Sentences with phrase «infected meant death»

For four thousand years, being infected meant death, whether it was a human or another mammal.

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The virus means death before the age of five for nearly all infected infants.

At present, the estimate of the death rate in the UK and the US is 0.5 per cent, meaning that about five people die for every 1000 people infected.

With the World Health Organization's recent prediction that an avian flu outbreak could infect up to 30 percent of the world's population, that kind of lag time could mean thousands of unnecessary deaths.

Remarkably, blood CD4 T cells are resistant to this death pathway, in part because the cells are in a deeper state of rest, meaning the virus is unable to infect them completely, which prevents the onset of the chain of events that leads to pyroptosis.

Morbidity (incidence rate or the prevalence rate of a disease) is higher then mortality (susceptible to death), meaning that almost all dogs; which come in contact with the virus are infected, but the flu has not been proven to be fatal as of yet.

Spread through an infected dog's urine, exposure can mean anything from a mild infection to death.