And smallpox is viciously talented at favoring the mutation: Unlike the plague, it predominantly kills children, preventing the nonresistant gene from being passed on.
Most influenza outbreaks disproportionately kill juvenile, elderly, or already weakened patients; in contrast the 1918 pandemic predominantly killed previously healthy young adults.
A deadly Saudi-led coairstrikeirsthate thit hit a wedding in Yemen on Monday predominantly killed women and children, according to UN officials who spoke with VICE News.
As an intracellular pathogen, Salmonella Paratyphi is predominantly killed via the mononuclear phagocytes involved in cellular immunity.
Application of low doses (50-100 nM) of latrunculin B (Lat B) during the maturation of somatic embryos predominantly killed suspensor cells while leaving the cells in meristematic centres alive, indicating differential sensitivity of actin in the two cell types.
The bomb in Malegaon exploded in a predominantly Muslim neighborhood, killing four people.
The Séléka terrorised the predominantly Christian population, killing men, women and children until they were forced from power in January 2014 and took refuge in the north.
The riots broke out after a train carrying mostly Hindus was set on fire at the station in Godhra, a predominantly Muslim area, killing 59 people.
From 10 March 2012, it had carried out an estimated 16 attacks in predominantly Christian Kenya, killing at least 317 people prior to Thursday, according to a count by the Mail & Guardian Africa website.
In Baghdad, a bomb went off in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood, killing three police commandos and a civilian, and wounding 24 police officers and 5 civilians, the police and medical officials said.
