Sentences with phrase «only infects humans»

Let's break down the name: H — Human: This virus only infects humans and is only passed from human to human.

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) only infects humans and other primates and, therefore, can not be spread from or to dogs, cats, even birds, fish, or reptiles.

Hi Alice, No, parvo in humans (parvovirus B19) only infects humans.

Normally, mice can not be infected with HIV, which only infects humans.

The loss could explain why the organism only infects humans, as it may lack the tools that would allow it to get into other animals.

For example, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C can only infect humans and chimpanzees, and although this species barrier prevents us from being susceptible to every infection out there, the flipside is that finding treatments for human infections can be extremely difficult.

Not exact matches

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

Within just 15 weeks, only one version dominated — the type best suited for infecting humans.

Only humans are infected by guinea worm, and the larvae die within months if no one swallows the water fleas carrying them.

Human immunodeficiency virus - type 1 (HIV - 1) replicates actively in infected individuals, yet cells with intracellular depots of viral protein are observed only infrequently.

Aliases: Swine flu variant (the word variant applies to influenza A subtypes that usually only infect pigs if they go on to infect humans.)

By connecting distant places, meanwhile, globalization permits the long - distance transfer of microbes along with their insect vectors and their human victims, as evidenced not only by the spread of HIV around the world, but also by North American cases of cholera and SARS brought by infected passengers on jet flights from South America and Asia, respectively.

Although doctors officially have recorded only seven cases of new human infections in North America, a new study found that five of 13 kissing bugs collected from California and Arizona had bitten a human host — and many of the bugs they collected were infected with Chagas.

The issue has become a lightning rod for debate because the only thing standing between H5N1 bird flu, which infects birds in half a dozen countries in Asia and in Egypt, and a nasty pandemic is that the virus is hard for humans to catch.

«The influenza field is largely fixated on studying pandemic or potential pandemic viruses, but those viruses only infect a few dozen people every year whereas seasonal flu infects millions — and yet we don't study human influenzas closely enough.»

For decades, researchers believed only primates — humans, chimpanzees and a few species of monkeys — could be infected by HAV.

Although Mimi infects only amoebas, many of its kin pose a direct threat to humans.

«The pathogen does not care if it jumped from an animal or from another human; the only difference is that in a stuttering transmission an infected person can trigger other chains of human infections.

So far there have been no reports of Parkinson's disease in human survivors of the H5N1 flu, Smeyne says, but because only a few years have passed since the first cases were reported, it's too early to know whether those infected are at increased risk.

«Phages do not pose a risk to humans because they can only infect bacteria.

The new family tree can also help researchers examine related groups, such as the types of plagues that currently affect only rodents (such as Microtus strains and those that have been found in Chinese marmots)-- and what genetic changes might need to occur to allow them to infect humans.

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

In tests using human neural progenitor cells (NPCs)-- self - renewing, multipotent cells that generate neurons and other brain cell types — the scientists found that exposure to sofosbuvir not only rescued dying NPCs infected with the Zika virus, but restored gene expression linked to their antiviral response.

Human flu strains can infect both kinds of cells, but avian flu strains can bind to and infect only the ciliated kind, which are similar to cells in the airway and the gut of birds.

HIV was identified in the early 1980s as a retrovirus - the class of virus that had been studied in animals, but had only been found to infect humans a short time previously.

And no matter how much we learn in preclinical tests, only people become infected with HIV — human immunodeficiency virus, the virus that causes AIDS.

Close contact with horses is the only way the disease has transmitted to humans but once infected, humans have only a forty percent chance of survival.

Using primary murine bone marrow derived macrophages or human monocyte derived dendritic cells, infected with live or attenuated Chlamydia trachomatis we report that the live organism activates both canonical and non-canonical inflammasomes, but only canonical inflammasomes controlled IL - 1β processing which preceded pyroptosis.

For only the second time in history, a great plague has descended upon London, infecting the human race with a deadly disease.

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.

While there are over 213 strains of leptospirosis, only 8 can infect humans and dogs, and 5 can infect cats.

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.

Parvo infects mammals only and doesn't transmit to humans.

Like a human cold it only takes one infected dog to spread the infection and may do so for days or even weeks after they have seemed to recover.

Human health concerns Although FIV is similar to HIV (the human immunodeficiency virus) and causes a feline disease that is similar to AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) in humans, it is a highly species - specific virus that infects only felHuman health concerns Although FIV is similar to HIV (the human immunodeficiency virus) and causes a feline disease that is similar to AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) in humans, it is a highly species - specific virus that infects only felhuman immunodeficiency virus) and causes a feline disease that is similar to AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) in humans, it is a highly species - specific virus that infects only felines.

Only a few species of mammals (for example, humans, monkeys, and apes) have shown the ability to become infected with and spread Ebola virus.

Only cats can get FIV, as the virus does not infect other species of animals or humans, she said.

The mosquito - borne parasite Dirofilaria immitis is known to infect multiple species, including dogs, cats, ferrets, wolves, coyotes, foxes, sea lions, and even humans.1 Canids, including dogs, are the definitive hosts, while cats are viewed as aberrant or atypical hosts.1 Unlike dogs, in North and South America, D immitis is the only filarial disease that infects cats.2

The latter promises to be a very popular vaccine, even though 40 % of adult humans in the U.S. have already been exposed and are immune, infected cats only shed the parasite for 1 - 3 weeks in their entire lives, and the risk of this disease is higher from gardening or consuming rare meat.

Only one of these viruses is theoretically transmissible between cats and humans — this is Chlamydia psittaci; it is not a major cause of cat flu and humans are far more likely to catch it from infected parrots as psittacosis.

Of the many bacteria that cause hamster diarrhea, only a very few can infect humans — although it is important to be aware of this possibility.

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.

Osborne accused cats of infecting humans with bubonic plague, whooping cough, mumps, and foot - and - mouth disease, of which only bubonic plague even afflicts cats.

These mites, known as Demodex canis, normally only infect dogs and not humans.

Some species of dermatophytes are species specific, meaning that they will only infect one species, whereas others can be spread between different species of animals, or from animals to humans.

Not only do these bacteria cause sneezing in cats, but they can also similarly infect the human system as well.

Only one of these viruses is theoretically transmissible between cats and humans - this is Chlamydia psittaci; it is not a major cause of cat flu and humans are far more likely to catch it from infected parrots as psittacosis.

But how long willFor only the second time in history, a great plague has descended upon London, infecting the human race with a deadly disease.

For only the second time in history, a great plague has descended upon London, infecting the human race with a deadly disease.

The only way the humans can survive is by sticking together and blasting through the seemingly endless onslaught of infected and mutated brain - munchers.