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The 1993 Four Corners hantavirus outbreak was an outbreak of hantavirus disease that occurred in the Four Corners region of the US states in Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. The outbreak marked the discovery of hantaviruses in the Western Hemisphere that could cause disease and revealed the existence of a novel type of disease caused by ...
Ancient “zombie viruses” frozen in melting Arctic permafrost could fuel a new pandemic if unleashed by climate change, scientists have warned.. Global heating is enabling increased human ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has provided health and safety guidelines for pandemics and according to social media users, it's now offering advice on how to survive a zombie ...
Assuming a single zombie spurs the outbreak on Day One, and assuming each zombie has a 90 percent chance of infecting one new victim per day, it would only take 20 days for the infection to become ...
A superspreading event (SSEV) is an event in which an infectious disease is spread much more than usual, while an unusually contagious organism infected with a disease is known as a superspreader. In the context of a human-borne illness , a superspreader is an individual who is more likely to infect others, compared with a typical infected person.
A disease caused by an eponymous coronavirus, carried by ferrets. The disease caused an outbreak in Quebec, largely affecting Montreal's homeless Inuit population, what caused social stigma and the appearance of a nickname, "Inuit disease". It is also possibly present in Mexico.
Scientists have warned a “zombie deer disease” could spread to humans after hundreds of animals were infected with the illness in the US over the last year.. Chronic wasting disease (CWD ...
So far, most only affect amoebas, and none have been known to pose a risk to humans or to crops. Of the already-studied pathogens, at least one anthrax outbreak has been connected to decades-old infected carrion thaw; yet, samples of influenza and smallpox pathogens have failed to survive the thaw even in laboratory conditions.