Sentences with phrase «when infected persons»

Some benefits come along when infected persons decide to use the positive singles.

Mayor de Blasio and health officials reassured city residents on Friday that Spencer was not contagious while he roamed, and that Ebola can only be caught when the infected person is showing symptoms of the disease, including fever and vomiting.

When infected people relieve themselves, the worms» eggs can spread into streams or ponds via their urine and feces.

Hepatitis C is transmitted when an infected person's blood enters a healthy person's bloodstream, for example, via contaminated needles (including unsterilized tattoo needles), accidental needlesticks in healthcare workers, and less often, unprotected sex.

Chlamydia is passed along when an infected person's body fluids, including semen, vaginal fluids, or anal secretions, come in contact with a partner's mucous membranes (the soft layer of tissue that protects organs and body cavities, including the mouth, vagina, penis, and anus).

Next Page: Stay away from sickies [pagebreak] Stay away from sickies Getty Images The flu gets passed around primarily when infected people sneeze, cough, or just talk, sending tiny, virus - filled water droplets out of their mouths and noses and into yours, from as far as 6 to 10 feet away.

The infection can ONLY be passed on from one person to another when the infected person is having an «outbreak» at the time of coitus.

Eating food or drinking liquids contaminated with it (as when an infected person doesn't wash their hands but touches your plate or glass)

The transfer of fecal - to - oral diseases occurs when an infected person doesn't use good hand - washing techniques with soap and water.

Not exact matches

When the scientists modeled disease transmission, they found that while an «infected person's 11 nearest neighbors faced a greater than 80 percent chance of infection,» Wired reports, «all the remaining passengers, however, had a lower than 3 percent risk.»

when the bodily fluids of an infected person mix with that of an uninfected person the uninfected runs a RISK, not a sure fire guarentee of becoming infected.

We had a good laugh together, but then he went on to tell me that these are urgent times when we need the Church to be the Church — and to remember that we are people of reconciliation and peace in a world infected with violence and prejudice.

When a caregiver or parent doesn't practice proper hygiene by washing their hands properly after cleaning up the stool of an infected person, or changing diapers.

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.

Some people will have nausea and jaundice (yellow skin and eyes) when they are first infected.

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

The country and neighbouring Niger were both badly hit by meningitis outbreaks in 2015, when over 13,700 people were infected in six months, with more than 1,100 deaths.

Dengue is most dangerous when a person is infected a second (or subsequent) time.

The World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland, put the brakes on implementation of the world's first dengue vaccine today when it recommended it only be used in people who have previously been infected with the disease — a move that will shrink the potential market for the vaccine's producer, Sanofi Pasteur.

«This study provides support for this idea that antibodies under certain conditions can be bad and actually cause severe disease when people are infected with dengue,» says viral immunologist Sujan Shresta of the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology in California.

Ebola virus and its cousin Marburg virus are spread when people come into contact with the bodily fluids of a person or animal who is already infected.

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.

Blue - tainted transfusion bags were still common in Latin America until a few years ago, when the decreasing costs and increased reliability of testing finally made it possible to routinely screen infected people.

In general, most people infected with one of the other three viruses tested in the study — West Nile Virus, Chikangunya or Dengue — either had no symptoms or, when ill, had mild symptoms.

Rather than waiting for an infected person's immune system to produce noticeable amounts of antibodies, the team chose to home in on the bacteria itself — specifically, proteins the bug sheds when attacked by the body's defenses.

G.W.'s Davis is part of a project researching the disease schistosomiasis (a.k.a. snail fever or swimmer's itch), a blood parasite transmitted to humans by snails; people can get it by swimming or wading in contaminated fresh water when infected snails release larvae that can penetrate the skin.

Y. pestis was initially passed from person to person — say, when an infected individual coughed on a healthy person — and most likely caused lung infections known as pneumonic plague or blood infections called septicemic plague, the researchers report October 22 in Cell.

HIV infects the body by corrupting T cells that are mobilized by the immune system when the virus enters a person's body.

«When a person is infected with HIV, the virus infects immune cells and knocks out the body's interferon production; the first line of defence in our bodies.

«If we had known about SARS when it had only infected a few people, we might have stopped it then,» says Ab Osterhaus of Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, who helped set up the system.

In the Middle Ages it sometimes killed thousands of people during epidemics when ergot - infected rye bread was more common.

But such estimates are meaningless when we know that some people are infected by a single exposure while others go uninfected after thousands of risky encounters.

When someone is suspected of being infected, health workers isolate them, but also try to trace everyone that the person has recently had contact with and monitor these contacts for 21 days, the maxiumum incubation period of the disease.

Since 2016, when Zika was declared by the World Health Organization as a public health emergency of international concern, the virus has become established in more than 80 countries, infected millions of people, and left many babies with birth defects (collectively called congenital Zika syndrome).

Schistosomiasis infects people when they wade in freshwater containing the parasitic flatworms.

Experiments that model the bacteria in animal cells, for example, have shown that P. aeruginosa behaves and grows in certain ways only when it is in the infected lungs of a person with CF.

When released from infected cells, the virus can spread through the body and between people.

In 1975, when St. Louis encephalitis struck Chicago, more than 500 people contracted the disease and 47 died; the next year only a handful were infected.

When a person is infected with HIV, there is an initial burst of virus production.

Until this week, the WHO recommended that HIV treatment should begin when each millilitre of an infected person's blood contains fewer than 350 CD4 cells, the white blood cells targeted and destroyed by HIV.

«When you consider that 200 million people across the world are infected with malaria and each of them is harbouring parasites that are continually generating millions of antigenic variants, it becomes apparent why our fight against malaria is so challenging,» says Professor Dominic Kwiatkowski, who leads MalariaGEN and is head of the Malaria Programme at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

These scenarios assumed that Zika transmission would not decrease during the winter months, that preventive measures to protect against mosquito bites would not be taken, that anyone who was infected with Zika would have symptoms when they returned to their home countries, that people who were infected would return home immediately and that the home countries would not use precautions to prevent mosquito bites in their home countries.

Roughly 3 million people are infected in the U.S., mostly as a result of blood transfusions before the mid-1970s, when paid blood donations were stopped.

When the team sequenced these regions and compared them to those from SFV strains isolated from a wide variety of different species, they discovered that one person had most likely been infected with an SFV strain from a gorilla, one with a mandrill strain, and the third with a virus from a monkey species called De Brazza's guenon.

People become infected when they are bitten by mosquitos.

When norovirus infects humans it breeds in the intestine, and researchers predicted that the virus spreads by transferring from asymptomatic people to infants and the elderly.

«Furthermore, since T callipaeda is zoonotic and capable of infecting several other mammalian species, both people and cats should also be considered at risk of infection when travelling to such areas,» they warn.

Lyme disease is transmitted when blacklegged ticks infected with the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi bite people.

Compared to the new assays, the current molecular standard assay failed to identify 16 % of infections, and at least 40 % of those contained parasite gametocytes, the parasite stage that is transmitted when mosquitoes bite an infected person.

Sidibé says the results should help put to rest debates about the worthiness of spending money on ARVs as prevention when only one - third of the 15 million HIV - infected people in the world who need treatment for their own immediate health have access to drugs.