Sentences with phrase «rarely infects people»

The A (H5N1) virus largely affects birds and rarely infects people, but it is highly dangerous when it does.

The new study examined the effects of three types of influenza A — H1N1, the strain behind 2009's swine flu outbreak; H7N7, a dangerous strain that only rarely infects people; and H3N2, the strain behind much of the 2017 — 2018 flu season misery (SN: 2/17/18, p. 12).

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.

Like whipworms, tapeworms rarely infect people.

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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.

INJECTIONS of reovirus, a harmless virus that infects most people at some point but rarely causes symptoms, appears to boost the action of cancer drugs.

«Infected people rarely have symptoms, and typically only reproducing women get tested, so we know very little about the true extent of Zika's sexual transmission.»

Although most people infected with HIV produce antibodies against the virus within several weeks following infection, these antibodies rarely prevent the infection from progressing to full - blown AIDS.

Humans with brucellosis experience long - term spiking fevers that are rarely fatal unless the infected person has an immune deficiency.

People (rarely cats) can also be infected with Leptospira bacteria and contact with a dog suffering from leptospirosis is a potential route of infection.

Very rarely some dog worms will try to infect people and can make them sick, but the worms come from places where lots of dog eggs have been shed, like parks and playgrounds, and not necessarily from a single pet.

One cause of CIRDC, Bordetella bronchiseptica, can be contracted by cats and rarely can infect a severely immunocompromised person (for example — a person with AIDS or undergoing chemotherapy).