About 10 times more transmissible than even influenza, which is pretty transmissible.
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Non-transmissible diseases While there are plenty of fears about contagious diseases, more than 43% of all deaths worldwide are from non-transmissible diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease.
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Measles is the first we see because it's highly transmissible.
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The disease originated in camels but became transmissible among humans.
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" –Kelly Jewett "Incurable STDs are very much transmissible through oral sex.
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Or is it transmissible as long as it's in the semen?
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There are good reasons that transmissible cancer isn't really a thing.
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"On the other hand, it may be more transmissible than SARS."
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Distemper cannot be contracted by humans, but it is transmissible to canines.
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Look how we freak out today over the threat of anything transmissible.
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There is really no transmissible illness that can boast numbers like that.
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In the past I too would have thought it was easily transmissible.
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The new coronavirus is highly transmissible and will be difficult to squelch.
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The strain is transmissible to humans, but the mortality rate is low.
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"You haven't just released a transmissible virus — you've released a disease," he added.
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Experts say the Wuhan coronavirus is very transmissible, increasing the likelihood of global spread.
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With so few examples, transmissible cancer has been easy to dismiss as an aberration.
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The virus is deadly for poultry but not known to be transmissible to humans.
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COVID-19 belongs to a group of RNA viruses transmissible between animals and people.
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It is among a class of diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, or TSE.
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For an easily transmissible disease, a 2% or 3% fatality rate is extremely dangerous.
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The concern, really, is having a disease that's both highly transmissible and highly virulent.
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For example, researchers have modified the H5N1 bird flu such that it's transmissible to humans.
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Despite its fearsome reputation, Ebola is transmissible only once an infected person is heavily symptomatic.
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That's a prerequisite for transmissible cancer occurring at all: the transmission of full-on tissue.
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One infectious disease expert warned, in 2014, that Ebola might become highly transmissible by air.
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One of these immortal rogue agents is known as the canine transmissible venereal tumor, or CTVT.
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H5N8 detected in France is not transmissible through food and has never been found in humans.
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Zika has previously been known to be transmissible via semen, where it can persist for months.
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Mr. Dugas, he said, refused to believe that any cancer — including his Kaposi's sarcoma — was transmissible.
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Goff noted, however, that cancer is transmissible, but not in the usual sense of the word.
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We need to know anyone who might be in there who is infected and possibly transmissible.
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The disease is also easily transmissible before symptoms appear and can still be contagious for days after.
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The Select Agent Rule provides a natural framework to regulate experiments that create new deadly, transmissible viruses.
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Elephants can also carry tuberculosis, which highly transmissible to humans—even without direct contact, since it's airborne.
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To be clear, condoms are incredibly important for curbing the spread of sexually transmissible infections, or STIs.
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Researchers later discovered that dogs also have a transmissible form of cancer, which spreads when dogs mate.
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Ebola is not transmissible if someone is asymptomatic and usually not after someone has recovered from it.
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That transmissible cancer is so rare is a good thing, clearly, but there's another side to it.
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Preliminary R6503 (number showing how contagious / transmissible a pathogen is) for #Wuhan #nCoV2019 novel #coronavirus: 1.4 - 2.5.
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Health experts still can't pinpoint exactly how far the coronavirus has spread — or how transmissible it is.
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Canine transmissible venereal tumors (CTVT) is a type of contagious canine genital cancer that can spread through mating.
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According to the CDC, it is only rarely transmissible to humans and causes little more than slight illness.
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But as this latest incident points out, imported cases of the virus are still transmissible through sexual contact.
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It could also be used to study the neurological effects of transmissible diseases such as the Zika virus.
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Canine transmissible venereal tumor, or CTVT, is now found in modern dogs from Malawi to Melbourne to Minneapolis.
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"Cholera is a highly transmissible disease through water contamination," says Jean Luc Poncelet, PAHO/WHO Representative in Haiti.
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Scientists don't know how commonly this happens, or how long the virus is transmissible from an infected person.
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Is it really necessary to study how to make H5N1, with its eye-popping mortality rate, more transmissible?
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Pneumonic plague is highly contagious and transmissible between humans — it can be spread when an infected person coughs.
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Called canine transmissible venereal tumor, it originated thousands of years ago in one dog, probably from East Asia.
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One big reason: Covid-19 isn't all that deadly or transmissible, compared to other potential pathogens out there.
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And two, it's the unfortunate carrier of a nasty transmissible form of cancer—one that causes deadly facial tumors.
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One mystery left unsolved by the team is exactly how CTVT managed to become transmissible in the first place.
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One of them, canine transmissible venereal tumour (CTVT), spreads between dogs through the transfer of living cells during mating.
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Zika is a more difficult virus to understand because it is both a mosquito-borne infection and sexually transmissible.
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Cases of transmissible cancer in humans are extreme novelties, occurring rarely in immunocompromised patients, such as those with HIV.
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Transmissible cancer is extreme, and it would seem that in this case it's eliciting a likewise extreme genetic response.
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Measles, pertussis and chickenpox: Close, crowded conditions can ignite outbreaks of these and other highly transmissible, vaccine-preventable diseases.
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After all, it appears to be highly transmissible, and it is probably a lot more lethal than ordinary flu.
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Tanaka's mathematical model shows how an otherwise harmless bacterium like M. tuberculosis is capable of developing into a transmissible pathogen.
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Four of the products had the Sarcocystis cruzi and Sarcocystis tenella parasites (the former of which is transmissible to humans).
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Scientists say there are many questions to be answered about the new virus, including how transmissible and severe it is.
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An animation shows how sharp the recent spike in deaths and illnesses has been: Milder but more transmissible than SARS?
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For example, they would apply to a request to create an Ebola virus transmissible through the air, said Dr. Collins.
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Back in September, researchers in the UK discovered that brain disorders such as Alzheimer's may be transmissible through certain medical procedures.
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In real life, it would likely take several contacts between animals and humans before a virus becomes fully transmissible to humans.
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In 2011, scientists reported experiments that made lethal strains of bird flu transmissible between ferrets (lab-animal proxies for human transmission).
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Think outside the box: Beyond preventative vaccines, scientists are also designing a transmissible treatment for HIV called therapeutic interfering particles (TIP).
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That's a really good thing, unless a few people decide to make human-transmissible smallpox and spread that into the world.
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Since 2009, Weinstein has been petitioning the state to require better safeguards against sexually transmissible infections in the adult film industry.
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But researchers don't know exactly why this year's outbreak is so large or if the virus is more transmissible than usual.
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob is the most common member of a family of disorders that affect people and animals called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.
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Ae says that the 30-year-latency period his team documented is the longest of any confirmed case of transmissible prion disease.
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If you've heard of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (also known as mad cow disease), you've heard of prions.
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Highly virulent and easily transmissible, these viruses emerge from open-air poultry farms and markets of the kind that stretch across Asia.
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Canine transmissible venereal tumor, as the condition is known, was limited at first to a small group of dogs somewhere in Asia.
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Dogs, too, can get a type of contagious cancer called canine transmissible venereal tumor, which jumps from host to host during sex.
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That&aposs said, "there are lots of diseases that are potentially transmissible between humans and animals — too many to count," Teller says.
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Transmissible tumors are rare natural cancer cell lines that live not in petri dishes but in the bodies of animals they infect.
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"We haven't seen anything that appears to be this pathogenic and transmissible since maybe 1918 or 1957," said the U.S. government official.
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But understanding the specific risks to the state center on questions that have not yet been answered: How transmissible is the disease?
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It is only slightly transmissible to humans, and causes only mild illness, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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No needles are required, which, in addition to reducing transmissible infections, is good for those who are squeamish about such things (raises hand).
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Less controversial is the researchers' theory about the canine transmissible venereal tumor (CTVT), a sexually transmitted form of cancer that has spread globally.
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One of these threats is Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD), which is a transmissible cancer that affect the world's largest living carnivorous marsupial.
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The National Institutes of Health experimented and found that easily transmissible COVID-22020 can be infectious all around us for many hours (Reuters).
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The virus, believed to have originated in China's Wuhan province, is thought not to be easily transmissible between humans, though it is possible.
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We simply got lucky that time around, he argued, and a more transmissible pathogen could have easily overwhelmed existing resources for responding to it.
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"There are lots of diseases that are potentially transmissible between humans and animals — too many to count," veterinarian Lori Teller previously told Business Insider.
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"If [the new virus] is indeed the likely cause, and seeded at the market, a key question is how transmissible this is," Koopmans said.
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The new virus could, like SARS, another well-known coronavirus, become less and less transmissible as it spreads around the world, eventually dying out.
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Like SARS and MERS, the virus is thought to have traveled to people from animals and mutated to become transmissible from person to person.
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That number is high because measles is so incredibly contagious; less transmissible diseases, such as polio, need a coverage rate of about 80 percent.
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There has been a long, fierce debate about projects — known as "gain of function" research — intended to make pathogens more deadly or more transmissible.
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With 17 dead of the 18 infected in the most recent outbreak in Kerala, serious concern about new, deadly, easily transmissible strains is warranted.
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And, although CTVT could have arisen on the Asian side of the Bering Bridge, perhaps the emergence of transmissible cancer itself even played a role.
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Producers would also need to pay for and provide performers with regular testing, vaccines against sexually transmissible infections, and protection from exposure to bodily fluids.
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It's now known that several species of shellfish are susceptible to one form of transmissible cancer known as disseminated neoplasia, which is similar to leukemia.
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We do know that the coronavirus is easily transmissible, even by people who show no symptoms, and it is virulent beyond the normal seasonal flu.
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ITALY STATEMENT SAYS CABINET WILL DISCUSS DECLARATION OF STATE OF EMERGENCY DUE TO HEALTH RISK ASSOCIATED WITH 'ONSET OF DISEASES DERIVING FROM TRANSMISSIBLE VIRAL AGENTS'
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Viruses that spill over from animals may not be very transmissible "if they sit deep in the lungs and are not shed easily," she added.
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The Wuhan coronavirus is spreading more like influenza, which is highly transmissible, than like its slow-moving viral cousins, SARS and MERS, scientists have found.
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Given that the infectious agent must be transmissible skin to skin, develop quickly, and survive on fabric, the most likely candidate would be a virus.
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A few years ago, researchers determined that H5N1 (a deadly variant of the bird flu) is as little as one mutation away from becoming human-transmissible.
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They must be quarantined for a few days until doctors can be sure that they haven't caught any transmissible diseases from their time in the cave.
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Could something worse than Spanish flu—deadlier and more transmissible—be biding its time on some vampire bat's fangs, one bite away from patient zero's bloodstream?
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PD: There is a situation, it's a pretty tragic situation, where I believe there is a transmissible cancer that grows near the faces of Tasmanian devils.
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Of course, a living donor is screened for transmissible conditions, but there's the extra concern for the donors themselves and long-term risks to their health.
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We understand from health authorities that the disease does not impact the health of the ducks, and that it is not transmissible from ducks to human beings.
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The time spent with the corpses, sometimes with great intimacy, could result in the spread of transmissible diseases such as Ebola, to which gorillas are extremely vulnerable.
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H5N1 has killed more than half of people it infects, and while it'd likely become less lethal when modified to be more transmissible, it's very, very dangerous.
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Imagine, in a horrific hypothetical example, a scenario in which thousands of unsecured 3D bioprinters were hacked and made to produce deadly transmissible viruses, sparking a global pandemic.
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"It's not that this bacteria is highly transmissible," said Dr. Emil Lesho, director of WRAIR's Multidrug-resistant Organism Repository and Surveillance Network and co-author of the report.
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The instances that may prevent you from donating include if you have a potentially transmissible disease, including an active bacterial infection or a viral infection like hepatitis, for one.
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In 2011, two different groups of researchers announced plans to publish research in which they'd modified H5N1 — in ferrets, not in humans — to make it transmissible through the air.
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This was revealed only recently in a study published in Nature describing a form of transmissible cancer found among three different species of bivalve spread widely across the globe.
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However, survival rates quickly plummet to the single digits when cancer has become metastatic—that is, when the cancer has become transmissible among the myriad systems of the body.
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Johnson's diagnosis offers one of the most potent examples yet of how the deadly and highly transmissible coronavirus has permeated life around the world at every level of society.
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"It's very, very transmissible, and it almost certainly is going to be a pandemic," said Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease.
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By contrast, the highly transmissible H275N13 "swine flu" pandemic of 21 killed about 21918,22009, fewer than seasonal flu normally does, and had a relatively low fatality rate, estimated at .
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We're still a long way off from having a treatment or cure for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, but scientists now have the means to create synthetic human prions in the lab.
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More subtly, though, in species that have the sorts of learnable, and thus transmissible, behaviour patterns known as culture, cultural changes that promote successful reproduction are also likely to spread.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, an immunologist and head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said forecasts based on the seasonal spread of other highly transmissible viruses are misleading.
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While working as a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University, Dr. Metzger discovered that four species of shellfish — including soft-shell clams and bay mussels — had transmissible cancers of their own.
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Infected people do not seem to spread the disease to others, but if it did become transmissible between humans, it could cause a pandemic with an enormously high death rate.
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Of course, all NPIs are socially disruptive and should be used only as a last resort, to control infections that are highly transmissible and dangerous, and have high fatality rates.
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Unlike Ebola, it is a new disease for which we have no countermeasures, it is transmissible through the air, and it is already present in many places around the world.
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"Each time a new strain from bats infects people, it is a new opportunity for a more highly transmissible strain to take off and adapt to a human host," Gurley said.
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The condition, canine transmissible venereal tumor disease, is believed to have sprung into existence 11,000 years ago — as a single cell in a single dog — and has been circulating ever since.
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They came to public attention in the 1990s, when a variant form of the best known of them, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), was shown to be transmissible from cattle to people.
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"People in these areas may also hunt bats for bushmeat, unaware of the risks of transmissible diseases which can occur through touching body fluids and raw meat of bats," he said.
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But while experts said that bumpy response hindered efforts, they also said it was inevitable that the virus was going to spread across the United States, given how transmissible it is.
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Jennifer Vines, deputy health officer for Multnomah County, whose office worked with the CDC on its report, said the investigation did not conclude that tuberculosis is highly transmissible between elephants and people.
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We now also know that during World War I, German agents tried systematically to infect Allied livestock with glanders (a serious bacterial disease, transmissible to humans but mainly affecting horses and mules).
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Tuesday lifted a 2014 temporary ban on funding research involving the flu and other pathogens in which scientists deliberately make them more transmissible or more deadly.
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Later that evening, Zhong Nanshan, a government-appointed respiratory expert, known for fighting SARS 17 years ago, declared on state broadcaster CCTV that the new coronavirus was transmissible from person to person.
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Dr. Ratner said the coronavirus is particularly hard to contain because it is "reasonably transmissible," and some people who don't have a lot of symptoms can still pass the virus to others.
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After the near-perfect rescue, the boys were quarantined for a week at the Chiang Rai Prachanukroh hospital to confirm that they hadn't caught any transmissible diseases from their time in the cave.
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These diseases are also called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, a reference to the hollowed out, sponge-like appearance of the brain (at least when examined under a microscope) in someone who has died from it.
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"It's very, very transmissible, and it almost certainly is going to be a pandemic," Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told The New York Times.
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If genetically engineering viruses such as influenza, MERS, or SARS to be even stronger and more easily transmissible sounds like a recipe for some Contagion-inspired future hell, you're not alone in your fears.
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How it works: Vaccines use dead and weakened viruses to train the body's immune system to attack a pathogen, so it might be possible to engineer those viral vaccines to be transmissible between humans.
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After the near-perfect rescue, the boys were quarantined for a week at the Chiang Rai Prachanukroh hospital to make sure that they hadn't caught any transmissible diseases from their time in the cave.
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In 2018, the intelligence community's Worldwide Threat Assessment warned that a "novel strain of a virulent microbe that is easily transmissible between humans continues to be a major threat," according to CNN's Daniel Dale.
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"Robert Webster, an infectious-disease expert at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, told The Associated Press on Sunday that "it sounds and looks as if it's going to be a very highly transmissible virus.
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The way we avoid catastrophe is by reacting strongly to every new emergent human-transmissible disease that we don't know much about, and throwing tons of resources at containment, vaccine development, treatments, and research.
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"It's very, very transmissible, and it almost certainly is going to be a pandemic," Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, told the New York Times Monday.
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It might be an oversimplification to say that a virus can't be both highly transmissible and highly deadly, but in the movie it seems that this virus was at the extremes of both those variables.
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By making super-viruses that are more pathogenic and easily transmissible, scientists are able to study the way these viruses may evolve and how genetic changes affect the way a virus interacts with its host.
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With oral sex, as soon as your mouth comes into contact with the penis, you could contract STIs transmissible via skin-to-skin contact—like oral and genital herpes, human papilloma virus (HPV), and syphilis.
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Of the 23,800 new cases of gonorrhea diagnosed in the country in 2016, about 75% of them were among men, according to the Annual Surveillance Report on HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmissible infections in Australia.
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"If the H5N1 virus were to change and become easily transmissible from person to person while retaining its capacity to cause severe disease, the consequences for public health could be very serious," WHO said in a statement.
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The goal is to get everyone infected there on treatment to reduce the amount of virus in their bloodstreams to non-transmissible levels and get everyone at high risk of becoming infected on medication that prevents infection.
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Additionally, "easy simplifications" of the biotechnology could be used to generate "a new class of biological weapon," one that is "extremely transmissible to susceptible crop species" -- in other words, an attack to wipe out crops, for example.
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Note: We changed the wording in the headline from "contract" to "develop" to better distinguish between hepatitis that's transmissible and the kind that can result from various causes, including toxins, drugs, alcohol, various nutrient overdoses, viruses, and ischemia.
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There were more than 23,800 new cases of gonorrhea diagnosed in 2016, and about 75% of them were among men, according to the Annual Surveillance Report on HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmissible infections in Australia, published Monday.
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There are likely more incidences of transmissible cancer among higher-level animals, but in every case, the cancer must still overcome those two inescapable hurdles: immune responses and the transmission of actual living tissue from animal to animal.
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The Wuhan coronavirus is "very, very transmissible, and it almost certainly is going to be a pandemic," Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told The New York Times on Sunday.
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The coronavirus is "very, very transmissible, and it almost certainly is going to be a pandemic," Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the US's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told The New York Times on Sunday.
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Health officials now face the prospect of stopping an infection that is usually silent and for which there are no widely available tests; it may be transmissible sexually, yet there may be no sign until a child is born.
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"I'm starting to believe that transmissible cancers are much more common than we have previously thought, particularly in aquatic ecosystems," said Beata Ujvari, an evolutionary biologist at Deakin University in Australia who was not involved in the new study.
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But in 1996, the Superior Court of New Jersey reversed that decision, finding "no impediment, legal or otherwise, to recognizing a physician's duty to warn those known to be at risk of avoidable harm from a genetically transmissible condition".
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The outbreak is beginning to resemble the early stages of the West African Ebola crisis in 2014: a lethal disease normally confined to sparsely populated rural areas has reached crowded cities and is spreading in a highly transmissible form.
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Not only does it help us understand how deadly and transmissible a virus is, "it gets at how there's been such rapid spread of the virus — not just across Wuhan, but to every province in China except for Tibet."
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They explained that while the C580Y mutation does not necessarily make the parasite more drug-resistant, it does have other qualities that make it more risky - notably it appears to be fitter, more transmissible and able to spreading more widely.
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This problem reached a grim milestone in May of this year when, for the first time in the U.S., doctors treated a patient in Pennsylvania infected with a bacteria that harbored a transmissible form of resistance to a last resort antibiotic.
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A containment strategy predicated on keeping certain foreigners out, if swiftly and properly executed, might have bought American authorities some time to prepare for the inevitable domestic outbreaks, but it could never prevent the emergence of such a highly transmissible disease.
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Upon its release, Contagion was mostly lauded by the scientific community (though not uniformly) for its unusually accurate depiction of how a deadly, highly transmissible virus could spread around the globe, affecting everyone from scientists and government leaders to ordinary people.
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As a precaution, American scientists have been making an H7N9 seed vaccine from which an emergency stockpile could be brewed if the virus became both lethal and highly transmissible, said Jacqueline Katz, deputy director of the C.D.C.'s flu division.
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That will probably force development of a second small stockpile of emergency vaccine to be rolled out if the virus becomes more transmissible and threatens to turn into a pandemic, a scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
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Although bird flu strains typically infect poultry, fears are that the flu virus—which is prone to mutation—will change to one that can be transmitted to humans and become a potentially fatal strain that is transmissible among humans, causing a pandemic.
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This isn't disquieting so much because it portends some future likelihood of humans catching cancer from other humans, but because the mechanisms behind these cancers, Tasmanian devil facial tumor disease (DFTD) and canine transmissible venereal tumor (CTVT), are extreme and completely horrifying.
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" The intelligence community's 2018 threat assessment warned that a "novel strain of a virulent microbe that is easily transmissible between humans continues to be a major threat" -- specifically listing a coronavirus, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Coronavirus, as one with "pandemic potential.
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The implications of Ma's statement that the coronavirus is transmissible before symptoms are so important "that in my mind it's absolutely critical that we ourselves see the data, because what goes on over there has implications for what happens here," Fauci said.
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Tom Frieden, who directed the CDC for eight years during the Obama administration, says it's too early to know exactly how transmissible the virus is, how long it lives on surfaces or how many people who get the disease become really sick.
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Thousands of dogs around the world—from Aboriginal camp dogs in Australia to street dogs in Buenos Aires—are affected by an extraordinary type of infectious cancer that causes genital tumors and can jump between individuals known as Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumor or CTVT.
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Shutting them down can be a key part of slowing the spread of easily transmissible viruses so that hospitals are not overrun with sick people, and it can help to buy time to allow for the development of antiviral medications, medical treatments or a vaccine.
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It argues that the center has been a "hotbed" for tuberculosis—according to medical documents cited in the report, 29 of Ringling Bros' elephants (most of them living at the center) had tested reactive to tuberculosis in 2011—a potentially deadly disease that's transmissible to humans.
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Though instances of plague are not uncommon on the island, which usually sees around 400 cases a year, the ongoing epidemic involves mostly cases of pneumonic rather than the more common bubonic plague—and that airborne variety of the disease is significantly more transmissible and deadly.
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One of the agency's top disease modelers, Matthew Biggerstaff, presented the group on the phone call with four possible scenarios — A, B, C and D — based on characteristics of the virus, including estimates of how transmissible it is and the severity of the illness it can cause.
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The estimated 6.7 million residents in the San Francisco Bay Area were ordered to shelter in place, or to stay at home, in an effort to create space amongst the region's occupants and decrease the risk of spreading the virus, which is transmissible by respiratory droplets.
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"Given the Wuhan virus (22021 nCoV) is exponentially more infectious than either SARS or MERS, devastation could be far more as travel, trade and economic activity face a greater scale of disruptions from larger and more transmissible outbreak," said Vishnu Varathan, head of economics and strategy for Asia.
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"With these index cases, it's not just getting infected with an animal virus, but rather, that virus probably has to do things to become transmissible in people, and it has to get out of that first person and get into other people to really become an outbreak," Friedrich said.
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The letter should point out that COVID-19 is transmissible even when people aren't showing any symptoms, that the CDC has suggested remote working as a way to stop the virus' spread, and to mention any other companies or public leaders who have asked employees to work from home.
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William Schaffner prof of preventive medicine, VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY we have a spectrum, sars was very severe and very transmissible, mers, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome virus was also very serious, but not very transmissible, what we have learned so far by this virus, many infected, many also get better and go home, surely, with 6 death so far, but not as bad as the sars virus The Chinese scientists were wonderful, they very rapidly identify this virus and documented it was new, they sequenced in genome and made that available to the world community, there are now scientists around the world working on a rapid test, and work on the vaccine has already begun.
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"We are evaluating, as part of the AABB Transfusion Transmissible Disease committee, whether to ask donors to self-defer for 28 days following their return to the U.S. if they traveled to areas with ongoing Zika outbreaks," said Dr. Susan Stramer, vice president of scientific affairs at the American Red Cross.
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However, because disease is not really transmissible between dogs and humans, or there's not that much zoonotic potential between dog saliva and human saliva, they're clean in that, you know, making out with your dog, you won't contract the common cold, but making out with a person, perhaps you can.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Thursday during an online chat with NBA star Stephen Curry that the coronavirus is "very much more transmissible than flu and more importantly, it's significantly more serious" -- with a mortality rate approximately 10 times higher than the 0.1% for the flu.
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Cases of transmissible prion diseases are rare, but their long incubation periods (prion disease can hide in the brain for 30 years before it starts to inflict serious damage) and high resistance to treatment are cause for serious concern, "posing unprecedented and challenging problems to disease control and public health," as the researchers write in their study.
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"People also need to be reminded that risk and dynamic of cross-species or human-to-human transmission of coronaviruses are also affected by many other factors," like the host's immune response, the speed with which the viruses can multiply inside human lungs, and the potential mutations that might make the virus more virulent or transmissible.
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Epidemiologists often use this tool to assess new flus, for example, and guide decision-making: If an illness isn't very severe (and kills only a small percentage of people), but it's highly transmissible, it can still cause devastating effects — if something affects millions, the small percentage it kills will still be a high number of fatalities.
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CDC Director Robert Redfield and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci raised concerns at a Tuesday press conference that China has not provided the data to back up its claims that the virus may be transmissible from person to person before a patient exhibits any symptoms — in the so-called asymptomatic stage.
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The most lethal pandemic to hit the United States was the 1918 Spanish flu, which was responsible for about 675,000 American deaths, according to estimates cited by the C.D.C. The Institute for Disease Modeling calculated that the new coronavirus is roughly equally transmissible as the 1918 flu, and just slightly less clinically severe, and it is higher in both transmissibility and severity compared with all other flu viruses in the past century.
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Most recently, multiple human studies of treatment for HIV that suppresses the virus to undetectable levels in the blood and sexual fluids has given birth to a novel take-away moniker — "U = U" — an undetectable virus is non-transmissible — and has been endorsed by the International AIDS Society, by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield — remove any excuse for keeping those laws on the books.
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