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Humans will continue to push against our existing boundaries, whether out of necessity, curiosity, pleasure, or greed, so more virus jumps will undoubtedly occur.
This virus would continuously nudge government agencies to become more effective and accessible, rather than merely more efficient.
The spread of the Ebola virus has been facilitated by our countries’ shared history and culture, which has enabled the disease to cross borders easily and move quickly from remote rural areas to urban centers.
We urge our international partners to support our economic recovery in the same spirit of cooperation, and with the same sense of urgency, that helped us fight the Ebola virus.
The Flame virus has the capacity to take over a computer’s peripherals, record Skype conversations, take pictures through a computer’s camera, and transmit information via Bluetooth to any nearby device.
Virus protection and virus development constitute an uneven arms race.
A virus can be just a couple hundred lines of computer code, compared to hundreds of thousands of lines for anti-virus programs, which must be designed to detect wide classes of enemies.
Nigeria Beyond EbolaABUJA – When the World Health Organization declared that Nigeria had successfully eradicated the Ebola virus within its borders, there was loud global applause.
In August, the virus spread to Port Harcourt in the east of the country, but it was quickly controlled there, too.
Nigeria took on a potentially devastating opponent – the Ebola virus – and won.
Combating the virus requires knowledge about its biology, the epidemiology of its transmission, and the drugs and vaccines that could potentially be deployed against it.
But advanced nations, too, can fall victim to surprise attack--as happened last year when the first outbreak of West Nile virus in North America killed seven New Yorkers.
The Ethics of EbolaLONDON – As the Ebola virus grips an unprecedentedly wide swath of Africa, many are asking whether it is time to begin administering untested drugs and vaccines.
Mozambique was at war: villages were isolated, and migrant workers, who would eventually bring the virus into the country, were few.
“The Ebola virus should know better than to visit that place,” observers quipped.
The desired "product" of gene-splicing may be the engineered organism itself--a bacteria to clean up oil spills, a weakened virus used as a vaccine, or a papaya tree that resists viruses--or it may be a biosynthetic product of the cells, such as human insulin produced in bacteria, or oil expressed from seeds.
India, with its large emigrant population (the second largest in the world), high urban density, and inadequate public health-care infrastructure, potentially has the most to lose if the Ebola virus spreads.
Given these factors – urban density, congested slums and shantytowns with poor sanitation, drainage, and sewage, and weak health-care infrastructure – it is easy to imagine how the Ebola virus could spread rapidly.
Moreover, it is essential to educate health-care workers in all urban areas about the virus and its symptoms, and to train them to ascertain patients’ medical and travel history.
A virus that previously infected the fruit bat has crossed over to humans, whose population growth and density is at odds with the support that the natural environment can provide.
Lagos, where the Nigerian authorities have done a remarkable job of preventing the spread of the virus, closely resembles India’s megapolises.
When the Global Fund was created a decade ago, HIV incidence was rising around the world, and the drugs used to treat the virus were still prohibitively expensive.
It is an annoyance when a software virus crashes our computers; but what if the virus crashes our cars?
The Return of Yellow FeverSEATTLE – Before the horrors of the latest Ebola outbreak in West Africa could even begin to fade from our minds, the Zika virus emerged as a major global health risk, and is now occupying researchers and doctors in South America, Central America, and the Caribbean.
Yet the death toll from another virus is rising fast: yellow fever.
Since the virus emerged in Luanda, Angola’s capital and most populous city, last December, it has killed 293 people and infected a suspected 2,267.
The virus has now spread to six of the country’s 18 provinces.
Yellow fever virus is transmitted by Aedes aegypti – the same mosquito that spreads the Zika virus.
But even that may not be enough if the virus spreads further.
The virus also has the potential to spread to the Americas, which are home to Aedes mosquito vectors that transmit not only yellow fever, but also dengue, Zika, and chikungunya.
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