Sentences with phrase «to transmit the virus»

No one wants their own child to develop cancer from a sexually transmitted virus or to lose the capacity to bond with another person in a stable marital relationship.

And the tick can transmit the virus in 15 minutes.

People may transmit the virus from an infected animal, although that has not been determined in this case.

This would not only allow them to start treatment at an early stage but also ensure they don't transmit the virus to anyone they're involved with.

An infected cat can transmit the virus through its saliva, which gets under the skin of another cat through a cat bite that breaks the skin.

But even assuming the released cat does transmit the virus and another cat does get sick, this is not your responsibility.

The puppies can then transmit the virus to each other.

Once infected, cats can become carriers for life, and though they may not show clinical signs, they can still transmit the viruses to others.

A year later they realized that mosquitoes transmitted the virus — and that humans could catch it too.

Types made with live strains of a virus could potentially transmit the virus to the baby.

It's also possible to transmit viruses via a USB port.

The vaccines protect against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer, which kills almost a quarter of a million women worldwide each year.

Be sure to thoroughly wash hands to not transmit the virus to others.

The most important thing you can do is reduce the risk of transmitting the virus as much as you can.

Mosquitoes are essential for transmitting the virus between people so the findings have important implications for understanding how to slow the spread of the disease.

A view through a microscope shows the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which transmits the virus Zika, at a laboratory at the National Institute of Health in Bogota, Colombia.

Fleas can also transmit the virus from cat to cat.

Chlamydia trachomatis is inactivated by lauric acid, capric acid, and monocaprin (Bergsson et al 1998), and hydrogels containing monocaprin are potent in vitro inactivators of sexually transmitted viruses such as HSV - 2 and HIV - 1 and bacteria such as Neisseria gonorrhoeae (Thormar 1999).

An urbanizing planet knitted by transportation is an extraordinarily welcoming world for infectious disease, particularly easily transmitted viruses like the flu.

Early use of antiretroviral therapy for HIV, Cohen found, slashed the risk of transmitting the virus by 96 percent.

Advances in HIV research, prevention, and treatment have made it possible for many women living with HIV to give birth without transmitting the virus to their babies.

Some airports have infrared cameras to spot people with a fever, but at best these slow the spread, as people transmit the virus before any symptoms appear.

In additional experiments, quail transmitted virus efficiently, while pekin ducks and pigeons did not.

Yet if the sexual dysfunction stems from a physical issue or might be more psychosocial — with men worrying about transmitting virus to their partners via their semen — is hard to pin down, he observes.

WHO is already recommending the rollout of a national semen screening program in Sierra Leone and other Ebola - affected nations to help Ebola survivors avoid transmitting the virus, as well as behavioral counseling for male survivors.

These kittens usually become infected by their mothers who transmit the virus in their saliva or milk.

We cover our face when we sneeze to protect others from our viruses and we wash our hands to prevent transmitting viruses on door knobs and other surfaces.

She added that people who work with dogs, such as veterinary and animal shelter staff, may unknowingly transmit the virus to their own dogs.

Also, if «we prove that people who are acutely infected transmit the virus most, we can use this group as a target group for prevention measures.»

Aphids and leafhoppers transmit viruses and mycoplasmas from infected plants to healthy plants.

«The scientists found that the naturally evolved weakening of the virus is actually beneficial for the virus because infected rabbits lived longer and were able to better transmit the virus.»

This «epigenetic» approach not only reduced symptoms, but unlike existing treatments, also reduced shedding (the release of virus particles which can transmit the virus even in the absence of symptoms) and forced the virus to remain in a latent stage, preventing its reactivation.

Infection with the mosquito - transmitted virus often leads to no symptoms, but can cause fever, joint and muscle pain and other flulike symptoms.

Funeral traditions in the Congo, which often involve touching and washing the body, can help transmit the virus.

The HIV with the semen component was five times more effective at transmitting the virus.

HPV is the most common sexually transmitted virus among Americans (and cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women worldwide).

European mosquito strains are thought to specialize in either birds or mammals, but U.S. mosquitoes that transmit West Nile virus may be hybrids that feast on both, thereby transmitting the virus from one species to the other.

As well as studying genetic material in newly transmitted viruses, Ho's group also looked at their phenotypes — the biological characteristics that determine how they behave in their environment.

That's why researchers at a laboratory headed by Greg Ebel, ScD, at Colorado State University, are testing what happens in the Aedes variety of mosquitoes responsible for transmitting the viruses when they encounter more than one virus at a time.

«Whenever we had die - outs of the directly transmitted infectious individuals, which would otherwise have spelled the end of the outbreak, we had reignition from the sexually infectious individuals transmitting the virus to the susceptible people left in the population, who then served as a source of direct transmission,» Vinson said.

Because the mosquitoes that carry and transmit the virus thrive in warm and humid conditions, it is more commonly found in areas with these weather conditions.

A recent study has revealed that people, who took daily doses of antiviral drugs, were half as likely to transmit the virus compared to those who didn't.

However, «natural» infection usually only occurs through biting, with the infected saliva transmitting virus into the victim's bloodstream.

Once a cat is infected with FIV it is infected for life and can transmit the virus if it bites another cat.

Ticks can transmit this virus very quickly.

It may take several weeks for your cat to return to complete normality, but once she has, she will have a life - time immunity to FPV and will not transmit the virus after the initial infection.

There are no known cases of pets transmitting the virus back to people.

It was discovered a few years ago that putting some species of Wolbachia into some species of insect reduced their ability to transmit viruses causing human disease such as dengue (sample US patent)- they are rendered «refractory».