As the fast - moving epidemic grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads
faster than the virus itself.
Not exact matches
CYBER villains are writing
virus code
faster than vendors can update their signature or DAT file, says Wave IT managing director Rob McDowell.
They're innocuous, they gather pace and life of their own
faster than Cyrus the
Virus would infect it.
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.
There is only a preliminary form of a vaccine against H5N1 flu strains, and even if there were a developed vaccine, the
virus might spread
faster than public - health officials could get people inoculated.
Viruses therefore surely have effects that are
faster and more direct
than those of external forces that simply select among more slowly generated, internal genetic variations.
During the current outbreak in West Africa, Ebola
virus has not mutated
faster than historically observed.
«The
virus is moving
faster than anyone anticipated,» Frieden said.
Such a surge of funds and resources — higher
than earlier estimates — seems unlikely to materialize
fast enough to contain this
virus even as new cases erupt in west Africa.
It seems that somehow the
virus can actually spread against ocean currents and can travel
faster than pilchards can swim, says Michael Hine, a marine pathologist at the New Zealand National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research.
Pandemic flu occurs when flu strains from different species — birds and humans, or humans and pigs — genetically mix to make a new
virus that spreads
faster and makes people sicker
than either strain alone.
Although the first people affected by the epidemic were white gay men, today the
virus is spreading
fastest through the black population, and more women are infected
than men.
Now, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine report that a novel laboratory tool that lets them find
virus mutations
faster and more efficiently
than ever before has identified a biological mechanism that appears to play a big role in helping HCV evade both the natural immune system and vaccines.
If the
virus now found in the Americas and Caribbean moves into the bugs» spit
faster than other strains do, it could fuel a larger,
faster - moving outbreak in humans — and favor the inside version in the inside / outside hypotheses duel.
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.
The team used a new approach to gene sequencing that enabled them to completely reconstruct the
virus» previously unknown genome in less
than 24 hours — significantly
faster than conventional sequencing techniques, which can take days to weeks.
He notes that the new study is especially relevant because it worked in mammalian cells, which ultimately are a better way to grow the
virus than eggs: It's a
faster production system and avoids mutations that occur when the
virus adapts to chicken eggs, which can compromise vaccine effectiveness.
When the birds weren't vaccinated, infection with highly virulent strains killed them so
fast that they shed very little
virus — orders of magnitude less
than when they were infected with less virulent strains.
In other words, Wolbachia infection allowed the mosquitoes to become infected with West Nile
virus faster than our controls.»
«We have to get to these children, these newborns, with vaccine
faster than the wild
virus can get to them.
While looking carefully at the areas of cell destruction induced by the
viruses — called plaques — he and colleagues noticed that vaccinia spread four times
faster than its replication cycle would allow.
But scientists predict that the avian - flu
virus could someday give rise to a
fast - spreading strain against which people would have less immunity
than they do to a typical winter flu.
This piggyback - the - winner model better explains
virus - host dynamics during periods of
fast microbial growth
than the established kill - the - winner model, the researchers said.
However, if it is joined in the cell by another influenza
virus, it retains its harmless nature but starts to reproduce - and at a much
faster rate
than the new influenza
virus.
Rabies is a
fast - moving
virus that must be treated sooner rather
than later or your dog will die.
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