.

«However, the fact that the emerging H7N9 virus has caused infection mainly in individual human cases suggests that it has not acquired all the necessary properties for efficient transmission among humans,» notes Dr. Kuiken.

And of particular concern is the fact that pig cells are uniquely receptive to influenza viruses from swine, humans, and birds, making swine a dangerous «mixing vessel» for new variants.

With a human strain showing widespread resistance as well — and the fact that pandemic viruses may arise when avian and human strains swap genes — makes it even less appealing, says Bright.

Walford's new research is based on the fact that in mice and humans, the immune system malfunctions during aging, losing the ability to distinguish between healthy cells and invasive pathogens such as bacteria and viruses.

In fact, plenty of «our» DNA has foreign origins — from extinct early humans to viruses — and can have both good and bad effects on health.

The fact that some viruses that infect humans share structural features with viruses that infect bacteria could mean that all of these viruses have a common origin, dating back several billion years.

The fact that this human H1 virus was introduced into swine on two separate occasions (H1N1 and H1N2) allows, uniquely, a side - by - side comparison of the spatial dynamics of two similar emergent viruses.

We can't predict which virus species will slip into eggs and sperm and provide us with the next piece of the human genome, but here is one fact that's pretty unsettling to ponder: If you put a koala retrovirus in a dish with human cells, it can easily infect them.

Today's Cool Fact of the Day is that it's now possible for plants to be engineered with genes that are taken from bacteria, viruses, insects, animals or even humans.

It delves into what would happen when humans succumb to their basest instincts, or as Freud would say, our Ids, and in a poignant series of events, also explores the fact that the ability to be infused with a rage is inherent in every human, whether infected with a virus or not.

Most importantly it has been noted that the surgical instruments used during the FGM procedure are not sterilized, a fact that can cause serious and sometimes even fatal infections and diseases such as septicemia and HIV (human immunodeficiency virus)(Alston, et al, 2007 p. 547).

Vaccinations against various known diseases and viruses are a pretty common fact of life for both humans as well as their canine companions.

There are many factors — known and unknown — that contribute to dental disease cats such as genetics, viruses, diet, and the fact that cats do not brush their teeth like humans do.

The canine distemper virus is closely related to the human measles virus and, in fact, in older times, puppies were immunized for distemper with vaccine against measles.

Unfortunately, like many other natural disasters, a flu pandemic is impossible to accurately predict although there are some warning signs we can all pay attention to — including the fact that the WHO and others are closely watching the H5N1 flu virus strain for its potential to mutate into a human - to - human transmissible disease.