Sentences with phrase «humans during the outbreak»

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Genetic similarity across the sequenced 2014 samples suggests a single transmission from the natural reservoir, followed by human - to - human transmission during the outbreak.

Such blood transfusions have not yet been systematically studied in humans for Ebola (although such transfusions have been used in limited circumstances including, reportedly, when U.S. physician Kent Brantly was infected with Ebola in Liberia and on others during an earlier outbreak elsewhere in 1995).

«If we study humans before, during, and after the plague, we should see how the human genome responded to these repeated outbreaks and the response in bacteria,» Poinar says.

Collins, however, notes that Ebola vaccines had only been tested in macaques before they were used in human trials during the recent Ebola outbreak.

The plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, is one of the deadliest pathogens in human history, sparking three major pandemics: the Plague of Justinian, which struck the Roman Empire during the 6th and 8th centuries; the second plague pandemic, which first erupted in Europe in the mid-14th-century Black Death and continued to strike the continent in recurrent outbreaks until the mid-18th century; and the third plague pandemic, which emerged in China during the late 19th century.

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.

Previous research led by Vazquez - Prokopec showed that contact tracing of human cases of dengue fever, combined with indoor residual spraying for Aedes mosquitoes in homes, provided a significant reduction in the transmission of dengue during an outbreak.

«Our main goal, as the premier genomics laboratory of the Department of Defense, was to advise policymakers, the medical community, and those involved in the development of pharmaceuticals on the effects viral evolution might have on medical countermeasures as a consequence of the sustained human - to - human transmission during the Ebola outbreak in western Africa,» Palacios said.

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].

Presently scientist discovered no cure for herpes or treatment that can eliminate herpes virus form the human body, although they identified non-prescription analgesics that lessen pain and fever during initial outbreaks.

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.