Sentences with phrase «infect human beings»

Furthermore, some worms can infect human beings, making intestinal parasites a health issue for dogs and humans alike.

How do you think people would react to a wire that is completely filled up with viruses inside, even if you try to explain that those viruses can't infect human beings?

«This may contribute to antibiotic resistance, [and] scientists are more concerned about disease - causing bacteria that develops resistance in farm animals to then infect human beings.

The probability of this virus surviving and infecting a human is so low — it is as if Topham and lead study author, Marta Lopez de Diego, Ph.D., research assistant professor of Microbiology and Immunology, found a needle in a haystack.

And her previous studies of enteroviruses in Southeast Asia showed that viruses that infect humans were more common in wild monkeys than monkey - specific viral species.

Evidence of infection and replication of the two principal viral groups that infect humans was demonstrated for multiple passages of viruses through cell culture (Figure 1).

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.

It is zoonotic, spreading from animals to people — and vice versa, if an infected human were to bite a dog.

Toxoplasmosis has been linked to an anger - management behavior called intermittent explosive disorder, and infected humans are twice as likely to be involved in a car accident.

Not exact matches

It is introduced into humans through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected animals.

If even just a fraction of those can infect humans, those are thousands of reasons to further the research working toward developing effective broad - spectrum antivirals.

What an American doctor trained on the mainland might see as a case of the flu could actually be Chikungunya, a viral disease transmitted to humans by infected mosquitoes.

Commerce is not the only entity that is infected; this virus has incapacitated each aspect of human reasoning.

In sharp contrast to feeling better, we are forced to confront the reality that sin has infected everyone and everything on this planet and that if anything is true of the human condition, it's that it is not something that should make us «feel better.»

One virus - particle doesn't change color, but as it procreates mutations in that process can make the resulting child - virus differ from the parent - virus, so that the child - virus is capable of infecting a human as well as the original host thereby opening the possibility for a new human disease.

Where there is no close contact with infected birds, there's no human disease.

They had to be destroyed completely or they would infect the entire human race.

which was brought on from sitting at the PC eating chips and dip all day arguing with other gods saying humans do exist just look at my pimple it is infected.

No less however, does the anti-Calvinist infect their view of Scripture, because the whole concept of election is repugnant to the human mind.

Why wouldn't it also use wacko humans to kill children for stupid reasons like being infected with devils.

The democracy of desire can not provide a satisfactory basis for the criticism of undemocratic forms of social class, for it is infected by the same subpersonal assumptions which render these modes of human classification offensive.

The researchers believe that HIV - 1 was introduced into the human population when hunters became exposed to infected blood.»

As in a human body, when an organ becomes diseased or infected, the whole body is affected, so it is in Christ's body.

We visited the canecutters» living quarters, smelled the stench of human waste, watched the prostitutes cavort, stuck our heads into the tiny rooms crowded with bunk beds, and spoke with an old man whose foot had been infected for several years.

Yellow Fever is a mosquito - borne virus transmitted to humans through the bite of an infected mosquito.

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.

Contact with live poultry infected with H7N9 flu appears to be the main means of transmission of this disease to humans, which has affected over 200 people since last spring, killing over 50.

What does trouble me is BPI's use of a raw material which by its very nature is highly pathogenic, such that we all might be endangered in the case of human error (as when BPI's ammonia system stopped working for sixty seconds in 2009, leading to 26,000 + pounds of infected meat)(http://nyti.ms/56MIYK) or a new strain of E coli — not part of BPI's admirably advanced testing protocol — emerges (as one did in Germany last summer, killing 345 and sickening 3,700 +.)

Feeding straight animal milk was often associated with severe illness and death of the baby, either because the milk was not clean due to lack of refrigeration or infected with tuberculosis, or the ingredients were unsuitable for human infants, present in too large or too small quantities.

These include the infant with galactosemia, 53,54 the infant whose mother uses illegal drugs, 55 the infant whose mother has untreated active tuberculosis, and the infant in the United States whose mother has been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.56, 57 In countries with populations at increased risk for other infectious diseases and nutritional deficiencies resulting in infant death, the mortality risks associated with not breastfeeding may outweigh the possible risks of acquiring human immunodeficiency virus infection.58 Although most prescribed and over-the-counter medications are safe for the breastfed infant, there are a few medications that mothers may need to take that may make it necessary to interrupt breastfeeding temporarily.

Human bites are more likely to become infected than animal bites.

Another important summer health problem that you should look out for are ticks, which when infected, can spread Lyme disease to humans.

It's found in soil, food, or water that has been contaminated with feces (poop) from infected humans or animals.

When a human host is bitten by an infected mosquito, the parasite (Plasmodium) enters the blood and lays inactive in the liver.

Hepatitis is a highly prevalent infection, the World Hepatitis Alliance estimates that as many as one person in 12 worldwide may be infected with the blood - borne strains Hepatitis B or C, which are passed on in similar ways to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).

«Health Department officials confirm that the species of mosquito found to be infected with EEE generally feeds on birds, but prudence dictates we take every precaution to protect the public's health and safety when dealing with the potentially serious threat this disease poses to livestock and humans,» Picente said.

Chagas disease is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, which, in different forms, infects both humans and insects.

«But in this case, when this virus infects cells, the virus makes its own transcription factors, and those sit on the human genome at lupus risk variants (and at the variants for other diseases) and that's what we suspect is increasing risk for the disease.»

But when the researchers added higher concentrations of BX795 to cultured human corneal cells infected with HSV - 1, the infection was quickly cleared.

Critics have argued that this policy led to infected animals being sold illegally for human consumption until 1990, when 100 per cent compensation was offered.

These effects are also seen in human stomachs infected with H. pylori.

The team found that when LANA is cloned into a virus similar to Kaposi, but which infects mice instead of humans, it preserves its functionality.

Shukla and colleagues discovered that a small drug molecule called BX795, which is sold to labs for use in experiments, helped clear HSV - 1 infection in cultured human corneal cells, in donated human corneas, and in the corneas of mice infected with HSV - 1.

What's more, an ointment containing the peptide effectively treated wounds infected with methicillin - resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and the increasingly common hospital infection bacterium Acinetobacter baumannii in mice and on laboratory samples of human skin.

West Nile is transmitted to humans by mosquitoes that have bitten infected birds.

By that time inadequate controls meant infected beef had been in the human food chain for years, and there were fears of a mass plague of agonising, invariably fatal vCJD.

Some crop — and even human — diseases might be stopped dead in their tracks if researchers can harness a new discovery about how pathogens first infect their hosts

The Zika virus is most commonly transmitted in humans as the result of a bite from an infected mosquito or from an infected human to another human.

Humans can easily develop tularemia through incidental contact with infected rabbits, cats, rodents or other animals (and the ticks or fleas that may be on them).