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Even an Epstein-Barr virus vaccine, which would protect against some kinds of lymphoma, is achieving promising results.
Many people deny that the Ebola virus exists at all, claiming that their governments have invented it to raise additional funds – which they will never see – from the international community.
With a highly contagious and lethal virus devastating poor and fragmented societies that distrust their leaders, business as usual is not enough.
The only way to halt the current Ebola outbreak, and prevent similar epidemics, is to address the fundamental social and political vulnerabilities that have allowed the virus to flourish.
We spent much of this year worrying about the Zika virus, especially once it crossed into the US.
The prevailing theory held a virulent strain of the dengue virus responsible.
Why Rabies Still KillsSINGAPORE – A virus that infects your brain, makes you want to bite things, and is almost always fatal after symptoms appear probably sounds like something from a zombie movie.
In principle, no human in this day and age should die from rabies, and yet, according to a 2015 study, the virus kills 59,000 people annually.
Dogs showing symptoms may bite a human, but they can also transmit the virus simply by licking if their saliva comes into contact with a scratch, damaged skin, or mucosa.
The rabies virus hijacks the nervous system and actually manipulates neural processes to make its host move faster.
French scientist Louis Pasteur formulated the first rabies vaccine in 1885, by injecting the virus into rabbits, waiting for it to kill them, and then drying the infected nerve tissues to weaken the virus to the point that it could be safely administered.
The virus is then rendered inactive, purified, and administered by injection into the arm.
One reason is that the virus is almost always transmitted by animals, rather than by other humans.
For much of the crisis, beginning in 2014, we lacked the equipment and materials needed to contain the deadly virus.
They are not some deadly virus or long-term environmental threat.
As the worldwide polio burden plummets, we become safer from importations of the virus.
While the likelihood of a breakup remains impossible to predict, the virus of political divorce has certainly proved contagious – and a more fragmented Europe is undoubtedly a less safe one.
The story of interferon, given for one year to patients with hepatitis C virus, is particularly striking.
Even literary debates may become the pretext for which violent appeals to a bigoted unity and, of course, for excluding those carrying the virus of critical thinking.
Fortunately, memories of fascist dictatorship may have inoculated Spain and Portugal against the far-right virus, with left-wing anti-austerity parties and regionalists benefiting instead.
Japan makes headlines as the climax of the Asian virus, but it doesn't fit that template.
Until the polio virus is eradicated everywhere, no country is safe from reinfection.
Although new HIV infections worldwide declined slightly during the past decade, 2.7 million people contracted the virus in 2008, and there were two million HIV/AIDS-related deaths.
Another example is cervical cancers, many of which can be prevented by vaccines against human papilloma virus.
We know from influenza that a new epidemic can suddenly appear just as an older one is fading, if a new form of the virus appears, or if some environmental factor increases the contagion rate.
This places the tubercle bacillus second only to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) on the list of top microbial killers.
But it is at least as likely that some transmission will persist, or that the virus will be reintroduced into human populations from animals.
Experience around the world shows that SARS cases must be isolated within a few days of the onset of symptoms in order to control the spread of the virus.
Wider vaccination will protect people from infection and block the spread of the virus.
Until now, there were only three countries where the virus was still considered endemic: Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nigeria.
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