pathogen
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Davji Bhimji Atellah, KMPDU's secretary general, said the union "will not sit back and watch Kenya be treated as a containment colony for a lethal pathogen that we did not generate".
From BBC • Jun. 22, 2026
“They couldn’t find the pathogen in our milk,” McAfee told me.
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
To investigate how the body manages cytokine levels, the researchers used a mouse model of systemic inflammation caused by the pathogen Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.
From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 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
Vocabulary lists containing pathogen
Common Senses: Path ("Feeling")
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