Sentences with phrase «infect a human who»

So what if it was the other way around — that the virus originated in Canadian pigs and infected a human who then traveled to Mexico?

Hantavirus, a serious, potentially life - threatening disease present in some deer mice droppings, can infect humans who inhale the airborne virus when sweeping or cleaning up droppings.

Not exact matches

I am hoping to have a progressive home and raise my daughter to be open and aware, but I do not think I will allow someone elses child into my home to possibly infect or abuse my daughter... He could certainly be a great guy, or he could not be... He could be a bad guy who could change my daughter by hurting her in many different ways... Sex is sex, but another human being being raised by some one you do not know could potentially be harmful... Even if I know the other childs mother or father... the other child could be not so good at heart... I will just raise my child to focus on herself and her future and her education and wants, needs, likes, and dislikes before jumping in the bed with some body who could hit her, impregnat her, or give her an STD: S

For example, mothers undergoing chemotherapy for cancer and moms who are infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV, the virus that causes AIDS) should not breastfeed.

«This raises important questions about whether human norovirus infects tuft cells and whether people who have chronic norovirus infections and continue to shed the virus long after infection do so because the virus remains hidden in tuft cells,» Wilen said.

Another great example is tuberculosis among elephants moving through populations now that the fences have come down around parks in South Africa and moving through human and domestic animal populations that are infected with tuberculosis or who could be infected with tuberculosis.

In people infected with HIV who develop broadly neutralizing antibodies, this antibody region — called HCDR3 — has about 30 amino acids, about twice as long as what is usual for human antibodies.

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.

The scientists, who will work collaboratively with Rothamsted Research, Wageningen University and Radboud University, hope their research will enable the identification of the chemical compounds in human odour to which mosquitoes are attracted and to determine whether infected mosquitoes respond differently to those compounds.

But while researchers have previously been able to infect cultures of human hepatocytes with HBV, the cells» limited lifespan has made it difficult to study the virus, says Bhatia, who is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and a member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science.

In the current study, Vanderbilt researchers led by graduate student Andrew Flyak, the paper's first author, used a high - efficiency method they developed to quickly isolate and generate large quantities of monoclonal human antibodies from the blood of survivors of a 2007 outbreak in Uganda who were infected by the Bundibugyo ebolavirus.

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.

Ballou, who now heads vaccine R&D in the United States at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), and his team bred mosquitoes in an insectary, and then fed them on human blood infected with the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.

Using a model of Parkinson's disease in which the toxin MPTP, made famous in book «The Case of the Frozen Addicts,» induces Parkinson's - like symptoms in humans and mice, Dr. Smeyne showed that mice infected with H1N1, even long after the initial infection, had more severe Parkinson's symptoms than those who had not been infected with the flu.

According to the WHO, there are currently more than 36 million people infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and a further 2.4 million become infected every year.

At a meeting in Geneva this week, the WHO asked pharmaceutical companies and governments for more antiviral drugs and ordinary flu vaccine to prevent chicken handlers being infected by human flu at the same time as bird flu.

To wit, a group of researchers who stumbled across influenza B virus — which was thought to infect only humans — in a stranded harbor seal.

Immunologist Dennis Burton, who specializes in bNAbs against HIV at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California, says the «exciting» concept «still has a long way to go» before bNAb therapy proves its worth in HIV - infected humans.

Prof Jiming Liu who led the study explained, «By basing our model on wild bird migration and distribution of potentially infected poultry we are able to produce a time line of the estimated risk of human infection with H7N9.

While monkeys may be infected with the bacterium, it's not yet clear whether the infection can pass from human to animal and vice versa, said Sheila Lukehart, a UW professor of medicine and global health who co-authored the study.

In the December 2014 issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases the scientists who made this discovery also reported that about 40 percent of all the bugs were infected with T. cruzi and three of the humans had been bitten by infected bugs.

The scientists who posted this paper argued that a lot of people had immune responses to Cas9, because they knew that the two most widely used Cas9 enzymes come from S. aureus and S. pyogenes bacteria, and humans have been infected by these bacterias for a long time.

The team of researchers harvested hematopoietic stem cells from three macaques prior to SHIV infection of all six animals in the study, treated the animals with anti-retroviral therapy (ART) to reduce viral load and mimic the situation in human HIV - infected patients who are treated with ART, and then exposed the three monkeys from which they had collected hematopoietic stem cells to a high dose of radiation.

Anthrax can kill those who inhale it, but is not normally transmitted between humans, so an infected laboratory worker presumably could not have gone home and passed it on.

The Dallas County Health and Human Services Department said that an unidentified patient had become infected with the Zika virus after having sex with an individual who had returned from Venezuela, one of the Latin American countries where Zika is circulating.

An HIV - positive Italian man who intentionally infected 30 women including a 14 - year - old and another victim who passed it onto her baby has been jailed for Human immunodeficiency virus; Scanning electron micrograph of HIV - 1 (in green) budding from cultured lymphocyte.

A marvel of economic storytelling, 28 Days Later follows a handful of survivors that evaded a deadly «Rage» virus that swept the country, the riots and destruction that ensued, and the legion of infected victims who roam the streets at night for human meat.

The film was a great challenge for him as a cinematographer, considering the groundbreaking practical FX as well as all the ways Carpenter likes to set the moodiness and tone with lighting and painting with light (there are many hints throughout the film as to who is human and who is infected through the lighting on their face).

The original film focused on a young woman who «develops a taste for human blood after undergoing experimental plastic surgery, and her victims turn into rabid, blood - thirsty zombies who proceed to infect others, which turns into a city - wide epidemic.»

After all, we know that Fassbender is pulling double duty this time around, playing the malicious android David (who was introduced in 2012's Prometheus) and a new android named Walter, who supposedly isn't all about infecting human beings with alien weirdness to see what happens.

Apparently this virus spreads through the ingestion of the blood of an infected person, and within mere seconds of being infected, a human being will turn into a ravenous zombie which only has one desire: to seek and infect others who do not have the virus.

Pets can easily be infected by intestinal parasites, a source of disease in not only cats and dogs, but also in the humans who care for them.

This zoonotic virus is almost 100 % fatal in anyone who contracts it — dog, cat, fox, rodent or human; usually spread through the bite or scratch of an infected mammal.

Parvo can be spread by human handlers who do not wash properly after handling infected dogs or items.

A cat infected with FIV is in the early stages of FAIDS, much like a human being who is HIV positive is in the early stages of Aids.

Unless planning to be in a high - risk situation, such as handling unknown animals or travelling to a part of the world where rabies is still rampant, humans are usually vaccinated for rabies only after they have been bitten by an animal who is possibly infected.

Not every animal or human who touches infected animals or objects will become infected; the age, immune status, skin condition and grooming habits of the recipient influence if the fungus is actually able to grow and infect.

One of the most common ways in which this virus is transmitted to cats is actually through humans who have touched an infected cat and then unknowingly spread those germs to healthy cats on their hands or clothing.

Humans who are in contact with infected cats will also transfer the virus on their shoes, clothes and hands and thereby contaminate or infect healthy cats.

You are the (only) brains of the operation, infecting bystanders and cleverly mutating your zombies to overrun 40 levels of pitiful humans who will fight to the inevitable death.

«In this case of first impression, the majority holds that a wife who sues her husband claiming that he negligently infected her with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is not limited to a theory that he did so knowing he was HIV positive but that liability also extends «to those situations where the actor, under the totality of circumstances, has reason to know of the infection.»»

Treatment (s) which is incurred by an Insured Person (s) who is HIV Positive (i.e., infected with the human immunodeficiency virus, the cause of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) at the time of Application for this Insurance, whether or not the Insured Person (s) was asymptomatic or symptomatic or had knowledge of his / her HIV status on the initial Effective Date of Coverage, or any associated diagnostic tests or charges for HIV infection, seropositivity to the AIDS virus, AIDS related Illness (es), ARC Syndrome, AIDS, and all diseases caused by and / or related to HIV;

Similarly, compared with people more socially connected, people who experienced loneliness exhibited less natural killer cell activity [15] while men infected with HIV had higher human herpesvirus 6 antibody titers related to the more socially connected counterparts [16].