Sentences with phrase «with infected people»

The four cases appear to have been infected in early July just north of downtown Miami in an area of about 2.5 square kilometers, the Florida health department reported after doing intensive investigations to rule out the possibility that the patients were infected by traveling to affected countries or via sex with infected people.
But to find the 20 people subsequently infected required 18,500 visits to monitor 900 people quarantined after coming into contact with infected people, and cost $ 30 million.
«Churches are educating our members to avoid contact with infected people, wash hands with chorine, and not to panic.»
Risk from direct contact with an infected person's body fluids is very low.
There is also evidence that the virus can be spread through sexual contact with an infected person.
To completely eradicate the deadly disease — which most recently swept through parts of Africa last year, devastating communities and killing thousands of people — anyone who may have come in contact with an infected person would get vaccinated.
MRSA is highly contagious and easily spread through direct physical contact with an infected person, making it a growing concern for parents whose children play sports.
Lice don't fly, hop or jump and are only spread through direct contact with an infected person or by using an infected person's hat, bedding or hair brushes, where nits and lice can survive for up to two days.
This is a very common virus and is spread by any physical contact — such as touching, kissing, and shaking hands — with an infected person.
This was as authorities in the state said they were tracking 49 persons alleged to have come in contact with the infected persons.
No fewer than 49 persons alleged to have come in contact with the infected persons are currently being tracked.
«Religious and political groups, spiritual healing centres, families, associations and other bodies should, in the meantime, discourage gatherings and activities that may unwittingly promote close contact with infected persons or place others at risk.»
if you have had surgery in the past, a blood transfusion, a termination of pregnacy (abortion), shared a toothbrush or sharps with an infected person, those are ways of contacting HIV besides sexual intercourse.
Hepatitis A is a viral liver disease transmitted by ingesting contaminated food or water through direct contact with an infected person.
The woman was in contact with an infected person and was put on low - dose Tamiflu as a precaution, but she developed flu anyway.
«Researchers are still working to understand precisely how Zika and other flaviviruses interact with an infected person's immune system,» she said.
The germs that cause bacterial meningitis can be spread by coming into contact with an infected person in the community or after undergoing a neurosurgical procedure in a health care facility.
This is partly because the chance of having sex with an infected person is higher where prevalence of the virus is higher.
Measles is spread through respiration (contact with fluids from an infected person's nose and mouth, either directly or through aerosol transmission), and is highly contagious - 90 % of people without immunity sharing a house with an infected person will catch it.
Ninety percent of those who have heard of Zika know that it can be spread through the bite of a mosquito carrying the virus; however, only 57 percent are aware that Zika can be spread through sexual intercourse with an infected person.
HBV can be contracted through contact with an infected person's blood or other bodily fluid, and the infection can either be acute or chronic.
Direct or indirect contact with an infected person's eye secretions can cause pink eye.
The hepatitis C virus (HCV) is spread through contact with infected blood, such as from shared needles or syringes (you can not get it from casual contact with an infected person).
Any pregnant woman who suspects that she may have been exposed to Zika — either through a mosquito bite or sexual contact with an infected person — should be tested for the virus, the agency stressed.
People that are in contact with the infected person should also be treated even if there are no signs or symptoms of infection.
Those who perform oral sex will get infected in the mouth as the disease infects the areas of skin which come into contact with an infected person.
Even the children can get infected through early contact with an infected person.
Still, there are things you should know if you're thinking about starting a relationship with an infected person.
Herpes is generally caused by unprotected sexual intercourse, anal sex and oral sex with an infected person.
STDs are transmitted through unprotected sexual contact with an infected person.
Cryptosporidiosis is a parasitic disease that is spread to humans and animals through contaminated food or water or contact with an infected person or animal.
Measles is so infectious that it spreads to 90 percent of those who come in contact with an infected person, though symptoms don't occur until at least a week later.

Not exact matches

Once infected with Zika, only about 20 % of people ever show symptoms, which most commonly include fever, rash, joint pain, and red eyes.
But more cases are likely to be reported, the agency said, because some people who may have been infected with the intestinal bug likely have not yet sought medical care.
«We have now clear information that the vaccine needs to be dealt with in a much safer way by using it exclusively in people already infected with dengue before,» Alejandro Cravioto, Chair of the WHO's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization, told reporters.
According to the CDC, at least 53 people in 16 US states have been infected with E. coli after consuming romaine lettuce from the Yuma, Arizona, region.
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.
In addition to the cases in the U.S., the Public Health Agency of Canada says seven people in five provinces were infected with the same outbreak strain of listeria.
An estimated two million people become infected with drug - resistant bacteria in the US each year.
Although the disease is not progressing as quickly as many experts feared, this is primarily due to earlier diagnosis and treatment with drugs such as AZT that prolong the asymptomatic period before the HIV - infected person develops full - blown AIDS.
It's a lot harder, nearly impossible, to infect people with religious stories AFTER they have reached the age of reason.
The only problem is that most of the people with the power to change it back are now hom - ose - xualists themselves, infected with the same disorder.
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.
Tropical diseases like guinea worm, trachoma, and schistosomiasis, which infect millions of people annually, are found most often in places with unsafe drinking water and poor sanitation and hygiene.
Intoxicated by their lust for gold, they ceased to see the people standing in their way; lulled by an overpowering sense of their own Christianity, they drew no boundary between their economic and spiritual exploits; infected with their own technological and military prowess, they couldn't even imagine that they needed a cure.
The total number of people infected with HIV has reached more than one million in Thailand.
The Crawfords desire for entertainment, their need for amusement, their impatience with old ways, and their eagerness always to be attempting some novelty infects the rest of the young people at Mansfield Park.
For most people — it's no big deal, and they live good happy lives and such, but sometimes, this little seed of unreason seeps into the rest of the mind, and infects it with its unreason, causing the person to think, say, and sometimes act in ways that are totally unreasonable.
People are infected with HIV / AIDS or other terminal diseases.
Before he spoke the words that shook Mary, he and Evelyn had personally ministered to hundreds of people in their churches who were affected by or infected with HIV.
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