Imagine going on vacation to a foreign country and when you come home you are horribly sick. Your head hurts‚ you have a high fever‚ and you start vomiting. Chances are that you may have contracted the Ebola virus. Ebola was first discovered in the village of Yambuku(1) near the Ebola River in Zaire. Since its discovery‚ there have been four outbreaks of this disease. There are three known strains‚ of variations of ebola. There is no known cure for this disease(2).Ebola has become one of the
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BIO204 02-25-13 Discussion One Topic(s): Each year the influenza virus will infect anywhere between 5-20% of our Nations population and upwards of 200‚000 will become hospitalized for further treatments from complications. Most cases can occur between the months of October through May among those January and February is the peak months of the flu season. People most at risk of complications are the elderly above 65 years or older‚ children younger than 2 years old‚ and anyone who have chronic
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inflammation of both the tonsils and the pharynx (located at the back of the throat). It occurs due to viral or bacterial infections. In rare cases a fungus or parasite can also cause tonsillitis. Other common causes are Adenoviruses‚ Influenza virus‚ Herpes Simplex virus and Enteroviruses. There are 4 types of Tonsillitis. Acute Tonsillitis is an acute inflammation of the tonsillar tissue. Children are mostly affected and this ordinary simple disease can sometime lead to serious complications. Recurrent
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Somehow immune to an unstoppable‚ incurable virus‚ military virologist Robert Neville is now the last human survivor in New York City and maybe the world. But he is not alone. Mutant plague victims lurk in the shadows? watching Neville’s every move? waiting for him to make a fatal mistake. Perhaps mankind’s last‚ best hope‚ Neville is driven by only one remaining mission: to find an antidote using his own immune blood. But he knows he is outnumbered? and quickly running out of time. SYNOPSIS The
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LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL Chapter one Computer virus COMPUTER VIRUS A computer virus is a computer program that can replicate itself and spread from one computer to another. The term "virus" is also commonly‚ but erroneously‚ used to refer to other types of malware‚ including but not limited to adware and spyware programs that do not have a reproductive ability. Malware includes computer viruses‚ computer worms‚ ransomware‚ Trojan horses‚ keyloggers‚ most rootkits‚ spyware‚ dishonest
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Development of a Monovalent Vaccine Based on cAdVax Technology Against Zaire Ebola Virus Offers Hope in Developing a Bivalent Vaccine Against the 2 Deadliest Strains Microbial Genetics BT405 Thomas Jefferson University December 15‚ 2010 Development of a Monovalent Vaccine Based on cAdVax Technology Against Zaire Ebola Virus Offers Hope in Developing a Bivalent Vaccine Against the 2 Deadliest Strains Ebola viruses are a group of highly pathogenic filoviruses that cause outbreaks of severe
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want to get the Marburg virus (Preston 36). These are just some of the symptoms people experienced in Germany in 1967. Marburg was discovered in a factory called the Behring Works. This factory used the kidney cells of African green monkeys to produce vaccines for polio. The marburg virus had been discovered after a shipment of green monkeys had been brought from Uganda. These monkeys carried the Marburg virus‚ thus causing people who cared for these monkeys to get the virus. Several had died from
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Introduction Ebola virus which causes Ebola hemorrhagic fever‚ was first recognized in 1976 in Zaire‚ now Democratic Republic of Congo‚ and Sudan. It is named after the river Ebola in Zaire. The virus has five known subtypes named after the location where they were first identified and caused disease: Ebola Sudan‚ Ebola-Bundibugyo‚ Ebola-Zaire‚ Ebola-Ivory Coast and Ebola-Reston. (CDC.gov) Ebola-Reston is the newest subtype and was identified in research macaques imported from Philippines
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Rabies virus‚ like many rhabdoviruses‚ does have extremely wide host range. In the wild it has been found infecting many mammalian species‚ while in the laboratory it has been found that birds can be infected‚ as well as cell cultures from mammals‚ birds‚ reptiles and insects (Carter and Saunders 175). The rabies virus is an enveloped virus in the Rhabdoviridae family with a cylindrical morphology. The structure of this virus is unique. It is a rod or bullet shaped‚ single-stranded‚ genome with negative-sense
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