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.
«
Viruses «piggyback» on host microbes» success: Rather than killing off their hosts in a rapidly growing microbial population, viruses opt to rise with the tide.
Viruses «piggyback» on host microbes» success: Rather
than killing off their hosts in a rapidly growing microbial population,
viruses opt to rise with the tide.
viruses opt to rise with the tide.»
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.