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  2. Anomalocaris - Wikipedia

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    Anomalocaris ("unlike other shrimp", or "abnormal shrimp") is an extinct genus of radiodont, an order of early-diverging stem-group marine arthropods.. It is best known from the type species A. canadensis, found in the Stephen Formation (particularly the Burgess Shale) of British Columbia, Canada.

  3. List of epidemics and pandemics - Wikipedia

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    Widespread non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer are not included. An epidemic is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time; in meningococcal infections , an attack rate in excess of 15 cases per 100,000 people for two consecutive weeks is considered ...

  4. List of pathogens by size - Wikipedia

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    Lyme disease: length: 10 μm: Borrelia burgdorferi: Alveolate protist: Plasmodium: Malaria: diameter (sexual form) 7-14 μm [1] Fungus [many] [many] width of hyphae: 2-10 μm: Fungus: Bacterium: Yersinia pestis: Plague: length: a few μm: Yersinia: Bacterium: Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Tuberculosis: length: 2-4 μm [2] Alveolate protist ...

  5. Potentially deadly zoonotic virus found in US, sparking ... - AOL

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    "The closest known henipavirus to Camp Hill virus that has caused disease in humans is Langya virus, which crossed from shrews to humans in China," the researcher said. "This indicates that shrew ...

  6. 'The virus wants to live.' California's big COVID spike isn't ...

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    For the two-week period that ended July 20, KP.3.1.1 comprised 17.7% of samples nationwide, up from 6.8% for the prior two-week period, according to estimates from the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

  7. Human virome - Wikipedia

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    The human virome is the total collection of viruses in and on the human body. [1] [2] [3] Viruses in the human body may infect both human cells and other microbes such as bacteria (as with bacteriophages). [4] Some viruses cause disease, while others may be asymptomatic.

  8. Scientists warn ‘zombie deer disease’ could spread to humans ...

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    Since 1995, 178 human deaths have been attributed to the human variant. In 2017, 7,000 to 15,000 CWD-infected animals a year were being consumed by humans, according to the Alliance for Public ...

  9. List of human disease case fatality rates - Wikipedia

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    Human infectious diseases may be characterized by their case fatality rate (CFR), the proportion of people diagnosed with a disease who die from it (cf. mortality rate).It should not be confused with the infection fatality rate (IFR), the estimated proportion of people infected by a disease-causing agent, including asymptomatic and undiagnosed infections, who die from the disease.