Sentences with phrase «killer virus»

And while the idea of combining two killer viruses sounds horrifying, the risks should be low.

Patients in danger of dying from uncontrollable bacterial infections could find new allies: killer viruses known as phages.

It was difficult to believe that this clean, orderly, even idyllic place was really Yambuku, the heart of the mysterious killer virus.

But Joel reminded us that naming killer viruses after specific places can be very stigmatizing; with Lassa virus, discovered in 1969 in a small Nigerian town of that name, it had caused no end of problems to the people from the locality.

On the wall of Elijah's workshop among the newspaper clippings is a headline «Killer Virus Released at Airport».

A lifelong lover of solving puzzles, Morse gravitated toward some of the most mysterious microbes: killer viruses that seemed to strike from out of nowhere, sometimes reaching pandemic levels.

For some researchers the big goal is to bump up the effectiveness of existing vaccines, most of them made from chemically - killed influenza particles or proteins extracted from such particles (see «Anatomy of a killer virus»).

So far, the killer virus looks like a run - of - the - mill swine flu, not an avian virus as some virologists had suspected — leaving scientists to wonder why the strain was so deadly.

In this week's issue of Nature, a team of scientists describes for the first time what happens at the genomic level in animals infected with the killer virus.

The current outbreak is in equatorial Africa as were all those before it, but the killer virus may evolve the ability to spread further afield

When swine flu emerged in Mexico last April, it was dubbed a «killer virus» because of its apparent high mortality rate.

Although there are currently no licensed Ebola vaccines on the market anywhere, J&J's subsidiary, Janssen Vaccines and Prevention BV, is working on a second - generation product, which would provide protection against three killer viruses.

Ebola's reputation as a killer virus is well deserved — the most recent outbreak, in West Africa from 2014 - 2016, caused more than 11,000 deaths among 28,000 infections, according to the World Health Organization.

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The movie's craft makes the dread of a killer virus contagious: viewers may feel they have come down with a case of secondhand SARS or sympathetic monkeypox.

Bruce Willis starred in Twelve Monkeys, in which a killer virus was first released at the Philadelphia airport.

Their second co-written novel, Catch Your Death - the tale of «a killer virus» and «a race to save the world» - is currently number one in the company's e-books bestsellers chart ahead of works by Stieg Larsson, John Grisham and Michael McIntyre.

There's no Plymouth with a mind of its own (Christine), no killer virus (The Stand)-- there's not even an unbalanced parent (The Shining, Carrie) or crazed fan (Misery).

His next book will be published in May 2008: Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science.

A killer virus is attacking kittens and cats, feline infectious peritonitis, and it's difficult to diagnose.

There are two forms of this killer virus: cardiac syndrome and diarrhea syndrome.

Whether it was a vulnerable young kitten who succumbed to a killer virus or an elderly feral cat who became overwhelmed with health problems, each and every cat knew love from dedicated caregivers and the benefit of the best veterinary care that we could provide.

Now, in the aftermath, they find themselves in unknown territory, forced to deal with the disastrous consequences of the killer virus.

«If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.»