Sentence examples for more easily transmissible from inspiring English sources

Fouchier's group worked with the H5N1 avian influenza strain; Kawaoka took the gene for hemagglutinin (HA) from that virus which he says was his key interest and placed it in the H1N1 virus that caused the 2009 pandemic; he then set out to find out which changes make the resulting virus more easily transmissible among ferrets.

The rising numbers have raised fresh fears that the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) virus has adapted and is becoming more easily transmissible between humans, which could result in global spread.

He focuses recurrently on the NBO (next big one) and how, if HIV or Ebola virus were more easily transmissible, no one would remain to read his book.

But what mutations would make the virus more easily transmissible?

Experts say that for a pandemic to occur, the virus would have to change in a way that makes it more easily transmissible from birds to people and from person to person.

Had Ebola been more easily transmissible, the delays in decision-making and action that have come in for criticism during this outbreak could have resulted in "very, very large" numbers of deaths, he said.

In this regard, starting from the hypothesis of Boorom, more virulent and easily transmissible Blastocystis spp. may be the cause of the increase in the prevalence of IBDs in the 1990s in Europe [ 33] which indicates use of more sensitive methods such as polymerase chain reaction and culture in detection of more virulent types of this parasite.

New research shows the H5N1 flu virus could become easily transmissible among people if it acquired just five genetic mutations.

If it mutated in such a way that it was transmitted more easily, it could cause a pandemic that threatened the lives of millions of people.One reason why scientists believed that bird flu had not yet become highly transmissible is that the deadly H5N1 form of the virus has had difficulty infecting the cells that line the nose and upper parts of the lungs.

However, she says, if the virus were easily transmissible, "we would expect to see far more cases than we've seen so far".

However, the possibility that D222G variants are transmissible and might sustain small epidemics of their own or that they might arise more easily from specific, phylogenetically related backgrounds, is intriguing.