While many viruses spill over to infect new or alternative hosts, only a few accomplish this transition鈥攁nd the reasons for the success of those pathogens are still unclear. Here, we consider this issue related to the emergence of animal viruses, where factors involved likely include the ...
Viruses are one of the mostdiverse and abundant biological entities on the planet;they branch into different variants as they replicate. The pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 and its many variants brought virus variation to the forefront, but it is only one of countless examples. How and why do ...
Computer viruses are nasty bits of software that can cause your PC to behave in all sorts of unpleasant ways. Viruses spread from one computer to another by hijacking the resources of their host machines in order to copy themselves and proliferate — just like biological viruses do, from one ...
I ama virologistwhostudies emerging and zoonotic virusesto better understand how new epidemic or pandemic viruses emerge. My research group has been studying various aspects of the COVID-19 virus, including its spillover into animals. The omicron variant possesses numerous...
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Ray said delta is “a big family” of viruses, and the world is now swimming in a sort of “delta soup.” “We have many lineages of delta that are circulating in many places with no clear winners,” Ray said, adding that it’s hard to know from genetic features which might have...
Thus the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention prompts the general public to find EVD as a subcategory under the broader umbrella of haemorrhagic viruses, alongside the earlier discovery of a filovirus with different identifying symptoms, the variant Ebola Haemorrhagic Fever (EHF) of nearly 50...
it’s probably not a good idea to have a whole city of people wearing masks. However, if you have symptoms of infection, you should wear a mask at once, even at home. There may be viruses in saliva droplets, wearing masks now can prevent infecting others. Wearing masks in this case ...
The first wave of contrarian ideas about AIDS, then, was less true “denialism” and more the understandable confusion and differences of opinion that can emerge around a new disease. Yet as time went on, “the death rates were increasing dramatically,” says Lindsay Zafir, a distinguished ...
covid-19 infection. The hope is that such cases will be milder, because the immune system has been primed by the first encounter with the disease. Even if that is true, the virus will continue to circulate, finding unprotected people and—because that is what viruses doevolving new ...