Sentence examples for virulent diseases from inspiring English sources

Ebola, one of the most virulent diseases known, is spread through contact with body fluids, including saliva.

Doctors are supposed to tell public-health officials about cases of virulent diseases.

Puppies usually are vaccinated against the most virulent diseases, starting at six weeks of age.

The delta, with 57 million people living in crowded conditions, has long played a special role in the transmission of virulent diseases from animals to people.

Other virulent diseases have similar effects; poisonous chemicals can kill even more quickly, although they are not contagious.

Philip Bowring ("Is Fear Spreading Faster Than SARS?," Op-Ed, April 8) helped put this disease in perspective by suggesting that fear of SARS may be more appropriately directed toward other, more virulent diseases.

On the other hand, low transmission rates in low-density host species select for less virulent disease; decreased virulence prolongs the life of the host and thus the time period for successful transmission between hosts.

By better understanding the on-farm epidemiological dynamics of an increasingly virulent disease, improved methods for surveillance, prevention, and virulence management can be developed.

On the one hand, we have our medical shield against virulent disease collapsing.

"END is the most virulent disease known to birds on the planet, essentially what hoof-and-mouth disease is to livestock," said Larry Hawkins, a U.S.D.A. spokesman.

Gates enthuses about his work to defeat malaria and his aim for it to become the second virulent disease, after smallpox, to be eradicated.