Sentence examples for contagious strain from inspiring English sources

Prime Minister Goh Kun mobilized troops in an effort to contain a highly contagious strain of bird flu.

Nearly a million chickens and ducks are to be slaughtered across South Korea to combat a highly contagious strain of bird flu that can infect humans.

Asked about the danger of it spreading on a match day, Allardyce said: "It's a highly contagious strain as everybody knows but I can't comment any further than that".

A Channel 4 documentary on Sunday will claim that analysis of the bodies and of wills registered in London at the time has cast doubt on "facts" that every schoolchild has learned for decades: that the epidemic was caused by a highly contagious strain spread by the fleas on rats.

Sam Allardyce yesterday made the remarkable claim that his Blackburn Rovers team had passed on a contagious strain of swine flu to Chelsea after the Premier League refused to give dispensation to clubs to postpone fixtures if their players had become infected with the illness.

But if human cases are more common than previously thought, it could be both good news and bad news: good if not everyone becomes deathly ill, but not good if more people are infected and might act as the dreaded "mixing vessels" that could let A(H5N1) trade genes with an ordinary human flu virus and produce a new, highly contagious strain that could turn into a pandemic.

Unlike the 2009 pH1N1 scenario, more contagious strains of pandemic influenza require greater care in selection of antiviral release strategy.

Our analysis shows, however, that the impact of antiviral control measures depends not only on the rates of uptake but also may critically depend on the Strategic National Stockpile distribution schedule used to sustain that uptake, particularly for highly contagious strains.

The virus proved to be a less-contagious strain than its European counterpart.

For now, the likelihood of avian flu mutating into a highly contagious human strain is relatively small, said Dr. Scott P. Layne, an associate professor of epidemiology at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has studied avian flu for eight years.

For a more contagious viral strain (R0 = 2.25) only five PICTs would have a probability of over 50% to escape.