Sentences with phrase «first infected humans»

Cholera first infected humans in the early 19th century in Bengal, a region that straddles what is now the border between Bangladesh and India, and the bacterial disease still sweeps through the area regularly.

The work began, according to Balloux, when the pair decided to combine their data sets on human populations and pathogens to see if they could determine «when Helicobacter pylori first infected humans and [if this could] shed light on when and how anatomically modern humans colonized the world.»

Not exact matches

Some crop — and even human — diseases might be stopped dead in their tracks if researchers can harness a new discovery about how pathogens first infect their hosts

An Australian research team, however, recently reached a milestone when it became the first to screen and catalogue all of the genes activated by a BSL4 pathogen when it infects human cells.

In the study, Suarez and his collaborators first infected seven species of poultry with a human isolate of the Chinese H7N9 virus.

First offense: Identified in pigs in 2010, H3N2v began infecting humans in the American Midwest a year later.

Pregnant mice were infected with Zika virus early in pregnancy (corresponding to mid — first trimester in humans).

For the first time, scientists have discovered a pig retrovirus that infects human cells.

It's very unlikely that she was infected by a bite by a mosquito that first bit her husband; the three tropical Aedes mosquito species known to transmit Zika don't live in northern Colorado, and moreover, the virus has to complete a 2 - week life cycle within the insect before it can infect the next human; Foy's wife fell ill just 9 days after his return.

Pregnant mice were infected vaginally with Zika at one of two times — one corresponding to mid first trimester in humans, the other to late first trimester.

In a study published in PLOS ONE today, a team of researchers led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine show for the first time that female mosquitoes infected with malaria parasites are significantly more attracted to human odour than uninfected mosquitoes.

Twenty - six - year - old nurse Nina Pham is the first person to catch Ebola from an infected human on U.S. soil.

Question: And is this the first known case in the world of the countries that are experiencing outbreak of human swine influenza where you've seen the flu infect a pig?

This is the first report of the virus in birds, although pig herds in several countries have been infected, presumably by human - to - swine transmission.

As these were the first pigs ever found to harbor the virus, this obviously raises the possibility that they infected humans and played a role in the origin of the outbreak.

Researchers have developed the first real - time system to watch directly through the microscope as Ebola - like virus particles fuse with human cells to infect them.

So far there have been no reports of Parkinson's disease in human survivors of the H5N1 flu, Smeyne says, but because only a few years have passed since the first cases were reported, it's too early to know whether those infected are at increased risk.

In the current study, Vanderbilt researchers led by graduate student Andrew Flyak, the paper's first author, used a high - efficiency method they developed to quickly isolate and generate large quantities of monoclonal human antibodies from the blood of survivors of a 2007 outbreak in Uganda who were infected by the Bundibugyo ebolavirus.

Body count: Since claiming its first known human victim in 2012, MERS - CoV has infected more than 144 people, mostly in Saudi Arabia, killing 62.

Doctors in France have found the first evidence that a cancer drug may be able to eradicate HIV - infected cells in humans.

When Peter Parham's postdoc first showed him data suggesting a gene in some wild chimpanzees infected with the AIDS virus closely resembled one that protects humans from HIV, he was skeptical.

Adenoviruses, first isolated in the 1950s from explanted adenoid tissue, are double - stranded nonenveloped DNA viruses that naturally infect many vertebrates, including humans and nonhuman primates.

Results: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers and collaborators have shown for the first time that human noroviruses can infect and replicate in a three - dimensional model of human small intestinal tissue.

This team plans to conduct the first human clinical trial combining these two therapeutic strategies (which have been tested separately and have shown activity in reducing HIV in humans), with the expectation that a boosted innate immune system empowered with unique antibodies to target HIV - infected cells will achieve greater reductions in HIV than observe previously.

Concord, NH — The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is announcing the first confirmed case of a New Hampshire resident infected with Zika virus.

Guido Silvestri, MD, division chief of Microbiology and Immunology at the Yerkes Research Center at Emory, and several of his research colleagues performed the first hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in three rhesus macaques infected with a simian human immunodeficiency virus (SHIV).

Shortly afterwards, that outbreak hits home when — during a traffic jam with his family — he sees the first signs of the virus when he watches a group of infected humans attack people on the streets of Philadelphia.

First a new strain of avian influenza was reported to have infected humans.

Created by Ubisoft, ZombiU is a survival - horror, first - person shooter game that puts players in the shoes of a human survivor in the middle of a terrifying plague that has infected modern - day London and turned everyone into flesh - eating zombies.

The first is referred to as the Great Wave and was an inexplicable chain of natural disasters, and the second is a pandemic that turned humans into «the dissolved» — infected beings with special cognitive powers whose bodies will eventually dissolve into blood.

«In this case of first impression, the majority holds that a wife who sues her husband claiming that he negligently infected her with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is not limited to a theory that he did so knowing he was HIV positive but that liability also extends «to those situations where the actor, under the totality of circumstances, has reason to know of the infection.»»

Swine flu first proposed to be a disease related to human influenza during the 1918 flu pandemic, known as Spanish flu, it infected about 500 million resulting in 50 million deaths.