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The health infrastructure put in place during the eradication campaign has enabled the deployment of injectable polio vaccines, which will complement the oral vaccines in ensuring that the virus does not return.
My homeland has become a place where too many people are victims, succumbing to a virus, or gunned down by a drug-trafficker; assaulted by a robber, shot by an ill-trained policeman, or kidnapped by a member of a criminal gang.
Today, conspiracy theories abound in Mexico about the origins of the virus, because government officials are viewed with such ingrained suspicion.
With more than 40 million people living in poverty and 7,000 killed in drug-related violence last year, Mexico will need to reform quickly to address what the virus has brought to light: a government far removed from the suffering of ordinary people and too frequently insensitive to their plight.
Scientists established that a previously unknown retrovirus was the cause of AIDS, and determined that the virus was primarily transmitted through sexual contact.
But if the spread of misinformation is thought of as a virus, there is no natural equilibrium to be had, short of catastrophe.
The End of AIDSNEW YORK – The AIDS pandemic claimed around 36 million lives between 1981 and 2016, and a similar number around the world currently live with the HIV virus.
The key reason that the epidemic can be ended is a scientific finding back in 2011 that showed that HIV-positive individuals receiving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment suppress the HIV virus in their bloodstreams so dramatically that they are very unlikely to transmit the virus to others through sex or shared needles.
If a high enough proportion of HIV-positive individuals receive ARV treatment, it is possible not only to save their lives, but also to break the transmission of the virus itself, thereby ending the epidemic.
The 90-90-90 program aims to ensure that by the year 2020, 90% of all HIV-infected individuals know that they are infected (the first 90); 90% of all those who know they are infected are receiving ARV treatment (the second 90); and 90% of all those receiving ARV treatment successfully suppress the HIV virus in the blood.
But if there's one lesson the HIV/AIDS virus has taught public health officials, it is that waiting only creates opportunities for the epidemic that will cost us millions of lives.
Similarly, a virus that infects gypsy moth larvae prompts them to climb en masse to the tops of trees to die.
The virus then multiplies, and rains viral particles down on the forest floor.
Consider the rabies virus, which is transmitted among dogs, humans, and other mammals by biting.
To maximize its chances of spreading to another host, the virus actually alters its host’s mind to turn it into an angry, slavering, biting machine that will chomp at anything it encounters.
From its origins as a terrorist group capitalizing on state failure in Iraq and Syria, it has spread like a virus from Afghanistan to Nigeria and carried out or inspired attacks as far abroad as the United States and the Philippines.
But we need to do more than just suppress the jihadist virus; we must eradicate it.
No medicine will work if, when the patient is released, he encounters the same virus: institutionalized Wahhabism.
Simple nuclear-derived kits accelerated the detection of the Ebola virus during the recent outbreak in West Africa.
As the Stuxnet virus that infected Iran’s nuclear program showed, software attacks can have very real physical effects.
Roughly 90% of the world’s pregnant women and children with HIV live in Africa, and, despite notable recent reductions in HIV transmission rates, adolescent girls are still more than twice as likely as boys of the same age to carry the virus.
But if the virus mutates into a form that is transmissible between humans, the number of deaths could run into the hundreds of millions.
President Barack Obama even announced last week the appointment of an “Ebola Czar” to manage the detection, isolation, and control of the virus in the US.
Altering the coating of the virus can make it infect only certain types of cells, such as those that support motor neurons.
But, just as a virus can afflict the healthiest of people, a crisis can sweep up even a well-prepared economy.
The so-called “love bug virus,” launched in the Phillipines in 2000, is estimated to have cost billions of dollars in damage.
Over the past century, our scientific understanding of germs has improved so much that every virus and bacteria can now be quickly diagnosed and isolated.
More recently, researchers discovered an Ebola vaccine that provides 100% protection against the virus.
Given that there are no vaccines or drug treatments for illnesses like dengue fever and West Nile virus, and that treatments for diseases like malaria are difficult to access in many at-risk areas, more effective mechanisms for controlling mosquito populations are desperately needed.
What we do know is that HPV is a highly infectious sexually transmitted virus, which is responsible for almost all forms of cervical cancer.
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