"The figures drive home how incredibly infectious the virus is, " she said.
Infectious disease specialists believe the virus is very difficult to catch.
The Ebola virus is a highly infectious, often fatal agent spread through direct contact with bodily fluids.
Some scientists think it's caused by an infectious agent, such as a virus.
The deaths have stoked heightened fear of the virus, a highly infectious, often fatal agent spread through direct contact with bodily fluids.
However, since people with the flu virus can be highly infectious despite showing no symptoms, it would be almost impossible to create an effective quarantine regime.
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Disable the protein and the virus could be no longer infectious.
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But it is certainly possible to say that the virus has caused a transformation of attitudes to infectious disease.
Experts at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases heard how the 'H1N1pdm09' swine flu virus is still sensitive to another antiviral drug Relenza (zanamivir).
Even when we hear of the impact in Fiji, where within three years of the introduction of US-based television the Western ideal of beauty has caused bulimia in 15% of adolescent girls, and we glimpse a far more infectious and pernicious disease - body hatred - than the measles virus we exported to the colonies in Victorian times, we measure neither the cost to ourselves or to them.
Existing models are based on indirect measures of how infectious an animal is a cow with high levels of the virus in its blood, for instance, is assumed to be able to infect other animals.
The researchers said that people were more infectious at in the early days of catching hepatitis C because they had higher levels of virus.
"Plasmodium is not a simple organism like a bacterium or virus, " says Dr Mohammed Shahabuddin, at the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a co-author on the study published in the journal Science.
Patients on antiretroviral medication are less infectious because the drugs sharply suppress the amount of HIV in the body, meaning people on treatment have less virus to transmit.
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