Sentence examples for pandemic pathogens from inspiring English sources

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For example, USAid and the Wildlife Conservation Society are creating a surveillance system, Predict, to detect and prevent spillover of potentially pandemic pathogens that can move between wildlife and people – and inform environmental and health policy to prevent it.

The result of their meeting was the Cambridge Working Group consensus statement calling on the US government to "curtail" experiments that create potentially pandemic pathogens, until proper risk assessments have been done.

Harvard University epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch, who has pushed for a moratorium on GOF studies on potential pandemic pathogens, told ScienceInsider he could not comment on the paused studies without seeing details.

► In a feature article in this week's Science, Jocelyn Kaiser profiled epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch of Harvard University, who has risen to prominence in the controversy over risky research in particular, "gain-of-function experiments that create potential pandemic pathogens".

A group calling itself the Cambridge Working Group issued a statement in July saying that studies with "potential pandemic pathogens" should be "curtailed" until the risks and benefits could be evaluated; it has garnered hundreds of signatures.

Even though it is desirable that vaccines for pandemic pathogens would provide protective immunity after a single administration, one cannot conclude from mouse data that a single injection with PELC-formulated H5N1 vaccine would be sufficient in humans.

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To the Editor: Nonpandemic infectious diseases occur with usual incidence during pandemics even though clinical attention is often on the pandemic pathogen.

A notable benefit of Lao FET beyond the current nationwide network of alumni, now numbering 23, is the addition of qualified manpower at the disposal of NCLE to conduct investigations of outbreaks caused by influenza as well as other pathogens, pandemic containment, and mitigation, and project driven field studies and activities that have led to tangible public health contributions.

Both are members of the Cambridge Working Group, an informal organization that last July called for such a risk-benefit analysis of GOF studies on pathogens with pandemic potential.

In October 2014, the U.S. government paused funding for so-called gain-of-function (GOF) research involving pathogens with pandemic potential, to allow for a systematic assessment of its benefits and risks.

This study aimed at evaluating the proportion of SARI/ARDS cases and deaths due to A(H1N1 pdm09 infection and assessing the impact of other respiratory pathogens during pandemic and postpandemic period (2009 2011) in northern Italy as well as searching for unknown viruses in those cases for which diagnosis remained negative.

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