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* The first known virus isolates from Antarctic sea ice have complex infection patterns — Anne - Mari Luhtanen — FEMS Microbiology Ecology

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-- ZIKA: Florida public health investigators have identified 10 additional Zika cases in the Miami area, bringing the total to 14 in the first known outbreak of the virus to be caused by mosquitoes in the continental U.S., Florida Gov. Rick Scott said Monday.

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The Elk Cloner virus, one of the first viruses known to spread in the wild, infected the boot sector of Apple II floppies.

This is the first structure of any helicase bound to ATP from flaviviruses, a group including other well - known pathogens such as dengue, yellow fever, and West Nile viruses.

The virus - transmission prevention tasks included pregnant mothers knowing their own HIV status and asking their sexual partners to be tested; mothers taking anti-retroviral drugs for the six weeks prior to childbirth and during labor; babies receiving anti-retroviral drugs for at least six weeks, until they can be tested for the virus; and mothers using one feeding method (breastfeeding or formula) for the first 6 months of their infants» life, and, when possible, exclusively breastfeeding.

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.

The first cases were reported in the United States in March 2009 but the new virus spread rapidly to other countries and in June 2009 the WHO declared a pandemic caused by this strain, known as influenza A (H1N1) pdm09, or «swine flu».

So H1N1 in itself is a, you know, broad category of viruses that circulate in humans, even now; they are not as fearsome as the original strain when it first emerged.

ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS MIKOVITS DID was to employ a microarray — a small tray seeded with DNA from nearly every known virus — to flag viral DNA in human white blood cells.

The first viruses of this family were discovered in a place known as Bunyamwera in Uganda, from which they derive their name.

«We were surprised because it's the first known example of any virus that has captured and commandeered [an] immune system,» says Camilli.

Bacteriologist Bernard La Scola first identified Mimivirus, the largest known virus, in 2003.

The team is the first to demonstrate that HIV - 1 replication can be completely shut down and the virus eliminated from infected cells in animals with a powerful gene editing technology known as CRISPR / Cas9.

Stivers knew that depleting nucleotides by breaking them down into pieces that quickly leave the cell is precisely the job of SAMHD1, a protein recently discovered in humans but thought to have first evolved in bacteria as a defense against viruses.

Women were also excluded from the analysis if the first prenatal visit was after 20 weeks gestation or if the mother self - reported diabetes, hypertension, known human immunodeficiency virus status, or use of illicit drugs or cigarettes during pregnancy.

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Thirty - one years ago, Gould and Vrba suggested that repetitive DNA sequences known as transposons, which originated from viruses, might serve no direct function at first, but may be used to great advantage later on.

Nipah, named after the town where the first known victim lived, closely resembles the Hendra virus, which killed two people and 11 horses in Australia 6 years ago.

No one knows the natural course of the disease over a human lifetime, or how the virus spread around the world in the first place.

Some of the first genes to start expressing themselves again are former viruses turned into transposable elements known as human endogenous retroviruses, particularly one called HERVK, Wysocka and colleagues found.

If the virus is confirmed to be H5N1, they would be the first known cases of the strain in a European Union country.

1965 — The Epstein - Barr virus, which causes mononucleosis, is found in the cancerous lymph node cells of children with Burkitt's lymphoma, making it the first known human cancer virus.

They have also proposed the first mechanism for how prostate cancer might arise from the mutations in the gene, which is best known for defending cells against viruses.

Scientists know the virus has a limited ability to spread from person to person, but they aren't sure about the path it took to reach its first human victims.

HIV, which is thought to have first emerged in humans in the 1930s, is another kind of virus, known as a retrovirus.

Scientists already knew that bacteria could contaminate utensils in this way, but the new study is the first to look at hepatitis A virus and norovirus, the most common cause of foodborne illness in the United States.

Two weeks later, he died from multiple organ failure, becoming the first victim of a mysterious virus that came to be known as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome or MERS.

The first known human cases of the Heartland virus were two farmers in northwestern Missouri.

Claverie and Abergel have helped to discover other so - called giant viruses — including the first, called Mimivirus, in 2003, and two others, known as Pandoraviruses, last year (see «Giant viruses open Pandora's box»).

«Much of what we know about Zika virus was described in the first few reports about the virus in 1952,» explained Melanie Ott, MD, PhD, a senior investigator at Gladstone, who led the briefing.

By December, 1994, Don Ganem knew his team would not be the first to identify a new virus behind a puzzling cancer in gay men.Scientists at Columbia University had recently pulled pieces of viral...

Ebola virus has been known to cause meningitis like symptoms in some patients when they are first infected with the virus.

For the first time, scientists know what happens to a virus» shape when it invades a host cell, thanks to an experiment by researchers at Penn State College of Medicine and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

• Patients must have adequate coagulation (international normalized ratio (INR) or prothrombin time (PT), partial thromboplastin time (PTT) ≤ 1.5 times ULN) • Adequate liver function (total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 times the ULN, alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≤ 2.5 times ULN Exclusion Criteria: • Presence of active / uncontrolled central nervous system involvement • History of clinically significant cardiac disease; uncontrolled hypertension • Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) < 45 % • Allogeneic stem cell transplant within 100 days before first dose of study drug • Known history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection • Chronic or active hepatitis B or C, requiring antiviral therapy • Evidence of history of bleeding disorder, dialysis, or coexisting cancer that is distinct in primary site or histology from the cancer evaluated in this study • Serious, uncontrolled infection • Unresolved chronic toxicity > grade 1 from prior therapy • Use of strong CYP3A4 inhibitors or strong inducers within 7 days prior to the start of study treatment and for the duration of the study

«It's been known for a while that Zika virus in men can find its way into the reproductive organs and may then go on to be sexually transmitted, but this study in mice is the first suggestion that this passage through the reproductive tract may actually be damaging.

These are the first known cases of individuals catching the virus from their pets in Canada or the U.S.

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».

If you work on vaccines you know the story of British physician Edward Jenner, whose observation that dairymaids infected with cowpox made them resistant to the far more virulent smallpox virus led him to develop, in 1796, the first experimental vaccine.

Did you know that 99 individual virus samples were sequenced in the first two weeks of the Ebola epidemic?

Zika is the first mosquito - borne virus known to cause severe birth defects, most of them brain - related.

Depending on whether the sore throat is caused by a virus or bacterial infection, how to know which one (s) to try first?

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They are heavily armed and willing to shoot first and not even bother with questions, knowing that hesitation on their part could lead to a painful, gruesome death that has spread like a virus all around the globe.

Since the virus, known as H3N8, was first identified in 2004, thousands of dogs in 38 states have become sick with the flu, and veterinarians say that number continues to climb.

H3N8 was the first influenza virus known to affect dogs.

Intervet / Schering - Plough Animal Health said this week its canine influenza vaccine is the first approved to protect dogs from the contagious respiratory illness known as the H3N8 flu virus, which was first recognized in 2004 after an outbreak among Florida greyhounds.

We were devastated to know that she already had the virus when we first got her home.

MADISON, N.J. --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Merck Animal Health, known as MSD Animal Health outside of the United States and Canada, today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved a license for Nobivac ® Canine Flu Bivalent vaccine — the first vaccine to aid in the control of disease associated with both canine influenza virus (CIV) H3N2 and canine influenza virus H3N8.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is partnering with veterinary universities to conduct the first immunotherapy study for brain tumors in dogs using an oncolytic herpes simplex virus known as M032.