symptoms are lethargy‚ generalized aches and fever followed by cough‚ shortness of breath and occasionally diarrhea. The virus is known to be transmitted by droplets of body fluids when the infected individual coughs or sneezes. It is also thought to possibly be transmitted via contact. The virus is known to survive for up to 3 hours after contaminated droplets have dried. Live virus has also been found in the stool of infected individuals and can live in stool for up to 4 days. (McIntosh & Perlman‚
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be a body without a mind is to be subhuman‚ animal; to be a human without agency is to be a prisoner‚ a slave. The zombi(i)/e is both of these‚ and the zombi(i)/e (fore)tells our past‚ present‚ and future. 12 Sarah Juliet Lauro and Karen Embry‚ “A Zombie Manifesto: The Nonhuman Condition in the Era of Advanced Capitalism‚” boundary2 35‚ no.1 (Spring‚ 2008): 95.
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Due to the extreme contagious nature of the disease patient may need to limit contact with the community. Children may need to stay home from school and adults from work‚ until the sores have crusted over. After the disease has run its course‚ the virus lays dominant in the nervous system‚ and reappear as another viral infection called shingles. Shingles‚ is a red rash that turns into painful blisters‚ forming along a nerve path‚ usually on one side. It
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caused by a bacterium called Vibrio Cholerae and usually lives in water whereas Influenza‚ more commonly known as the flu or grippe‚ is a disease cause by several different viruses so people can have it more than once. The differences between a virus and a bacterium are thus: * Bacteria are unicellular‚ Viruses have no cells. * Bacteria have DNA and RNA floating in cytoplasm‚ and a cell wall and membrane. Viruses have DNA or RNA enclosed in a protein coat. * Bacteria have Ribosomes
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Introduction According to NCBI articles Papilloma virus is not known to be a single virus and proved it is not a single virus; it is only related to closely related viruses. Typing is based on nucleic acid sequencing 100 HPV types are known to east. HPV types associated with malignancies and they are thus referred to as high-risk types and these who are associated with condylomas are rarely found in cancers thus their called low-risk types. Moreover‚ Cervical Cancer is the most common HPV –related
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(http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2013/02/11/newly_identified_natural_protein_blocks_hiv_other_deadly_viruses.html) Date Published February 11‚ 2013 06:40 PM Synopsis: A team of UCLA-led researchers has identified a protein with broad virus-fighting properties that potentially could be used as a weapon against deadly human pathogenic
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Ebola Virus Ebola virus (EBOV) is considered to be one of the most belligerent contagious agents and has an ability to cause highly fatal hemorrhagic fever syndrome that results in human and non-human primate’s death (NHPs) during the days of exposure. The first notification of the virus was mentioned in the Ebola River valley in Zaire for the time of an outburst in 1976. Moreover‚ the outbursts have appeared in Africa over the following 27 years‚ with death rates that differ from 50 to 90%. In
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The Variola virus otherwise known as the Small pox is an enveloped protected DNA containing virus that causes severe illness. Small pox has a history dating back to prehistory times. It is believed to have appeared around 10‚000 BC in northeast Africa. Evidence was suggested by medical examination of mummies ; their skin appeared have contain skin lesions resembling those ones that have had small pox. The infection of the variola virus seemed uncontainable during the prehistory times and even during
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A person can spread the hepatitis A virus if their feces come into contact with someone else‚ since the virus lives and can be found in the infecteds stool/feces. This is why the hepatitis A virus is mainly transmitted through contaminated food‚ water‚ sanitation‚ or even lack of personal hygiene. If a person consumes contaminated food or comes into contact with the virus‚ the person will then begin to receive the disease and ultimately become infected
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film created by George A. Romero. Zombies start to take over the world and whet they crave is human flesh. “Dawn of the Dead” is not like any other zombie films‚ it puts the watchers of this movie in the place of the characters played in this movie. The sudden question that hovers over anyone’s mind during this movie is “What would I do?” during this zombie apocalypse that the people are facing throughout this movie three main factors stand out whether feminism is an issue‚ how social values stand and
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