Sentences with phrase «for becoming infected»

Canine influenza is highly contagious, so visiting places where dogs socialize or congregate, such as doggie day cares, dog parks, boarding facilities and urban locations, places dogs at higher risk for becoming infected.

Gun shot and pellet wounds are at risk for becoming infected.

People who already have chronic hepatitis B are at risk for becoming infected with a second virus, hepatitis D, also called delta hepatitis.

Not exact matches

Leaders must place team members in an organized, dynamic environment where they can become infected with enthusiasm for carrying out the goals at hand.

The inspiration for the social - media campaign came from the recent WHO HIV / AIDS recommendations that stated that «patients should be put on an antiretroviral therapy of three drugs immediately after diagnosis» and «everyone at risk of becoming infected should be offered protective doses of similar drugs.»

in the 80's a lot of people became infected and i mean a lot due to the medical profession not knowing how to test for this illness, thus anyone could become infected due to recieveing contaminated blood during a transfusion.

Varlamov was in net for a 20th straight game as backup Jonathan Bernier was sidelined by a cut that became infected.

The main risk for birth defects (in Zika's case) is becoming infected while pregnant.

You can't always avoid getting sick but Vitamin C makes it little harder for our babies small bodies to become infected.

If the nipple is open after 5 days, it may then be time for an antibiotic as bites can easily become infected and then not only are they slow to heal, but you can also develop mastitis.

This causes many infants to become infected with bacterial diseases, the most feared of which is diarrhoea, which yearly leads to dehydration and death for thousands of infants.

However, while the transmission rate is higher in late pregnancy, toxoplasmosis is more likely to be severe for your baby if he becomes infected in the first trimester.

Many parents are now concerned that their baby will be harmed if the mother becomes infected or if the father is infected as it can live in the sperm for up to 60 days studies have shown.

The umbilical stump needs to be properly cared for, otherwise it can become infected.

While rare, it's possible for the stump to become infected and bleed.

While we personally do not recommend or advocate for getting the flu shot, some doctors will recommend it and tell you that it could help prevent your child from becoming infected.

They include proposals for expanding public benefits, housing, and healthcare for people with HIV, using anti-HIV drugs to prevent people from becoming infected, and improving the use of data and monitoring to measure the success of the plan.

Outlined in the governor's 2016 policy book are new laws would eliminate the parental consent requirement for HIV - positive teens in need of treatment and for at - risk teens who want to get on Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, or PrEP — a medication that protects HIV - negative people from becoming infected.

For those who are sexually active, more than 90 percent of men and 80 percent of women can expect to become infected with at least one type of HPV during their lives.

Specifically, 74 people who had received the placebo became infected with HIV in the trial period, compared with the 51 people who became infected after receiving the vaccine, which makes for a protective effect of 31.2 percent.

The risk of unprotected exposure to vaccine - preventable diseases is far higher: for example, more than 90 percent of unvaccinated people exposed to measles will become infected.

While combining data from many studies improves statistical power, the researchers note that the associations between hormonal contraception and risk of becoming infected with HIV were attenuated for studies at lower risk of methodological bias compared to those at higher risk of bias, suggesting that some of the risk found to be associated with hormonal contraception may be due to bias in the original studies.

When controlling for other factors that affect risk of HIV infection (e.g., condom use), the researchers found that users of injectable DMPA were 50 % more likely to become infected with HIV than those not using hormonal contraceptives.

Prion specialist Moira Bruce of the Institute for Animal Health's Neuropathogenesis Unit in Edinburgh says that sheep experimentally infected with BSE become ill about as fast as sheep naturally infected with scrapie.

The mutations effectively lower the threshold for what it takes for a mosquito to become infected with chikungunya, replicate the virus in its body and pass it on to humans with its bite.

The virus is spread by respiratory droplets that can linger in the air for hours; virtually any unvaccinated person who comes in contact with it will become infected.

After a person becomes infected, early symptoms — fever, a swollen eye — may be mistaken for any number of other ailments.

We don't know how the bone became infected, but we can be sure that it caused the animal great pain for years and probably made its left forelimb useless for walking,» explains Mallon.

The microbe may rarely infect people, but when it does, it may kill the human host, who becomes a literal dead end for the virus as well.

So, it's not an issue of her possibly becoming infected by these parasites, but because there is usually a genetic basis [for] parasite resistance, she may be looking for good genes for her offspring to survive better.

As Zika becomes more widespread, the risk grows that an American traveler could bring it back to the U.S. and fuel a local outbreak or even — although much less likely — that infected mosquitoes may make their way overland to the U.S.. For his part, the infected tourist likens his experience with Zika to a «tough flu that kicks your ass, makes your muscles sore and Advil barely made a dent.»

He says that it is even possible for a virtual computer in the cloud to become infected by an ordinary botnet, because cloud users don't normally run anti-virus software.

The issue has become a lightning rod for debate because the only thing standing between H5N1 bird flu, which infects birds in half a dozen countries in Asia and in Egypt, and a nasty pandemic is that the virus is hard for humans to catch.

A small percentage of people who do become infected never seem to suffer any harm, and others hold the virus at bay for a decade or more before showing damage to their immune systems.

And for every 10 people who do receive ARVs, 16 become newly infected.

According to a recent article in The Lancet, «virtually all published analyses that have compared the cost of screening of patients on admission and using contact precautions with colonized patients» show that «the costs of caring for patients who become infected with MRSA are much greater than the costs of screening programs.»

A 2004 study asked where Mexicans who migrated to California for seasonal farm work became infected with HIV.

Individuals such as Roy Cornes, a haemophiliac living in Birmingham, have been accused of infecting several sexual partners in a short time, yet it is equally possible for people to be exposed thousands of times to the virus without becoming infected, whether through gay or straight sex.

For a long time, the prevailing idea was that parasites and pathogens evolve to target a particular host and as they get better at infecting a specific animal or plant, they become less effective at infecting other organisms.

Not only would this minimise the chance of becoming infected themselves, but choosing a healthy, disease - resistant partner would also be advantageous for their offspring,» first author Zala explains.

It can take only a month for a tiny infected foot sore to become gangrenous, which can mean amputation.

This work defines an element, often missing from health policy discussions, in improving outcomes for this important population and underscores the importance of social factors in affecting health outcomes both for people at risk of becoming infected with HIV and for those living with HIV or AIDS, said the researchers.

The World Health Organization in 2015 recommended PrEP for everyone at «substantial risk» of becoming infected — a total of tens of millions of people, to judge from the nearly 2 million new HIV infections in 2016.

Garrido was not found for 3 days and the open fractures became infected.

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.

In 2002, in Munich, a technician who had been working with a genetically modified version of the Vaccinia virus for many years became infected.

And while these ants can certainly provide an unpleasant encounter for any unwitting humans who come across them — their en masse bites inject their victims with venom that produces a burning sensation and raises blisters that can become infected — they are actually more of a threat to local wildlife.

The fact that this bacterium is found in cattle means that these animals can be a reservoir for human tuberculosis and that humans can become infected with both M. bovis and M. tuberculosis by drinking unpasteurised milk and eating meat that has not been properly tested.

Take, for example, the definition of bacteriophage: «any virus that infects and replicates within a bacterium, producing transmissible lysis or becoming lysogenic; usually species - specific».

For instance, in a trial where herpes patients took acyclovir to prevent their partners from becoming infected, the drug was only 50 % effective.