Sentences with phrase «in circulating virus»

Of six people with HIV given the treatment, one cleared the virus completely and another two saw 10-fold drops in circulating virus.

Not exact matches

Over 31,000 cases have been reported in Puerto Rico, where the virus has been circulating among local mosquitoes since December 2015.

«Zika virus is known to be circulating in South - East Asia Region and these findings do not change the global risk assessment.»

Its effectiveness depends on your baby's overall health (it's more effective in healthy children) and how well the vaccine matches the virus that's currently circulating.

This is especially true during the winter, when many of the viruses that cause colds are circulating in larger numbers.

Viruses that cause common colds and illnesses circulate in larger numbers during winter months as people, children especially, are kept indoors more and germs are spread easily.

US health authorities on Friday urged people to use condoms or refrain from sex if they live in or have traveled to areas where the Zika virus is circulating.

Until recently, global health officials paid little attention to the Zika virus that circulated in the same regions as Dengue and Chikungunya viruses.

Flu vaccines work by introducing a killed version of circulating virus strains, which trains the body's immune system to recognize and attack similar invaders in the future.

Both drift and shift make these proteins unrecognizable to the antibodies present in people that were previously inoculated against the flu virus, which now circulates as more than 90 strains.

«There were a couple of these in the vaccine strain the past two seasons that wound up making it a little bit different from the actual circulating virus strain.»

The common sense things are avoid contact with people who are currently sick; wash your hands or use alcohol - based disinfectants frequently; avoid contact in particular with people who may have just traveled to parts of the world where we know the virus is circulating; cough or sneeze into your sleeve, not your hand.

«We were able to explain that very few mutations are needed for the hemagglutinin of the currently circulating H5N1 viruses to become a hemagglutinin that supports respiratory droplet transmission in ferrets,» he says.

The new flu, which has elements of pig, bird and human flu viruses in it, has been circulating for at least a month in Mexico.

What's worse, genetic analyses revealed that the virus had been circulating in Borno undetected for 5 years.

It's Russian roulette to let a virus circulate in your country knowing you have susceptible kids.

If the virus is circulating in an area, there's a high probability that you could get exposed.

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The best one of these also reduced the amount of virus circulating in the blood of Zika - infected mice.

An H2N2 virus causes the «Asian» flu pandemic, completely displacing the H1N1 viruses that have been circulating in humans since 1918.

Lederman, who says he's «obsessed» with Jenner and has been working on a biography of the scientist for 20 years, is convinced that Jenner's original vaccine, now named vaccinia, was derived from a virus circulating in horses, not cows, as folklore has it.

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

«A case in point is the China - Taiwan H7N9 outbreak, which was caused by a virus made of genetic segments previously circulating in chickens in China and ducks in Korea,» the authors note.

They tested a strain of Zika virus currently circulating in human populations in the Americas and another from Africa, which is the original strain identified in 1947.

That's because there are multiple strains of flu viruses circulating at any one time, said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious - disease specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.

Noting the «relative lack of surveillance for swine influenza viruses,» the authors suggest, «this virus might have been circulating undetected among swine herds somewhere in the world.»

«It was not known whether any of these vaccines could provide protection against the new outbreak West African Makona strain of Ebola Zaire currently circulating in Guinea,» said John Eldridge, Chief Scientific Officer - Vaccines at Profectus Biosciences, Inc. «Our findings show that our candidate vaccines provided complete, single dose protection from a lethal amount of the Makona strain of Ebola virus.»

«We found that in each of the regions we could analyze, Zika virus circulated undetected for many months, up to a year or longer, before the first locally transmitted cases were reported,» says Bronwyn MacInnis, an infectious disease geneticist at the Broad Institute, in Cambridge, Mass. «This means the outbreak in these regions was under way much earlier than previously thought.»

And some of those mutations were the same as ones found in flu viruses circulating around the world a few years later, evolutionary virologist Jesse Bloom of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle and colleagues discovered.

The assay offers rapid, specific, sensitive, and inexpensive detection of the Asian - lineage Zika virus strain that is currently circulating in the Western hemisphere, and can also detect the African - lineage Zika virus strain using separate, specific primers.

In another case, those same two cancer patients» viruses had tyrosine at position 193, but globally circulating viruses had either phenylalanine or serine at that position, the researchers found.

«The matching process is not a perfect science, therefore, in some flu seasons, the vaccine available in the fall is not a good match for the circulating virus strains and is less effective,» said senior author David Weiner, Ph.D., Executive Vice President and Director of the Vaccine and Immune Therapy Center at The Wistar Institute.

Prior to 1889, the main flu virus circulating in humans has been from the H1 family.

But the 263 known viruses that circulate in humans represent less than 0.1 percent of the viruses suspected to be lurking out there that could infect people, researchers report in the Feb. 23 Science.

As the centenary of the great flu epidemic looms, we are right to be pessimistic — especially with H7N9 bird flu virus quietly circulating in China

In any given season, the effectiveness of the vaccine depends on how good a match there is between the viruses used in the drug's production and the strains that are actually circulating that yeaIn any given season, the effectiveness of the vaccine depends on how good a match there is between the viruses used in the drug's production and the strains that are actually circulating that yeain the drug's production and the strains that are actually circulating that year.

While only a few strains of flu virus circulate worldwide in a typical year, dozens more may exist.

Despite rigorous modeling practices, the virus in the vaccine occasionally doesn't match the circulating strain of influenza.

If you remember, too, that H1N1 is originally a human virus, it was given to pigs by us, and it still circulates, a different variant of it obviously, still circulates in people.

But once the wild virus stops circulating — as officials hope will happen in a few years — OPV is left as the only source of infection.

The weakened virus sometimes sticks around in people and the environment, and can circulate and mutate back into a killer.

Killing monkeys ends up harming humans as well, says Jùlio Bicca - Marques, a primatologist at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil: «The death of monkeys from yellow fever is the first warning that the virus is circulating.»

More surprising still was the fact the viruses appeared to have been almost frozen in time; they looked like H1N1 viruses that circulated in the early 1950s.

The study, published online in the Journal of Virology, also highlights the importance of flu virus surveillance — conducting studies like Topham's to see how the flu is changing, what flu mutations are circulating in humans and animals, and how those mutations affect virus function.

The recent frenzy in Bali stood in notable contrast to the research paralysis that has gripped this tropical archipelago since late 2006, when Supari declared that flu viruses circulating in Indonesia belonged to her government alone.

One of the lessons was that there may be a fair amount of cross-protective immunity in the human population to a number of the viruses currently circulating in swine, some of which were introduced into pigs from people in the past.

A new variant of an influenza virus that circulates in pigs has been jumping occasionally into people, providing a surprisingly early opportunity for public health officials to test out some of the lessons learned from the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.

Early in their study, the team noticed differences between the expected 3BNC117 abundance in humans over time, given its half - life, and the actual abundance, a discrepancy hinting that some of the antibodies may be targeting not just circulating virus particles but HIV - infected cells as well.

Furthermore, it makes it possible to look for these mutations in H5N1 viruses circulating in the wild, to provide an early warning of the emergence of viruses that might transmit among humans.

Sales of pork plunged in 2009 when the new H1N1 was identified as swine flu, a reference to the fact it was comprised mainly of genes from flu viruses that circulate in pigs.