Sentences with phrase «other infected people»

Disease travels in predictable ways: we contract them from the environment, through inanimate vectors or other infected people.

Not exact matches

On the other hand, there are obviously means by which the AIDS virus is transmitted from a person who is infected to one who is not.

The growth counselor's function is to help such persons as they work through their resistance to bury a dead relationship; uncouple without infighting so as to avoid further hurt to each other and to their children; agree on a plan for the children that will be best for the children's mental health; work through the ambivalent feelings that usually accompany divorce — guilt, rage, release, resentment, failure, joy, loss — so that each person's infected grief wound can heal; discover what each contributed to the disintegration of their relationship; learn the relationship - building and love - nurturing skills which each will need either to enjoy creative singlehood or to establish a better marriage.

People are infected with HIV / AIDS or other terminal diseases.

Dr. Stephen Keener, Mecklenburg County medical director, said the quarantine is just a preventative measure: «Quarantine is a public health measure to protect the public that requires healthy people who were exposed to a disease to be prevented from contact with others until it is certain that they are not infected».

«Religious and political groups, spiritual healing centres, families, associations and other bodies should, in the meantime, discourage gatherings and activities that may unwittingly promote close contact with infected persons or place others at risk.»

Approximately one in five people who are infected will develop a fever with other symptoms.

Approximately 1 in 5 people who are infected will develop a fever with other symptoms.

She spent weeks at a time at the clinic, helping to improve patient care, tracking trends in HIV and other STD patterns, and observing the behaviors of infected and uninfected people.

She points out that the test would have to have a very low rate of false positives to avoid putting healthy people at risk of picking up diseases from other, genuinely infected people.

One SARS patient with diarrhea managed to infect 321 other people in an apartment complex because faulty plumbing aerosolized his feces, allowing them to drift on wind currents into other apartments.

If there is poor sanitation or people are crowded together, those germs are likely to infect other hosts.

«Perhaps,» he says, «it spent time in other animals» before infecting people.

In the most famous example of cannibalism - related disease transmission, the Fore people of New Guinea were nearly driven to extinction as a result of their ritualized consumption of brains and other tissues cut from the bodies of their deceased kin — kin who had been infected by kuru, an incurable and highly transmissible neurological disease.

To control the spread of cholera during an outbreak, rapid care for infected people is vital, including providing ready access to rehydration therapy — a huge challenge in a country where civil war has wreaked havoc on public health and other infrastructure.

The search should include family and other contacts of infected people, plus healthcare workers and the general population, as well as animals, he says.

In this way the parasite spreads very efficiently through the population; one person infected with malaria could potentially infect over one hundred others.

In 1 in 10 cases, people infected with these germs spread the disease to apparently healthy people in the hospital — such as patients, doctors or nurses — who in turn can act as silent carriers of illness, infecting others even if they don't become sick.

The new 3 - D structure, which was obtained using X-ray crystallography and electron microscopy, revealed that the outer surface of the Zika NS1 protein has substantially different electrical - charge properties than those of other flaviviruses — indicating it may interact differently with the members of an infected person's immune system.

The Epstein - Barr virus, which infects some 90 % of Americans, may cause changes in gene expression that dramatically increase a person's chance of getting lupus and six other autoimmune disorders, a new study by Harley, now a rheumatologist at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Ohio, and colleagues shows.

«Researchers are still working to understand precisely how Zika and other flaviviruses interact with an infected person's immune system,» she said.

Unfortunately for him and for many other people, he had picked up severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS — perhaps directly from an infected bat or from a small, arboreal mammal called a civet, common in one of Guangdong's famous «wet markets» that sell wild animals for food, or else from a person or chain of people ultimately infected from one of those animal sources.

After a person becomes infected, early symptoms — fever, a swollen eye — may be mistaken for any number of other ailments.

The research suggests there are more people infected in lymphoid tissues, who may never develop the disease but could still infect others via blood transfusions or organ donations

In general, most people infected with one of the other three viruses tested in the study — West Nile Virus, Chikangunya or Dengue — either had no symptoms or, when ill, had mild symptoms.

All last week CDC officials reiterated their conclusion — based on nearly 40 years worth of successfully containing past outbreaks — that you can not catch the Ebola virus from people who are infected unless they have already begun suffering a fever or started showing other signs of illnesses.

A small percentage of people who do become infected never seem to suffer any harm, and others hold the virus at bay for a decade or more before showing damage to their immune systems.

World Health Organization researcher Ana Maria Henao - Restrepo and colleagues tested a «ring vaccination» approach, by immediately vaccinating family members and other contacts of people infected with Ebola.

The Epstein - Barr virus (EBV), which infects some 90 % of Americans, may cause changes in gene expression that dramatically increase a person's chance of getting lupus and six other autoimmune disorders, a new study by Harley and colleagues shows.

Although the cholera bacterium, Vibrio cholerae, is usually thought of as a disease - causing organism, most strains never infect people and live freely in estuaries and other brackish waters.

Campylobacter jejuni infects more than a million people yearly in the United States and is also known to trigger other autoimmune disorders such as Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Reiter's arthritis.

This is likely due to a change in people's behavior: they avoid contact with others, so fewer people are infected.

It is now well known that sexually transmitted diseases dramatically increase the likelihood that a person will infect others with HIV, or become infected.

If the retroviruses infected a person during or after a transplant, they could disrupt important human genes, leading to cancer or other diseases.

The new study, published in Eurosurveillance, concludes that each infected person infects between 2.2 and 3.1 others, a «reproduction ratio» in keeping with those of other pandemic influenza viruses.

We take it for granted that tickling causes laughter and that one person's laughter will easily «infect» other people within earshot.

But such estimates are meaningless when we know that some people are infected by a single exposure while others go uninfected after thousands of risky encounters.

However, similar viruses have infected people in other countries, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

During this period, an infected person can pass the virus to others.

This is especially true for younger gay men, who are being infected at a higher rate than others, and people who have a history of substance use and heterosexual men.»

This strain can infect people who may be exposed by contact with infected animals, by drinking raw milk, or by consuming other contaminated food products.

HBV can be contracted through contact with an infected person's blood or other bodily fluid, and the infection can either be acute or chronic.

«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.

More than 1 billion people are infected with disease - causing species worldwide, while other strains flourish in wheat, corn, and other crops, where they destroy food harvests.

«In people chronically infected with hepatitis B or C, human papillomaviruses or other viruses known to cause cancer, radioimmunotherapy could potentially eliminate virus - infected cells before they're able to transform into cancer cells.»

However, bnAbs are found in only a minority of infected people, in quantities too small to clear the virus, so Burton and other researchers are now trying to design vaccines to elicit these bnAbs in numbers large enough to provide effective protection.

The impetus for the plan is evidence from recent clinical trials showing that treating people with HIV earlier not only reduces the likelihood of disease progression but also lowers the chances that they will infect others.

A new HCV infection is effectively treated with direct - acting antiviral drugs, but the researchers say a preventive vaccine is needed to control what they call an HCV pandemic because as many as 50 percent of people infected are unaware that they carry the virus, putting others at risk of infection.

«We need to make sure people know the facts, have the right information to protect themselves and know how to avoid infecting others,» says Sophie - Jane Madden of international health charity Médecins sans Frontières.

«We need to make sure people know the facts, have the right information to protect themselves and know how to avoid infecting others,» says Sophie - Jane Madden of charity Médecins sans Frontières.