pathogen
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"We're dealing with a pathogen that is really hard to work in the laboratory," Diez-Gonzalez said.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
"A future in which pathogen samples and information move quickly, without needless delay; and in which the benefits that come from them reach the people who need them most, fairly and in time."
From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026
“If there was ever a question about whether there was a pathogen in our products,” McAfee later told me, “I’d be the first one to recall immediately, voluntarily.”
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
The deepest mystery of the plague is why this bacterium—in normal times a pathogen of wild rodents—erupted to cause some of the most world-altering disease outbreaks on record.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Most human groups are a scattershot mix of HLA profiles, which means that almost always some people in the group will not get sick when exposed to a particular pathogen.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
States can continue to report information on other pathogens to FoodNet, but they are no longer required to do so.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
“Cyclospora is one of the most notoriously difficult pathogens to detect in agricultural matrices.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
FoodNet used to monitor and track Cyclospora and other pathogens, like Listeria.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
This allowed them to identify traces of several pathogens, including Yersinia pestis, the bacterium responsible for plague, and Borrelia recurrentis, which causes louse borne relapsing fever.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 2026
In contrast to chemicals, insect pathogens are harmless to all but their intended targets.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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Common Senses: Path ("Feeling")
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