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- adjective Extremely
virulent .
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The new, "hypervirulent" strain is much more likely to be associated with more severe disease, sometimes requiring surgical intervention.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The new, "hypervirulent" strain is much more likely to be associated with more severe disease, sometimes requiring surgical intervention.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Analysis of the full genome of the "hypervirulent" strains and an older strain showed the bacteria has acquired genes which enable it to survive better in the environment, spread more easily and make patients more severely ill.
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Analysis of the full genome of the "hypervirulent" strains and an older strain showed the bacteria has acquired genes which enable it to survive better in the environment, spread more easily and make patients more severely ill.
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Instead of millions of vulnerable hosts to evolve within back then, we now have billions of chickens intensively confined in factory farms, arguably the Perfect Storm environment for the emergence and spread of hypervirulent, so-called "predator-type" viruses like H5N1.
Kathy Freston: Flu Season: Factory Farming Could Cause A Catastrophic Pandemic Kathy Freston 2010
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Instead of millions of vulnerable hosts to evolve within back then, we now have billions of chickens intensively confined in factory farms, arguably the Perfect Storm environment for the emergence and spread of hypervirulent, so-called "predator-type" viruses like H5N1.
Kathy Freston: Flu Season: Factory Farming Could Cause A Catastrophic Pandemic 2010
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Instead of millions of vulnerable hosts to evolve within back then, we now have billions of chickens intensively confined in factory farms, arguably the Perfect Storm environment for the emergence and spread of hypervirulent, so-called "predator-type" viruses like H5N1.
Kathy Freston: Flu Season: Factory Farming Could Cause A Catastrophic Pandemic 2010
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Instead of millions of vulnerable hosts to evolve within back then, we now have billions of chickens intensively confined in factory farms, arguably the Perfect Storm environment for the emergence and spread of hypervirulent, so-called "predator-type" viruses like H5N1.
Flu Season: Factory Farming Could Cause A Catastrophic Pandemic 2010
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These are rapidly evolving pathogens and it could be that it's a hypervirulent strain.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Toronto 2011
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These are rapidly evolving pathogens and it could be that it's a hypervirulent strain.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Toronto 2011
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