Sentences with phrase «virus infects the people»

The virus infects the people around him, allowing him to tell them a specific command (example: If Kilgrave says «Follow me,» you'd have to follow him regardless of whether you wanted to).

Officials do not believe the virus infects people, though it does spread to cats.

There is no evidence that H3N2 canine influenza virus infects people.

Not exact matches

The mosquitoes pick up the virus from infected people, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

It is primarily transmitted by tropical mosquitoes — the same kind known for spreading dengue — that pick up the virus from infected people, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

There is also evidence that the virus can be spread through sexual contact with an infected person.

The virus, which causes symptoms similar to those caused by E. coli, can be contracted from an infected person or from contaminated food, water or surfaces.

As a 2009 CDC document about Zika notes, we thought the same about West Nile virus — until we realized that it could cause serious neurological illness in a very small percentage of people infected with it.

The World Health Organization estimates that three - fourths of HIV - infected people in the world acquired the virus heterosexually.

On the other hand, there are obviously means by which the AIDS virus is transmitted from a person who is infected to one who is not.

For the sake of those they might infect with this deadly virus, any person who tests positive should either refrain from sexual intercourse altogether or at least make use of a latex condom.

A similar invasion of civil rights is implicit in the initiative to require doctors to report to the Department of Health persons infected with the AIDS virus, and in the proposed restrictions that would prohibit any family planning institution receiving federal funds from informing clients of the availability of abortion services.

«It's spread by a virus, you pick it up from contact from body fluids from an animal or person that's infected.

According to the NHS The vast majority of people infected with hepatitis B are able to fight off the virus and fully recover from the infection within a couple of months.

Only a small fraction of people infected with the JE virus actually develop the disease.

The severity of the flu differs from person to person, so it's possible to be infected with the virus and not know it.

Zika virus usually remains in the blood of an infected person for only a few days to a week.

Your baby can catch the virus if an infected person touches her bottle or if an infected person coughs or sneezes on the nipple of the bottle.

mothers who are infected with hepatitis C virus (persons with hepatitis C virus antibody or hepatitis C virus - RNA - positive blood)

Hepatitis A virus is found in the stool of infected people.

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.

Up to 1.5 million people have been infected with the Zika virus, in Brazil alone.

This is a very common virus and is spread by any physical contact — such as touching, kissing, and shaking hands — with an infected person.

Forty - nine people in New York have been infected with the Zika virus, Gov. Cuomo said Thursday as he laid out a plan to combat the dangerous disease.

The mass hysteria over Ebola erupted when a doctor who had been treating people infected with the disease overseas contracted the virus himself.

Only one of five people infected with the virus develop symptoms, which can include fever, rash, joint pain and red eyes.

World authorities are fighting to limit the effects of the virus, but 103 people have already died in Mexico, where the current outbreak took place, with 1,600 people infected.

Hepatitis is a highly prevalent infection, the World Hepatitis Alliance estimates that as many as one person in 12 worldwide may be infected with the blood - borne strains Hepatitis B or C, which are passed on in similar ways to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).

The Powassan virus is spread to people by infected ticks, and can cause central nervous system disruption, encephalitis, and meningitis.

Many species of bats may spread the deadly virus, which has infected 20,171 people and killed 7,890 in the ongoing West African outbreak.

Once infected, the virus remains in people for their entire lives.

At that time scientists knew that antibodies from people infected by the 1968 pandemic virus also reacted with an influenza strain isolated in 1963 from flu - ridden ducks.

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.

Because the virus is unable to infect the same person twice — thanks to the immune system generating antibodies to kill it — the epidemic reaches a stage where there are too few people left to infect for transmission to be sustained.

There are experimental vaccines that protect people given it before they are exposed to the virus, but there has been no drug to help those who are already infected.

So far only one person, a 62 - year - old Cameroonian woman living in Paris, France, has been found to be infected with the virus, which closely resembles strains of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) recently discovered in wild western gorillas.

At first the virus infected only 3 percent of people who had person - to - person contact with a SARS patient.

That's not how people get infected with this virus.

In 2007, the virus — which normally infects birds and occasionally jumps from birds to humans — affected seven countries, prompting experts to warn that it could gain the ability to jump from person to person and trigger a pandemic.

If you have a pathogen — a virus — that infects man, most people will survive.

«This raises important questions about whether human norovirus infects tuft cells and whether people who have chronic norovirus infections and continue to shed the virus long after infection do so because the virus remains hidden in tuft cells,» Wilen said.

The deep look into the genes of transmitted H5N1 viruses also reveals the surprising degree to which the virus can mutate and genetically diversify in each infected host, a troubling trait for a pathogen that has so far infected 637 people, killing 378.

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

The natural forms of these small viruses normally infect people without causing disease.

The virus is transmitted from person to person through contact with infected blood or bodily fluids, but the origin of each outbreak is ultimately linked to wildlife.

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.

«Almost every human being is infected with one or more of these viruses, but most people never develop symptoms, much less breast cancer,» Friedenson said.

The virus infects 50 million to 100 million people every year, the World Health Organization estimates, but many cases go unreported.

«New test detects all viruses that infect people, animals.»