Sentence examples for lethal infectious from inspiring English sources
Lassa fever is caused by Lassa virus, which is classified by virologists as a Biosafety Level 4 pathogen — lethal, infectious, typically with no vaccine and no reliable cure.
Their support can play a catalytic role in helping to defeat this ancient scourge, which is still one of the most lethal infectious diseases.
Haiti's health system was already in a fragile state and its impoverished population vulnerable to a range of lethal infectious diseases before the earthquake.
I tried to escape, but no one gave me money to study why bees are disappearing, possibly threatening our food supply, or to help stop the spread of lethal infectious diseases.
It seemed that every few years a filmmaker imagined a world in which a virus transformed humans into flesh-eating zombies, or scientists discovered and delivered the cure for a lethal infectious disease in an impossibly short period of time.
If it does, it is possible that the headline-writer's cliché, "a cure for cancer", will come true over the years, just as the antibiotics that followed from the discovery of bacteria swept away previously lethal infectious diseases.The discovery or, rather, the hypothesis that is now being tested is that cancers grow from stem cells in the way that healthy organs do.
His trip had taken on added urgency after a devastating series of deadly infectious disease outbreaks in the years after SARS, including several involving an especially lethal virus, Ebola, in Africa from 2007 to 2009.
— Eric Asimov The New York Times: Wild Pacific salmon have been found to have a lethal, highly infectious virus that was created in densely packed salmon farms.
Anthrax is a highly lethal, acute infectious disease caused by the rod-shaped, Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus anthracis.
Newcastle disease (ND) is a lethal avian infectious disease caused by Newcastle disease virus (NDV) which poses a substantial threat to China's poultry industry.
A widespread and potentially lethal human infectious disease, at its peak malaria infested every continent, except Antarctica.
