Sentences with phrase «people become infected»

In the United States, more than 56,000 people become infected with HIV each year.

Every year tens of thousands of people become infected by C. diff bacteria and many people, who otherwise would have been healthy enough to leave the hospital end up dying untimely, horrible deaths from this health - care assisted disease.

One of the most common ways people become infected is through drinking unpasteurized (raw) milk.

When people become infected they usually develop a red ring - shaped rash (and a bald spot, if it's on the scalp) that's often itchy.

Every year, millions of people become infected with dengue virus: a mosquito - borne pathogen that poses an increasingly serious threat to global health.

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

People become infected with Legionella bacteria by inhaling contaminated water droplets, often from cooling towers or spas, or contaminated soil such as potting mix.

People become infected when they are bitten by mosquitos.

Most people become infected with EBV, which is often asymptomatic but commonly causes infectious mononucleosis.

In less - developed nations, 90 percent of people become infected by age 2.

The infection does not spread from person - to - person — people become infected with the bacteria through inhalation of contaminated water droplets.

An estimated two million people become infected with drug - resistant bacteria in the US each year.

in the 80's a lot of people became infected and i mean a lot due to the medical profession not knowing how to test for this illness, thus anyone could become infected due to recieveing contaminated blood during a transfusion.

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

As their model epidemic unfolded in all the 5 - kilometre squares, 93.4 million people became infected before herd immunity kicked in.

After an unseasonably warm late spring, summer, and early winter in 2012, the U.S. experienced a West Nile Virus outbreak linked to the Asian Tiger mosquito, with some 5,600 people becoming infected.

«The number of people becoming infected and dying is decreasing, but the international resources needed to sustain this progress have declined for the first time in 10 years, despite tremendous unmet needs.»

[Cases] spread like wildfire with more than 8,000 people becoming infected globally over a three - year time frame.

He posited that a person became infected in rural Cameroon and then traveled by river to what is now known as Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Dengue fever is one of the world's virulent infectious diseases, with more than 400 million people becoming infected each year.

With more than 2 million people becoming infected with HIV in 2015 alone there is no time to lose.

They found that 88 % of people became infected with the virus (as measured by cold virus in their nose or antibodies in their blood), but not all of those people actually got sick.

The spread of sexually transmitted diseases has increased rapidly in the past decades with thousands of persons becoming infected.

Natural resistance Healthy humans, cats, and other species are by nature quite resistant to infection - so resistant, in fact, that if a person becomes infected with the fungus, it always heralds the need to look for some underlying disorder of the immune system (such as AIDS and certain forms of cancer).

During this outbreak, one person became infected with the H7N2 flu virus after prolonged, unprotected exposure to the sick cats, the CDC said.

Not exact matches

when the bodily fluids of an infected person mix with that of an uninfected person the uninfected runs a RISK, not a sure fire guarentee of becoming infected.

According to the CDC, people usually get E. coli infections from «eating undercooked, contaminated ground beef,» however you can also become infected through «person to person contact in families and child care centers,» from drinking raw milk, after swimming in or drinking water that has been contaminated with sewage, and by having contact with infected farm animals.

Most experts think children become infected from people (usually family members) who have no symptoms, although some believe kids can pass along the virus when they cough or sneeze.

«I may be in a small minority, but I am one of those people who do not become infected by the view that we must have a democratic House of Lords.

Both interventions use anti-HIV drugs to prevent people from becoming infected and they are major elements of the plan.

They include proposals for expanding public benefits, housing, and healthcare for people with HIV, using anti-HIV drugs to prevent people from becoming infected, and improving the use of data and monitoring to measure the success of the plan.

Outlined in the governor's 2016 policy book are new laws would eliminate the parental consent requirement for HIV - positive teens in need of treatment and for at - risk teens who want to get on Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, or PrEP — a medication that protects HIV - negative people from becoming infected.

People who received kidneys from donors infected with hepatitis C did not become ill with the virus, thanks to treatment with newer drugs that can cure the disease, a small study reports.

Of 5,837 people in Guinea and Sierra Leone who received a single shot of the vaccine, rVSV - ZEBOV, none became infected with the virus 10 to 84 days after vaccination.

Specifically, 74 people who had received the placebo became infected with HIV in the trial period, compared with the 51 people who became infected after receiving the vaccine, which makes for a protective effect of 31.2 percent.

The risk of unprotected exposure to vaccine - preventable diseases is far higher: for example, more than 90 percent of unvaccinated people exposed to measles will become infected.

By 2000, 33 million people were infected, 14 million had died, and in Africa it had become the number one cause of death through infectious disease.

The Zika virus is currently spreading in Central and South America; over one million people have become infected since spring 2015.

The virus is spread by respiratory droplets that can linger in the air for hours; virtually any unvaccinated person who comes in contact with it will become infected.

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.

It is not that these people were fortunate to become infected with a less fit virus but rather «the immune system drives it to a less fit variant,» he adds.

The microbe may rarely infect people, but when it does, it may kill the human host, who becomes a literal dead end for the virus as well.

Earnest conceded that there's no way to screen people who are infected before they show symptoms — which is the point at which they become contagious.

As of 31 May, 78 people had become infected with HIV.

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.

And for every 10 people who do receive ARVs, 16 become newly infected.

The difficulty in tracking Zika stems from the fact that most people who become infected show no symptoms at all, and those who do become ill have signs and symptoms that overlap with more common viral infections, such as dengue and chikungunya.

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

Individuals such as Roy Cornes, a haemophiliac living in Birmingham, have been accused of infecting several sexual partners in a short time, yet it is equally possible for people to be exposed thousands of times to the virus without becoming infected, whether through gay or straight sex.

And he said «some encouraging signs» have surfaced from both Mexico and the United States that infected people rarely become seriously ill from this novel virus.