president wanted to contain the disease‚ so he was going to bomb a town with lots of people who had interacted with the disease. The group of scientists was racing to find a cure. When they found one‚ the military officers tried to stop them because the virus was a potential biological weapon. I wanted to know if the government would bomb the town in the book then find a cure or find a cure before bombing. I think that the government would just bomb before because nobody was alive. I still don’t understand
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negative sense RNA infection of the family Orthomyxoviridae with 3 genera – Influenza A‚ B and C Influenza A is further sub-typed into 16 particular H sorts and 9 N sorts based in the hemagglutinin and neuraminidase antigens on the surface of the virus. Every year new strains of the infection rise as its qualities experience persistent point changes prompting an ’antigenic drift’. This offers the infection some assistance
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utilized in a futile attempt to stave off the unknown microbe. A few days later‚ a prominent western viral researcher contracted the unknown disease and the hunt for the microbe that caused lassa fever‚ began in earnest.(Garrett‚ 1994) Lassa fever is a virus belonging to the family Arenaviridae. Genus Arenavirus‚ although
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Paige Edwards Unit 4222-265 Causes and spread of infection outcome 1- to understand the causes of infections identify the differences between bacteria‚ viruses‚ fungi and parasites. 1) Bacteria is a organism that is present in most habitats‚ as well as human bodies and other living organisms such as plants and animals. Bacteria multiplies by its self to progress and spread. Unlike other infections such as viruses‚ fungi or parasites bacteria is not always harmful in fact in many cases
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large bronchi (medium-size airways) in the lungs that is usually caused by viruses or bacteria and may last several days or weeks. Causes Acute bronchitis can be caused by contagious pathogens‚ most commonly viruses. Typical viruses include respiratory syncytial virus‚ rhinovirus‚ influenza‚ and others. Bacteria are uncommon pathogens but may include Mycoplasma pneumoniae‚ Chlamydophila pneumoniae‚ Bordetella pertussis‚ streptococcus pneumoniae‚ and haemophilus influenzae. * Damage caused by irritation of the
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In chapter 13 zombies was a popular myth in Haiti; and was believed to be people who die and are called back to life by witchcraft. This chapter talks about Zora’s personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica where she participated as in initiate rather than just an observer of voodoo practices. During her visits she stayed with several types of voodoo priests. (Houngans and Bocors) She witnessed various ceremonies with her own eyes. The religion is a mishmash of Christian and African elements. Often
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1.1. History Viruses that have been attenuated are less communicable than viruses that are not. Although the virus in the chickenpox inoculation is generally incompetent of causing an ailment‚ it still encourages a response from the body’s invulnerable system. 1.2. Causes In 1875‚ Steiner demonstrated that chickenpox was caused by a communicable agent by inoculating volunteers with the vesicular fluid from a patient with desperate varicella. Clinical explanations of the relationship between varicella
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9-1 Identifying the Genetic Material Griffith’s experiments Frederick Griffith‚ a bacteriologist‚ was trying to prepare a vaccine against the pneumonia-causing bacterium‚ S. pneumoniae. A vaccine is a substance that is prepared from killed or weakened microorganisms and is introduced into the body to protect the body against future infections by the microorganisms. Griffin worked with 2 types‚ or strains of S. Pneumonia. The first strain is enclosed in a capsule made of polysaccharides
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Justin Powell March 4‚ 2015 Prof. Cootz Sociology 1301 Madness Of A Zombie Apocalypse Society In a zombie apocalypse society many things change in people’s nature and surroundings. Not only is there death at every corner mentally and physically it is mentally draining to be in an anarchist society with brain hungry murderers. Things change such as social control‚ what wealth is‚ crime‚ laws‚ discrimination‚ and every way one would live through such a disaster. In a case of an emergency you would
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referred to as bacterial transformation and is caused by the alteration of a cell‚ which results in the uptake and expression of foreign DNA. Transduction is the process by which DNA from one bacterium is transferred to another bacterium through a virus‚ which infects one taking genetic information and then the other‚ depositing the genetic information. The final way HGT occurs is though a process known as conjugation. Conjugation is a form of bacterial “mating” which results in the sharing of genes
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