Word: infectives
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same as more common examples of immunity. The body's protective countermeasures against measles and mumps are absolute. Years after exposure, there is no hint within the body of the foreign agents that cause those diseases. After children become immune to mumps, they can no longer infect other people...
...when they combined AZT, ddI and another reverse transcriptase inhibitor, pyridinone, the virus could no longer replicate and infect other cells...
...know whether this is normal: at least it seems to be the endpoint of a grand, grand history of humanity's greatest emotion. And one thing you learn about in this country is fear. You collect and nurse it, and unwillingly let it infect everything...
...thanks to a century of advances in genetic engineering, that was no more threatening than a common cold. Her doctor used a computer to analyze the genetic makeup of the aberrant cells and generate a custom-made virus that would search out the wayward tissue. Then the virus would infect the malignant cells, injecting a handful of its own regulatory genes. These viral snippets would reprogram the microscopic tumor's DNA, shutting down its unruly growth pattern and transforming the cancer cells back into healthy ones...
...Asian tiger mosquito, which hitchhiked to the U.S. in 1985 aboard used tires shipped from Japan, has moved up from annoying to potentially deadly. The virus that causes Eastern equine encephalitis, a deadly brain disease that can infect humans, has been detected in mosquitoes in Florida. That's troublesome, because the more aggressive Asian tigers feed on a broader range of animals than their American cousins. Tigers are found in the Eastern U.S., as far north as Ohio...