Sentences with phrase «human outbreak of the virus»

There's also some optimism that the human outbreak of the virus is not as threatening as earlier feared.

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The outbreak of Ebola virus in West Africa in 2014, and the worldwide panic it caused, served as a wake - up call: We as a human race are still extremely vulnerable to fast - spreading, infectious diseases.

Updated statement as of September 1, 2016 Even as Zika virus outbreaks continue to be identified in the U.S. and abroad, HMBANA affirms that donor human milk is safe for even the most vulnerable

Research published in early 2004 shows that the viruses from all known human cases of the 2003 outbreak seem to descend from the same lineage.

The emergence of the new H1N1 flu strain has demonstrated the effectiveness of existing systems to watch for human flu outbreaks while also proving a long - standing theory that pigs could serve as mixing vessels for a pandemic virus.

Although Zika's path was documented starting in 2015 through records of human cases, less was known about how the virus spread so silently before detection, or how outbreaks in different parts of Central and South America were connected.

With increasing population growth in West Africa, the frequency of contact between humans and natural Ebola virus hosts such as bats will likely rise, potentially leading to more catastrophic outbreaks.

After 1919, the descendants of the H1N1 virus continue to circulate and cause seasonal flu outbreaks in humans — and pigs.

After an outbreak of MERS in South Korea and fears of the virus coming to the UK, a vaccine gives hope — but its effectiveness in humans remains uncertain

Ebola virus causes severe hemorrhagic fever in humans and nonhuman primates with high mortality rates and continues to emerge in new geographic locations, including West Africa, the site of the largest outbreak to date.

Researchers studied the structure of proteins from one strain of the H7N9 virus that caused the outbreak and tested how strongly one of the proteins bound to molecules on the surfaces of bird and human cells.

H7N9 is a strain of flu virus that normally infects birds but has spread to at least 779 humans in a number of outbreaks related to poultry markets.

It should prompt donors and international organizations to ramp up their funding of efforts to control outbreaks of the H5N1 virus in poultry, and so give the virus fewer opportunities to evolve into a human pathogen, she says.

The research does not conclude that the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) can transmit Zika to humans, but it highlights the need for deeper research into additional potential vectors for the virus that has rapidly spread through the Americas since its initial outbreak in 2015, says Chelsea Smartt, Ph.D., associate professor at the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory at the University of Florida and lead author on the study to be published this week in the Entomological Society of America's Journal of Medical Entomology.

«This study allowed us to utilize all our tools — and even though this virus does not appear to affect mammals, we are continuing to refine those tools so we can be better prepared for the next outbreak of disease that could have an impact on human health.»

All influenza viruses ultimately come from birds, and the paper begins the somewhat operatic and knotty story of this outbreak's origins with an H1N1 first isolated in swine in 1930, which itself was a close relative of the virus that caused the 1918 pandemic in humans.

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.

Zika virus «spillback» into primates raises risk of future human outbreaks.

And it remains far from clear that bats are the hosts of the deadly zoonotic disease since two similar surveys of thousands of animals, including bats, at sites where human outbreaks occurred in the past failed to turn up any sign of Ebola virus.

Developing tests and closely monitoring the virus's behavior in hopes of controlling a human outbreak may be a more realistic alternative, she says.

In contrast to some initial studies that had suggested that H7N9 poses an imminent risk of a global pandemic, the new research found, based on analyses of virus samples from the Chinese outbreak, that H7N9 is still mainly adapted for infecting birds, not humans.

In the case of Ebola, they argue that the sampling of fruit bats after human outbreaks may have biased subsequent investigations toward bat - Ebola virus ecology, and other, possible host species may have been overlooked.

During every recent human outbreak of the Ebola virus — which often causes victims to bleed to death — gorilla carcasses have turned up in nearby forests, but scientists were uncertain about the extent of the disease's impact.

We used the Virochip, a microarray designed to detect all viruses, to identify a new species of adenovirus (TMAdV, or titi monkey adenovirus) that caused a deadly outbreak in a colony of New World titi monkeys at the California National Primate Research Center (CNPRC), and also infected a human researcher.

Though the West African Ebola outbreak that began in 2013 is now under control, 23 countries remain environmentally suitable for animal - to - human transmission of the Ebola virus.

To explore a potential link between the outbreak and associated illness in humans, we blindly tested available sera from titi monkeys (n = 59), rhesus macaques housed in the same building (n = 36), CNPRC personnel and close contacts (n = 20), and random human blood donors (n = 81) for evidence of recent or prior infection by TMAdV by virus neutralization (Fig. 6).

Despite the propensity for the mosquitos to bite non-human vertebrates, the study revealed that local virus transmission and human outbreaks might occur when the mosquitos feed from humans even just 40 % of the time.

The authors» intention, they wrote, was for this comprehensive analysis to «provide a framework for predicting the behavior of future outbreaks for Ebola virus» and other human pathogens and to guide targeted, life - saving responses.

They believe the humans have been destroyed as there has been no trace of them since the outbreak of the virus.

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.

Horse owners are advised to follow these basic CDFA and UC Davis Center for Equine Health (CEH) biosecurity guidelines to decrease the potential EHV - 1 / EHM spread at equine facilities and events: • Limit horse - to - horse contact • Limit horse - to - human - to - horse contact • Avoid use of communal water sources • Avoid sharing of equipment unless thoroughly cleaned and disinfected between uses • Monitor horses for clinical signs of EHM including fever of 101.5 °F or greater, nasal discharge, cough, reddish mucous membranes, puffy and red eyes, swollen legs and acute onset of neurologic signs (ataxia, recumbency, urinary incontinence) In 2011, an EHV - 1 / EHM outbreak at the Western National Cutting Horse Event in Ogden, Utah potentially exposed the virus to at least 2,106 horses at 242 equine facilities in 19 states (including California) and one Canadian province, and forced the cancellation of horse shows from coast to coast.

No evidence shows that cats play a sustained role in transmitting the virus, the AVMA reports, noting, «There have been no known cases of human avian influenza [AI] resulting from exposure to sick cats, and there have been no outbreaks of AI among domestic cat populations.»

All six Resident Evil movies have starred Milla Jovovich as Alice, a security operative for Umbrella who became its enemy after the outbreak of the T - Virus that transformed humans into zombies.