Sentences with phrase «human cases»

But the proposed model does provide a framework with which to work off of when comparing it to human cases of the disease.

The truth is, despite the feline's connection to this parasite, family pets are likely not the cause of this disease in human cases.

The report notes that the virus has spread geographically, with 23 counties in seven eastern Chinese provinces reporting their first human cases last fall.

The majority of recently reported human cases are associated with exposure to infected live poultry or contaminated environments, including markets where live poultry are sold.

Several years earlier, only a few human cases had been reported.

Many of those countries took those positions in advance of having found human cases themselves.

Three - dimensional models based on real human cases like these allow hands - on experience for surgeons in training.

Researchers isolated the virus from a fatal human case and tested it and two genetically modified versions in ferrets, which are susceptible to both human and bird flu viruses.

Few human cases have been confirmed to originate from a dog.

Most human cases of Salmonella infection cause fever, diarrhea, and cramping that go away on their own, but in children it can produce more severe disease.

«We have not had a confirmed human case of West Nile Virus («WNV») in Erie County since October 2012,» said Erie County Health Commissioner Dr. Gale Burstein.

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

Influenza A (H7N9) viruses continue to be detected in poultry and their environments in the areas where human cases are occurring.

Finally, and most important, transgenic mice inoculated with prions from human cases of new variant Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease produced the same incubation period and pattern of brain damage as had inoculation with prions from diseased cows.

Such strains can spread among humans, as shown by recent human cases in Denmark even though it has banned antibiotic growth - promoters in livestock.

1947: Scientists identify a new virus in rhesus monkeys in Uganda; first human cases detected in Uganda and Tanzania five years later.

«Additionally, the development of immune response against WNV may have reduced human cases by depleting the susceptible human population.

When traveling in areas where bird flu is common, travelers can protect themselves by avoiding contact with domestic and wild birds because extensive studies of human cases indicate that direct contact with infected poultry was the cause of the infection.

The results show promise for developing therapies against the virus, which causes hemorrhagic fever with human case fatality rates as high as 90 percent.

Dirofilariasis due to D. repens is an emerging zoonosis in Italy (Pampiglione et al., 2001) and it is acknowledged that worldwide distribution of human cases follows the distribution of microfilaraemia observed in dogs and cats (Pampiglione et al., 1995).

Luckily, it's extremely rare — CDC reports an average of just seven human cases per year.

No new human cases have been reported since May 8, which Webster attributes partially to the seasons changing (summer weather is not favorable to the flu), but mainly to China's temporary closing of the live bird markets in Shanghai and other affected areas.

It's a perfect human case study on fear and prejudice that you see in movies like X-Men and even Frozen.

The study in assessed the likelihood of four viruses — Ebola, Lassa, Marburg and Crimean - Congo — spreading on the continent, charting progress from a first human case through to a potential pandemic.

«We'll probably have some small focal outbreak from an imported human case that goes unrecognized for a while, and — like a smoldering fire that eventually blows up — the next thing you know, dengue is endemic in the United States,» he says.

But the first documented human cases of SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, emerged 100 kilometers from the pig farms hit by SADS.

Canada has 165 confirmed human cases out of a population of 33 million people.

Lee warned human cases might easily be missed in countries like Nigeria, where many people suffer from HIV / AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and respiratory infections.

So far, fewer than a dozen human cases of bird flu have been confirmed in Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia, though there could well be many more unrecognised cases.

Mice with a gene mutation linked to rare human cases of autism show a hallmark symptom of the disorder: impaired social interactions.

Laboratory mice bred without the enzyme showed aggressive behavior, and in a famous human case, several male members of a Dutch family who were pathologically violent lacked the gene that encoded for the enzyme.

The study was conducted by researchers in the UC San Francisco Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, using brain tissue from human cases supplied by researchers at the National CJD Survelliance Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland.

A previously developed RT - PCR was adapted for real time PCR detection of ZIKV in samples from human cases during the 2007 Micronesian outbreak [21].

A Brazilian study published in 2011 took a look at the drug seconidazole, used to treat human cases of giardiasis, as a potential treatment for naturally - infected cats.

In persistent human cases, nitrofurantoin (Macrodantin), is often administered indefinitely at low doses.

«Every state has the problem of overburdened courts that understandably prioritize human cases over animal cases in allocating resources,» UConn law professor Jessica Rubin, a specialist in animal law and one of the advocates, told the Associated Press.

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a disease seen in humans too, and in the majority of human cases there is an inherited genetic disorder.

The Malawi Project, launched by WVS and Mission Rabies with the UK charity Dogs Trust, aims to make a real difference to the lives of people and dogs in a country where a third of all global human cases of rabies occur and where someone dies of the disease every 30 minutes.

There were many human cases of salmonella infection possibly linked to this food.

In the midst of a rise in reported human cases of Lyme disease, many New England infectious disease experts are calling...

Most human cases of tick paralysis in the United States have been reported in children or elderly adults.

To date, 61 % of the 433 known human cases of H5N1 infection have proved fatal.

They note that with less than 300 confirmed human cases of H5N1 infection, researchers would be hard pressed to determine the amount of antibodies needed to confer protection.