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Recent Examples of pathogenic
Petal blight is the principle pathogenic scourge of camellias.
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Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 16 Jan. 2025
While many avian influenza viruses can infect poultry, their behavior in those hosts classifies the virus as either highly pathogenic or low pathogenic.
—Kimberly Dodd, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2025
Plymouth, Massachusetts, officials alerted the public on Sunday that more than 60 birds found dead at Billington Sea are suspected to have died of highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu.
—Greg Wehner, Fox News, 20 Jan. 2025
This tissue effectively seals off the wound from entrance of pathogenic organisms.
—Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 18 Jan. 2025
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Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 16 Jan. 2025
While many avian influenza viruses can infect poultry, their behavior in those hosts classifies the virus as either highly pathogenic or low pathogenic.
—Kimberly Dodd, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2025
Plymouth, Massachusetts, officials alerted the public on Sunday that more than 60 birds found dead at Billington Sea are suspected to have died of highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu.
—Greg Wehner, Fox News, 20 Jan. 2025
This tissue effectively seals off the wound from entrance of pathogenic organisms.
—Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 18 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pathogenic
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On July 30, Ray updated her fans again, revealing her diagnosis of infective endocarditis, a severe heart infection.—
Jessica Lynch,
Billboard,
31 July 2024
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Hospitalizations for strokes related to opioid use and infective endocarditis, a life-threatening infection of the heart’s lining and valves, increased in people under 45 from 2006 through 2015, coinciding with the opioid epidemic’s onset, the authors added.—
Elizabeth Cooney,
STAT,
23 May 2024
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And existing immunity could, for a time, still buffer against an infectious deluge, especially from pathogens that remain quite rare globally.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
28 Jan. 2025
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This leaves the people who drink it vulnerable to infectious microbes or potentially other toxic contaminants.—
Bill Sullivan,
The Conversation,
27 Jan. 2025
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Or that having acne means your relationship must be toxic?—
Charles Trepany,
USA TODAY,
29 Jan. 2025
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The intense firestorms that ripped through thousands of homes burned a number of household items that become toxic when exposed to heat, including car batteries, ammunition, propane tanks, pesticides and cleaning products.—
Ryan Fonseca,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Jan. 2025
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Here a book worth considering is ‘From third world to first’ - Lee Kwan Yew's first person story of transforming Singapore from a pestilential swamp into a metropolis.—
Mike O'Sullivan,
Forbes,
17 Dec. 2024
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And to make matters worse, crime rates have risen, demonstrations by taxi drivers have turned violent, and a bungled garbage collection policy has blanketed Luanda with waste and a pestilential stench.—
Ricardo Soares De Oliveira,
Foreign Affairs,
28 Oct. 2015
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Avocado oil reduces unstable harmful molecules (free radicals) in rodent brains and increases the presence of antioxidant molecules.1 6.—
Amy Brownstein, MS, RDN,
Verywell Health,
31 Jan. 2025
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Wear sunglasses that block 100% of UVA and UVB rays to protect your eyes from harmful UV exposure, even on cloudy days.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
31 Jan. 2025
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The smoke and ash from structures and cars can contain more than a hundred toxic chemicals and poisonous gases, according to state officials.—
Tony Briscoe,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Jan. 2025
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The bacteria survived, protected and fed by the fungus—and the fungus scored a poisonous partner.—
Molly Herring,
WIRED,
26 Jan. 2025
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Indeed, in early January, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said none of the vaccines available on the market matched the current virulent strain found in the most recent outbreak.—
Julie Creswell,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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No vaccine has yet emerged that perfectly matches the current virulent strain, according to the USDA.—
Laurent Belsie,
The Christian Science Monitor,
22 Jan. 2025
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Indeed, the technology is transforming so quickly that organizations may not even recognize potential threats or vulnerabilities until they are exposed in a malignant fashion.—
Dr. Sai Balasubramanian, M.D., J.D.,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
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The decision, lauded by consumer advocacy groups, comes a full 25 years after scientists at the agency determined that rats fed large amounts of the artificial color additive were much more likely to develop malignant thyroid tumors than rats who weren’t given the food coloring.—
Ryan Fonseca,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Pathogenic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pathogenic. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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