Sentences with phrase «of fatal viruses»

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The challenge is urgent because more than 31,000 people in the United States have already been diagnosed with this fatal disease — half of whom have already died, leaving families, friends and loved ones who need care — and because at least 1.5 million Americans are thought to be carrying the rapidly spreading virus.

An «imminent threat to public health» was declared in Suffolk County by the state Department of Health after the discovery of mosquitoes carrying Eastern equine encephalitis virus, a rare but potentially fatal pathogen.

The virus, which is spread through the bite of a mosquito, is fatal to horses in up to 95 % of the cases.

Femi Makinde in this piece examines the efforts of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Lions Club and international agencies at stopping measles in Osun State Measles which is an infectious disease caused by the rubeola virus can be fatal but the good news is that it can be prevented by vaccine.

Rabies is caused by a virus that people and other mammals can get through exposure to the saliva or nervous tissue of a rabid animal and is fatal without proper «Post Exposure Prophylaxis («PEP») vaccines.

It follows a wave of fatal outbreaks of the virulent disease in neighboring Guinea and Liberia, where health workers have been battling to contain the virus since Monday.

THE famous Galapagos finches could be among the first casualties of mosquitoes that are stowing away on aircraft, potentially bringing fatal viruses to the islands.

Officials estimate that four out of five people who contract the virus do not get sick and the virus is rarely fatal.

The scientists have successfully introduced it into an entirely new host: Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that spreads the virus that causes dengue fever, which produces severe, flulike symptoms and rash and, in its more dangerous hemorrhagic form, can be fatal in about 5 percent of cases.

Because survivors of an Ebola infection would typically have produced effective antibodies against the virus (otherwise they wouldn't have survived), transfusions of their blood into a newly infected individual may help that person survive the often fatal disease.

Since 2001, fatal outbreaks of the virus among people have occurred annually in Bangladesh and India.

Why can mosquitoes carry deadly viruses without succumbing to them and live on to give humans West Nile, dengue fever, and a host of other fatal illnesses.

Opioid dependence is a growing public health problem in the United States and globally, associated with the spread of viruses such as HIV and hepatitis C, as well as fatal overdose when left untreated.

The viruses that cause FMD (members of a diverse family of small RNA viruses called picornaviruses) are not all that deadly; they can cause fatal cardiac arrest in young animals, but most adult animals recover.

Web Series And Shorts In H +: The Digital Series, nearly one - third of humanity falls victim to a fatal computer virus that attacks the implanted devices now connecting people's nervous systems directly to the Internet.

For nearly 30 years, researchers have gathered evidence that a group of bizarre, fatal brain diseases — including mad cow and its human equivalent, Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease — are caused not by a virus or bacterium but by an abnormal form of a protein, called a prion.

«Controlling and successfully balancing the immune response following Ebola virus infection is greatly important for reducing symptoms and fatal outcomes,» said Mathieu Iampietro, the co-lead author of the paper.

A new study by Kansas State University veterinary diagnosticians finds that pets with out - of - date rabies vaccinations are very unlikely to develop the fatal disease if given a rabies booster immediately after exposure to the virus.

Lassa virus causes a severe hemorrhagic fever that is 20 to 50 percent fatal in humans, and results in permanent hearing loss in about one - third of those who survive.

One particular strain, Zaire ebolavirus, is one of the deadliest viruses we know and fatal in up to 90 % of cases.

The virus is able to pass the blood - brain barrier, and the most serious effects (in 0.7 % of the infected) are encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) and meningitis (inflammation of the lining of the brain and spinal cord), both of which can be fatal.

This week, Dan Barouch at Harvard Medical School and his colleagues report that their vaccine made from the whole, killed virus left mice immune to a normally fatal dose of Zika.

A form of HIV that first hit in the 1980s now seems slower and less aggressive, suggesting that the virus may be evolving to be less fatal

Some researchers now fear that the contacted individuals, who speak a Panoan language, will spread the potentially fatal virus to other nonimmunized members of their tribe.

In the two decades following the epidemic, wild canids died following CDV infection but fatal CDV was not observed in lions or spotted hyenas anymore, even though high prevalence of serum antibodies against CDV in some years indicated outbreaks of asymptomatic exposure to the virus in lions and hyenas.

The long - running debate about why just one of several canine distemper virus (CDV) outbreaks in the Serengeti in Tanzania during the past 25 years was fatal for lions and spotted hyenas has been resolved.

The viruses were isolated from the first two fatal cases of pandemic influenza in the country and one patient with severe illness.

Epstein - Barr Virus Associated Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis Presenting as Fever of Unknown Origin With Fatal Outcome

Symptoms have resolved quickly for this group of cats, and so far, the virus has not shown to be fatal in felines.

«We are committing everything we have, every resource at our disposal, to developing the therapies that will improve the lives of the millions of people worldwide who live with the hepatitis B virus every day, as well as the risk of dying prematurely from its most fatal consequence, liver cancer.»

Why people on immunosuppressant drugs for autoimmune conditions have a higher incidence of an often - fatal brain disease may be linked to a mutation in a common virus, according to researchers at Penn State College of Medicine.

Syd is in the business of supplying these bugs, but when he tries out the blood of the world's hottest model on himself, he accidentally infects himself with a fatal virus.

Full of rage was the answer Danny Boyle came up with in 28 Days Later..., in which a group of animal liberation militants free lab chimps infected with a fatal virus.

Where Valentine (Samuel L. Jackson) was trying to wipe out a chunk of humanity for the good of the planet, Poppy has infected her entire user base with a virus - one that will prove fatal without an antidote, which Poppy will only release if the President of the United States (Bruce Greenwood) ends drug prohibition.

Yes, «Dawn» continues the story that «Rise» started, a sci - fi tale that involves the emergence of a virus that increases the intelligence of apes while at the same time proving fatal to most humans.

Q: Do dogs die from canine influenza?A: Fatal cases of pneumonia resulting from infection with canine influenza virus have been reported in dogs, but the fatality rate is low (less than 10 %).

Distemper Virus A very contagious and often fatal disease of the respiratory tract, gastrointestinal tract and nervous system.

Leukemia is a fatal virus, but it does not live for more than a few minutes outside of the body, and so must be transmitted by exchanging bodily fluids such as fighting, grooming, or even drinking out of the same water bowl at the same time.

A: Fatal cases of pneumonia resulting from infection with canine influenza virus have been reported in dogs, but the fatality rate is low (less than 10 %).

Symptoms have resolved quickly for this group of cats, and so far, the virus has not shown to be fatal in felines.

Rabies, is a fatal virus which can attack the nervous system of any mammal, but most commonly carnivores.

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.

Feline panleucopenia virus (also known as feline parvovirus or feline infectious enteritis) is a severe and frequently fatal cause of haemorrhagic gastroenteritis.

Rabies is almost always 100 percent fatal and is a virus that is transmitted through the saliva of an infected animal.

Feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) is a fatal viral disease caused by a strain of virus called feline coronavirus (FCoV).

Rabies is an extremely serious (most - times fatal) virus that infects the brain and spinal cord of all mammals (including humans!).

While acquiring leukemia does require physical contact, kittens are highly susceptible to this fatal disease, and it only takes one accident of your kitten slipping out the door for them to potentially become exposed to this virus, and the vaccination for this is very easy to give.

Additionally, parvovirus, distemper virus and several other viruses that infect the stomach or intestinal tract of dogs can be fatal.

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.

Highly contagious viruses, which can be fatal or very expensive to treat, can often be avoided by staying on top of your pet's vaccine schedule.