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When will it stop? When highly pathogenic strains localized in wild birds are once again transformed into a low-pathogenic one according to the law of nature.

Dmitry Lvov

The problem is that, just like real viruses, we can't stamp out computer strains. Viruses never go away, and what we don't need is 1 million virus signatures in virus scanners.

Paul Robertson

It could reduce the mutation level ... you are less likely to have widespread mutation than if you had 20 strains hop-scotching across Asia.

Michael Perdue

These weapons were extraordinarily potent. Some of them were actually engineered, genetically, to become more lethal than the strains in nature.

Jonathan Tucker

They're not asking for a bigger military and a lot of us are surprised by that. We see the strains on the current forces - we need to grow the force to reduce the strain.

Michele Flournoy

Humans don't have resistance to H5N1, and currently vaccines to H5N1 are still being developed. And, the available evidence shows that the most recent strains isolated from humans in Asia are no longer sensitive to inhibition by the amantadine family of drugs.

Robert Webster

And what this paper in the Lancet really attests to is the need for us to have really good surveillance for the emergence of drug resistant influenza, and the emergence of novel strains or new strains of influenza, so that we can move quickly to prevent the spread of these influenza viruses when they occur.

Tom Skinner

Traditional vaccines base their protection on the antibodies they produce against the virus, but the antibodies only protect against very, very similar strains. They don't have the capacity of covering strains if they mutate.

Dr. Suresh Mittal

The closest match is a strain identified in ducks in China earlier this year. It is not so similar to the strains from Romania and Turkey.

Debby Reynolds

Although political strains remain a short-term threat, investors should shrug off this issue and revert to economic fundamentals and stock selections.

Rakpong Chaisuparakul

Chase paid top dollar and this is going create substantial strains on Chase. There's tremendous execution risk going forward. I think it's going to be a very difficult cultural fit.

Charles Peabody

A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.

Boy George

Besides the physical strains I realized men can be pigs to women even when it's a man dressed as one.

Michael Rosenbaum

In some cases, we classify a strain by the presence or absence of a biomarker. And sometimes we see the same biomarker proteins, but at varying levels, in different strains.

Facundo Fernandez

I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.

William Jones

They're starting to use more oil every year, and it's putting strains on the supply picture, ... If they keep growing the way they are now, the demand will keep up.

Michael Covington

Breeding birds pass their harmless strains to each other and the virus mutates.

Laurie Garrett

Voters would find it a strained argument to believe that the senator who prides herself on intelligence and knowledge of detail can't recall any details in this case. It just strains credulity.

Jonathan Tasini

Such storage of virus strains resemble duplicating machines in that we can quickly copy and update any prevailing flu virus on the basis of those established arenas.

Wang Xiaofang

The complete sequence of the 1918 virus, demonstrating its avian origin, and focusing on those mutations that differentiate avian from human strains will be immensely helpful as we try to understand the factors that govern the epidemic behavior of the current crop of avian H5 viruses.

John Treanor

Once pandemic strains are widespread, it doesn't make any sense to impose travel restrictions. You simply can't contain the flu with travel restrictions.

Ira Longini

Even though we're hoping that we're past the peak for this early phase of the season, in past years we have seen flu come back, ... And we've also seen new strains emerge late in the season. So it's still important to be vigilant.

Dr. Julie Gerberding

We are already witnessing major strains in many of our developing countries.

Ifzal Ali

[Peter, a muscle-bound 25-year-old Nigerian with knockout power but very little finesse, entered the ring to the strains of] The Harder They Come, ... the harder they come, the harder they fall, one and all.

Jimmy Cliff

We are one of the fastest-growing school districts in the state. Not only does that rapid of growth put strains on your facilities, it also puts strains on everything else in support services.

Teal Britton

He strains his conversation through a cigar.

Hamilton Wright Mabie

We are seeing a huge increase in all import bills. Some of them are beginning to feel pressure on the external balance of payments. Fiscal strains in India, Indonesia, Bangladesh are particularly huge.

Ifzal Ali

If necessary, even before a pandemic, we'll start making fresh vaccine strains. We will be following it along, and hopefully be keeping up with it. If, when a pandemic strikes and it is H5, we'll pounce on that virus immediately.

Dr Jim Robertson

In the laboratory, this compound has been able to block the virus -- all the virus strains that we have tested -- from replicating.

Amy Patick

This new technology should help provide better global influenza surveillance by making it easier for more laboratories to swiftly identify severe flu strains, which in turn may aid health officials to stem potential flu epidemics and even pandemics.

Kathy Rowlen

The states in this region, in a sense, have been fortunate, but the area's companies are becoming too large and important to rely on a continuation of good luck. The rapid growth of the entire region is placing growing strains on the power grid, and companies have to expect disruptions that will affect their operations.

Cameron Beckman

Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with.

Patricia Arquette

There might be a couple of different strains. One that spawns in streams and one that spawns in the lake.

Mark Liter

He not only understands the defensive concepts we're trying to accomplish, he understands what the offense is thinking, too. So I can position him mentally to take the strains off of our linebackers and the rest of the secondary. I can put all the mental cover-down rules on him.

Duane Akina

There were racial, economic and social divisions - strains that were very real and very important. [The moon landing] was the culmination of forces that brought everyone together to pursue a common goal.

Allan Needell

If an athlete ruptures or strains an [anterior cruciate ligament] in an evening game, we can have a custom, lightweight carbon fiber brace to that athlete by mid-morning the next day. This would have taken weeks in Namath's era.

Dr. John Martin

It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains.

Elizabeth Ii

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.

Edna Ferber