Human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV ) is a lentivirus ( a member of the retrovirus family ) that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome ( AIDS ), a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive.

Human chitinases may explain the link between some of the most common allergies ( dust mites, mold spores-both of which contain chitin ) and worm ( helminth ) infections, as part of one version of the hygiene hypothesis ( worms have chitinous mouthparts to hold the intestinal wall ).

Human CPXV infections are commonly described in relation to contact with diseased domestic cats, sometimes directly from rats or domesticated house mice.

Human infections usually remain localized and self-limiting but can become fatal in immunosuppressed patients.

Interferon-alpha used intranasally was shown to be effective against Human rhinovirus infections.

Pleconaril is not currently available for treatment of Human rhinoviral infections, as its efficacy in treating these infections is under further evaluation.

Human infections were transmitted for the first time worldwide, from Africa and Eurasia to the Americas and vice versa.

Human infections are most common in Asia, Africa, South America, or the Middle East.

Human infections with these viruses are typically incidental, as humans are unable to replicate the virus to high enough titres to reinfect arthropods and thus continue the virus life cycle-man is a dead end host.

Human respiratory syncytial virus ( RSV ) is a virus that causes respiratory tract infections.

Human metapneumovirus accounts for approximately 10 % of respiratory tract infections that are not related to previously known etiologic agents.

Hospital acquired infections with Human Metapneumovirus have been reported.

Human cases in Russia increased with the infections during and after WWI.

Human infections outside endemic areas may result from ingesting pickled fish or sushi made from fish imported from endemic areas.

Human infections occur in parts of Europe, northern Africa, Cuba, South America, and other locales.

Human infections with certain Bunyaviridae, such as Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus, are associated with high levels of morbidity and mortality, consequently handling of these viruses must occur with a Biosafety level 4 laboratory.

Human papillomavirus infection is a major cause of cervical cancer, although most HPV infections do not cause cancer.

This type of relationship also connects HIV infection and a host of " opportunistic " bacterial ( e. g. mycobacterial ( Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Mycobacterium avium ), fungal ( e. g. candidiasis ), protozoal ( e. g. toxoplasmosis ), and viral ( e. g. Human Papilloma Virus ) infections and possibly viral-caused malignancies ( Kaposi's Sarcoma ).

Under current United States law, bio-agents which have been declared by the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services or the U. S. Department of Agriculture to have the " potential to pose a severe threat to public health and safety " are officially defined as " select agents ".

Human stubbornness may have caused businessman Harvey Conover to lose his sailing yacht, the Revonoc, as he sailed into the teeth of a storm south of Florida on January 1, 1958.

As of 2008, both parties have submitted briefs and responded to the Human Rights Commissions ' inquiries.

* Chief Relationship Officer or CRO – Companies have used this title to mean several different things: ( 1 ) officer responsible for key external relationships including Investor Relations, Government Relations and sometimes Public Relations or Communications ; ( 2 ) alternate term for Chief Human Resources Officer ; ( 3 ) alternate term for Chief Networking Officer

Human fecal matter and urine have high percentages of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, carbon, and calcium.

In 1924, Chicago was the first American city to have a homosexual-rights organization, the Society for Human Rights.

For example, in the 1919 book Chemistry of Human Life physician George W. Carey states that, " Health depends on a proper amount of iron phosphate Fe < sub > 3 </ sub >( PO < sub > 4 </ sub >)< sub > 2 </ sub > in the blood, for the molecules of this salt have chemical affinity for oxygen and carry it to all parts of the organism.

In the introduction to A Treatise of Human Nature, Hume writes "' Tis evident, that all the sciences have a relation, more or less, to human nature ...

All members of the Council of Europe ( which includes nearly all European countries, and every member of the European Union ) have signed the European Convention on Human Rights, which protects against double jeopardy.

Human remains, sometimes accompanied by artefacts, have been found in or close to them, which allowed a scientific dating.

Although President Obiang signed a national anti-torture decree in 2006 to ban all forms of abuse and improper treatment in Equatorial Guinea and commissioned the renovation and modernization of Black Beach prison in 2007 to ensure the humane treatment of prisoners, human rights abuses continue. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International among other non-governmental organizations have documented severe human rights abuses in prisons, including torture, beatings, unexplained deaths and illegal detention.

Independent local sources of political information on Eritrean domestic politics are scarce ; in September 2001 the government closed down all of the nation's privately owned print media, and outspoken critics of the government have been arrested and held without trial, according to domestic and international observers, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.

Human rights organisations have raised concerns over the well-being of some of these prisoners.

While the bodies that proposed, argued, agreed upon and ultimately adopted existing international agreements vary according to each agreement, certain conferences, including 1972's United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, 1983's World Commission on Environment and Development, 1992's United Nations Conference on Environment and Development and 2002's World Summit on Sustainable Development have been particularly important.

In response to the early-to-mid-17th century " continental rationalism " John Locke ( 1632 – 1704 ) proposed in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ( 1689 ) a very influential view wherein the only knowledge humans can have is a posteriori, i. e., based upon experience.

Human evolution is characterized by a number of morphological, developmental, physiological, and behavioral changes that have taken place since the split between the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees.

Indeed, these Four Freedoms were explicitly incorporated into the preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which reads, " Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed the highest aspiration of the common people ,...."

These two nations to this day have attained the highest Human Development Indexes within Central America in a traditionally unstable and impoverished region.

Human Rights Watch estimates that as many as 100, 000 people may have been killed in the countryside alone by government troops.

Many modern studies, most notably Sexual Behavior in the Human Male by Alfred Kinsey, have found that the majority of humans have had both heterosexual and homosexual experiences or sensations and are bisexual.

Since the passage of the Human Rights Act 1998, the courts have been able to declare an Act of Parliament to be incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights, but such a declaration of incompatibility has no legal effect unless and until it is acted upon by the government.

Human activities are important in almost all ecosystems.

From the birth of geography as a science during the Greek classical period and until the late nineteenth century with the birth of anthropogeography or Human Geography, Geography was almost exclusively a natural science: the study of location and descriptive gazetteer of all places of the known world.

Once an area of almost tribal allegiance to different schools of thought, today there is wide spread consensus about the structure of personality assessment and its status within the framework of the cross disciplinary progress being made in our understanding of Human Nature.

The best studied example is the association between Human papillomavirus and cervical cancer: almost all cases of cervical cancer are caused by certain strains of this sexually transmitted virus.

Human spoken language makes use of the ability of almost all persons in a given society to dynamically modulate certain parameters of the laryngeal voice source in a consistent manner.

Then, in December 1965 and March 1966, Nature and The Lancet published the first preliminary reports by British cytogeneticist Patricia Jacobs and colleagues at the MRC Human Genetics Unit at Western General Hospital in Edinburgh of a chromosome survey of 315 male patients at The State Hospital outside Carstairs, Lanarkshire — Scotland ’ s only special security hospital for the developmentally disabled — that found nine patients, ages 17 to 36, averaging almost 6 ft. in height ( avg.

Human papillomavirus ( HPV ) infection appears to be a necessary factor in the development of almost all cases ( 90 +%) of cervical cancer .< ref name = Walboomers > HPV vaccines effective against the two strains of this large family of viruses that currently cause approximately 70 % of cases of cervical cancer have been licensed in the U. S, Canada, Australia, and the EU.

Houssay wrote with them the most influential textbook of Human Physiology in Latin America, in Spanish and Portuguese ( the latter was translated by Covian and collaborators ), which, since 1950 has been published in successive editions and used in almost all medical schools of the continent.

He spent almost twenty years of his life on the subject until the publication of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, a great chapter in the History of Philosophy.

The Minbari swiftly destroyed almost all of the EarthForce defenders, with the Human pilots reduced to desperate kamikaze tactics.

Set some time between 33rd and 40th century, it shows the Great Human Empire, now ruled by " Imperial King " Tiberius, having hunted down ( almost ) all remaining cybrids and expanded beyond the boundaries of the Solar system through the so-called Interstellar Transfer Conduit.

Once the Human Factor is implanted in the three Daleks, they become completely human in personality and seem almost child-like, although the Doctor says their mentalities will mature quickly.

Human Rights First recruited and has worked closely with a group of almost 50 retired U. S. generals and admirals, including several former heads of the joint chiefs of staff, who have taken a public stand against torture and official cruelty.

Human Rights First is working with a coalition it organized of almost 50 retired U. S. generals and admirals, including a number of four-star generals and admirals and former heads of the joint chiefs of staff.

Locals responded almost immediately by forming the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations, with legal battles often overshadowing the parades.

Of the over 200 clubs, dating back almost 100 years, the McGill Debating Union earns notoriety for some of its famous alumni, including singer and poet Leonard Cohen and author of the first draft of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights John Peters Humphrey.

Human beings have known of bladder stones (" vesical calculi ") for thousands of years, and have attempted to treat them for almost as long.

He lost his sanity trying to bring Elma back, failing with Human Transmutation, and almost succeeding with use of Golems.

Human travel follows almost two centuries later in 2197.

During his trail, according to Mr Iqbal Haider, secretary-general of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, " Mr Mengal was brought into the courtroom and shoved into an iron cage with bars all around that stood in a corner away from his counsel .” Mengal was released in 2008, after the Pakistan Peoples Party government came in power, after spending almost one and a half year in jail.

Human Rights Watch has stated " There is no evidence that this was a consensual act ," and observed that " The bulk of evidence suggests that the youths were tried on allegations of raping a 13-year-old, with the suggestion that they were tried for consensual homosexual conduct seemingly based almost entirely on mistranslations and on cursory news reporting magnified by the Western press.

In fact it was almost a week later that we began to read more accurate accounts of why the teens were executed from international human rights groups including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission – all of whom have contacts in Iran and ways to confirm news of such incidents from independent sources.

" I don ’ t believe Human Rights Watch has responded to many responsible analyses challenging the war crimes accusations made by Goldstone and also challenging Human Rights Watch ’ s own reports – one on the use of phosphorus, one on the use of drones and one on shooting people almost in cold blood.