Word: pathogenicity
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...interested in] the biological concerns relating to our vulnerability and the vulnerability of livestock in terms of pathogen attack,” he said. “Not knowing what the path is, or not having a vaccine, how do we protect ourselves...
...altering the surface tension properties in pathogen-laden droplets in the lungs, we could affect the number of pathogenic bioaerosols exhaled when you breath, cough or talk,” he said. Edwards explained that the saline solution would make the small pathogen droplets larger and less likely to remain in the air, causing them to “fall out” and greatly reducing the number of pathogens exhaled...
...individuals produced approximately 98 percent of the pathogen-laden droplets...
...high-producing subjects, inhaling the saline solution reduced the number of pathogen-laden droplets that were exhaled by 72 percent...
Supporters of the inoculation program say the danger of a smallpox attack is still real. The CIA stands by its 2002 assertion that North Korea may have the smallpox pathogen--though U.S. officials tell TIME that intelligence is even less reliable than what the CIA had on Iraq's smallpox program. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz last month ordered an expansion of the Pentagon's smallpox-inoculation program. And HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson vowed as recently as January to continue pushing civilian smallpox vaccinations. But that may not last. A senior Thompson adviser, Donald Henderson--who ran the World...