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How to use the word pathogen in a Sentence?

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Achieving higher levels of population immunity globally, either through infection and/or vaccination, may limit the impact of SARS-CoV-2 on morbidity and mortality, but there is little doubt that this virus will remain a permanently established pathogen in humans and animals for the foreseeable future. As such, long-term public health action is critically needed, while eliminating this virus from human and animal reservoirs is highly unlikely, mitigation of its devastating impact on morbidity and mortality is achievable and should continue to be a prioritized goal.

International Health Regulations

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We know there are going to be cases, with the flu, we've had experience with flu pandemics before. So we know typically the way they behave. This has been an evolving situation with a totally novel pathogen.

Arnold Monto

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Despite some shifting numbers, neither our vaccines nor our immune systems are failing us, or even coming close. Vaccine effectiveness isn’t a monolith, and neither is immunity. Staying safe from a virus depends on host and pathogen alike; a change in either can chip away at the barriers that separate the two without obliterating them, which is exactly what we’re seeing now.

The Atlantic

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If you see a rat, you should assume it has some sort of pathogen.

Claudia Riegel

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Deliberately infecting volunteers with a known human pathogen is never undertaken lightly, however, such studies are enormously informative about a disease. It is really vital that we move as fast as possible towards getting effective vaccines and other treatments for COVID-19, and challenge studies have the potential to accelerate and de-risk the development of novel drugs and vaccines.

Peter Openshaw

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

One of the things that came out was that this was primarily a respiratory infectious pathogen and it was primarily transmitted by droplets and also by aerosols.

Abraar Karan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Large farrow-to-finish projects with high animal density are a long-term concern because once a pathogen enters, it’s very difficult to control or eliminate.

Gordon Spronk

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

This is a respiratory pathogen and so it is important that what we know fits into the guidance that we have, which is why a comprehensive package of interventions are required to be able to stop transmission, this includes not only physical distancing. It includes the use of masks where appropriate in certain settings, specifically where you can't do physical distancing, and especially for health care workers.

Maria Van Kerkhove

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The unknown viruses that we have discovered are actually just the tip of the iceberg, if we want to protect humans from viruses or avoid a second outbreak of new infectious diseases, we must go in advance to learn of these unknown viruses carried by wild animals in nature and then give early warnings. If we dont study [ the viruses ], there will possibly be another outbreak, she added. Shi Zhengli is seen inside the P4 laboratory in Wuhan, the capital of China's Hubei province, on February 23, 2017. ( AFP via Getty Images) A renowned virologist, Shi is best known for her work with bat coronaviruses at her lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology( WIV). She discovered the natural bat reservoir for the SARS pathogen that spread in southern China from 2002 to 2003. Rumors in mid-April claimed that Shi had been.

Shi Zhengli

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The blood samples taken from the bats contain antibodies, which they produced to fight off the virus, these could serve as the basis for the development of a vaccine or a plasma treatment against a new pathogen.

Wang Linfa

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Because they huddle together and take care of each other, it doesnt take long for a pathogen to get passed from one end of the colony to the other.

Bruce Patterson

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

No matter the origin, evolution in nature and spillover to humans, accidental release from a lab, or deliberate release or genetic manipulation of a pathogen in the lab the way you develop countermeasures is the same, since one can never say 100% for anything, I think we always need to be aware of all possibilities in order to contravene. But the response to develop what is needed to respond, control and eliminate the outbreak remains the same.

Gerald Keusch

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It's easy to point the finger at the host species, but actually it's the way we interact with them that has led to the pandemic spread of the pathogen.

Andrew Cunningham

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The patient tested positive for coronavirus... She is the first patient in North Macedonia to have tested positive for this pathogen.

Venko Filipce

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Our ancestors lived in a different environment and had a different lifestyle and diet, and it is therefore interesting to find out how this is reflected in their microbiome,' it can help us understand how pathogens have evolved and spread over time, and what makes them particularly virulent in a given environment. At the same time, it may help predict how a pathogen will behave in the future, and how it might be contained or eradicated.

Hannes Schroeder

Found on CNN
4 years ago

A lot of people just spray like a blessing and then wipe, the compound gets caught up in the cloth, so it's not as effective. But the wipes have the right dose and they have to dry, which helps kill the pathogen.

Charles Gerba

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We don’t have the ability to produce vaccines to a novel pathogen within months rather than decades and we don’t have the global public health capabilities that would allow us to rapidly identify and control an outbreak before it becomes a pandemic.

Eric Toner

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

In some areas, like E. coli O157 : H7, concerted strategies by government and industry have sharply reduced the number of illnesses associated with that pathogen.

Mike Taylor

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Disease X represents the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown.

World Health Organization

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We have demonstrated that two of the three most serious banana fungal diseases have become more virulent by increasing their ability to manipulate the banana’s metabolic path ways and make use of its nutrients, this parallel change in metabolism of the pathogen and the host plant has been overlooked until now and may represent a ‘ molecular fingerprint ’ of the adaptation process.

Mr Stergiopoulos

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The particular question is, what was responsible? Actually what pathogen, what bacteria formed the Great Plague outbreak in the 17th century? it doesn't seem to come back, so something changed in the way people were living. People say the Great Fire of London in 1666 had something to do with the ending of Great Plague events, but through the scientific studies we can do these days on DNA from samples of these skeletons, we might be able to tell what pathogen is responsible for that outbreak and perhaps why it stopped.

Jay Carver

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Regulation of tattoo parlors and tattoo artists is left to the states, and the requirements for operating vary widely from very minimal (bloodborne pathogen training) to fairly complex (hundreds of hours of apprenticeship).

Michi Shinohara

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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