Sentences with phrase «than the virus killing»

That suggests that the damage done to the lungs is the result of an overreaction of the host, rather than the virus killing cells, Kash says.

Not exact matches

The deadly Ebola virus spread throughout West Africa from 2014 to 2016, killing more than 11,000 people and drawing numerous aid workers and medical professionals to the continent.

The outbreak of the virus last year killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa.

The virus is responsible for nearly all cases of cervical cancer, which each year kills more than 4,000 American women — half of whom are estimated to live in the South.

An H3N2 virus causes the «Hong Kong» flu pandemic, which is even milder than the Asian flu, killing an estimated 0.75 million to 1 million people worldwide.

The 1917 virus had infection and mortality rates typical of seasonal flu, but a single mutation in the proteins affecting how the virus binds to a host cell may have led to the deadly 1918 wave, which killed more than 50 million people worldwide.

Smaller than a virus and used in more than 200 consumer products, silver nanoparticles can kill and mutate fish embryos, new research shows.

In the knockout mice, the virus replicated to higher levels than in those treated with the antibody, killing most of the fetuses.

The eradication initiative chose OPV, rather than the original Salk vaccine made of killed virus (inactivated, or IPV), for good reason: it's cheap and effective.

More than 80 per cent accepted the need for a modified myxoma virus, but they were more wary of deliberately releasing rabbit calicivirus, a disease which kills the animals overseas.

A more recent incident — the 2005 publication in the journal Science of the sequence of the 1918 flu virus, which killed more than 20 million people — prompted computer pioneers Ray Kurzweil and Bill Joy, in a New York Times op - ed article, to rail against too much scientific openness.

In October two reports described the complete sequence and reconstruction of the 1918 flu virus, which killed an estimated 675,000 Americans and more than 20 million people worldwide.

The virus reached Finland in May 2009 and killed more than 50 people in the country.

The influenza virus kills 20,000 to 40,000 mostly elderly people each year in the United States, and a bad flu season can cost more than $ 12 billion in lost productivity, medical care, and drugs.

Back when the three domains of life were emerging, a large DNA virus very much like Mimi may have made its way inside a bacterium or an archaean and, rather than killing it, harmlessly persisted there.

Both vaccines target a protein made by Zaire ebolavirus, the virus that raged through West Africa in 2014 and early 2015, killing more than 11,000 people (SN: 12/27/14, p. 14).

Instead of growing a virus in an egg and injecting people with a «killed» version, the strategy, in the works for more than a decade, involves harvesting just one viral protein.

The H1N1 swine flu virus caused a pandemic in 2009, spreading to over 200 countries and killing more than 18,000 people.

However, the total seems likely to be higher simply because the virus will infect far more people than normal, and it kills directly more often.

An unprecedented wintertime outbreak of West Nile virus has killed more than two dozen bald eagles in Utah and thousands of water birds around the Great Salt Lake, state wildlife officials said on Tuesday.

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have genetically modified mosquitoes to resist infection from dengue virus, a virus that sickens an estimated 96 million people globally each year and kills more than 20,000, mostly children.

There may be a «silver bullet» for Ebola, a family of hemorrhagic viruses, one of which has killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa in the past two years.

The agent belongs to the coronavirus group, which includes several common cold viruses but also the virus that causes SARS, a severe disease that killed more than 700 people during a fast - moving global outbreak in 2002 and 2003 before it was contained.

And even if they were more dangerous than common flu strains, it would not make any difference because manufacturers kill the virus as part of the vaccine production process, notes the group.

When the birds weren't vaccinated, infection with highly virulent strains killed them so fast that they shed very little virus — orders of magnitude less than when they were infected with less virulent strains.

When they killed the animals a week later, they found that the virus had broken apart dystrophin in their hearts and that the membranes of heart cells infected with Coxsackie B virus were more permeable to blue dye than uninfected cells.

(Reuters)- An unprecedented wintertime outbreak of West Nile virus has killed more than two dozen bald eagles in Utah and thousands of water birds around the Great Salt Lake, state wildlife officials said on Tuesday.

The accusation that Capua and others set off a human epidemic made no sense, she said, because one mild flu case does not constitute an epidemic; moreover, the avian virus she allegedly spread was a different strain than the one that killed the birds in Italy.

So far the Hendra - like virus has not actually been isolated from pigs, but the fact that some pigs are dying suggests that they are infected with something other than Japanese encephalitis — which rarely kills the animals.

Ultraviolet light would quickly kill the virus in an aerosol cloud, he argued — and if it had somehow survived, it would have infected more than just one crew member aboard the ship.

Vaccines containing killed viruses were tested in children and appeared safe, but when the children encountered live measles or RSV, they got sicker than unvaccinated children.

Each virus has infected fewer than 200 people, but both kill a sizable number of the people who contract them.

The DNA vaccine for Zika virus is more immunogenic and effective than other vaccines because it can create memory responses, which inactivated vaccines with killed viruses fail to produce, Higgs said.

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The virus went on to kill more than 11,000 people over the next two years, orphaning as many as 30,000 children and damaging affected West African economies.

This piggyback - the - winner model better explains virus - host dynamics during periods of fast microbial growth than the established kill - the - winner model, the researchers said.

With Merkel cell carcinoma, which almost always kills quickly, many more cases are triggered by a common virus than by exposure to ultraviolet light.

(The viruses kill more than half the people infected by them, a fact that inspired the mega-bug in the movie Contagion.

The nanoparticle vaccine platform can be safer to certain populations than vaccines that use either live or killed virus, he said.

Rather than using a killed or attenuated virus to develop a vaccine for dengue, de Silva's lab is focusing on «expressing the E protein and attaching it to nanoparticles to induce good immune responses,» Metz said.

If Sierra Leone is declared free of transmission of the Ebola virus it would leave just one country with the disease — Guinea — after an epidemic that has killed more than 11,200 people since late 2013.

The West African Ebola epidemic dwarfed all previous central African outbreaks of the virus, sickening more than 28,000 people and killing more than 11,000 of them.

The H1N1 flu virus is estimated to have killed more than 4,000 in the United States and many more worldwide in the 2009 - 2010 flu season, causing the first global flu pandemic in over 40 years.

Fortunately, the virus is essentially unable to live in the environment for more than a few minutes, and is quickly killed by heat or disinfectants.»

These vaccines are priced higher per dose than adjuvanted (killed) FeLV and rabies virus vaccines, a factor that influences purchasing decisions.

The one good thing is that the virus doesn't survive for much longer than a few hours at room temperature and is pretty easily killed in the environment by bleach or quaternary ammonium disinfectants.

The appliance kills more than 99.9 percent of harmful bacteria, including 100 percent of the H1N1 influenza A virus.

Dr Schultz has further speculated that for most dogs, revaccination is probably only necessary every three years, although the persistence of immune competence may vary, since modified live virus vaccines stimulate a stronger response from the animal than do killed vaccines.

Today, arguably more than ever, Americans understand that gun violence is a public health epidemic killing innocent people, just the way a virus does.

But Frank Bruni, writing for The New York Times, said perhaps we should be more scared about a virus that kills many more Americans than Ebola every year: influenza.