Virologists rely on the research literature not only to publish their findings, but to keep up with what other virologists are doing. PubMed, a database that provides citations from many life sciences journals and related resources, provides an easy way to search the entire biomedical literature and is used by most virologists on a daily …
I came across an article in Saukvalley.com about VHSV, or viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus, which causes disease in fish. I have never worked on viruses of fish, but they’re fascinating, and economically very, very important. So let’s have a look at what this article is about. VHSV causes a very serious disease of fresh and …
Transmission of wild poliovirus continues in four countries: Afghanistan, India, Nigeria, and Pakistan. From January 2006 to February 2007, the number of polio cases increased in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Poliovirus continues to circulate in these countries because insufficent numbers of infants receive three doses of oral polio vaccine – 69% and 64% in Afghanistan and …
Poliovirus is the etiologic agent of the paralytic disease known as poliomyelitis. It’s also the virus I’ve worked on for most of my career. The World Health Organization is in the midst of a massive effort to eradicate the disease, an undertaking that has encountered a number of obstacles. In coming posts I’d like to …
Gazette.net has written correctly about a norovirus outbreak: “County health officials said a virus passed from a single contact source caused students attending a conference at the University of Maryland in College Park to become sick over the weekend. “The virus, known as the Norovirus, causes gastroenteritis or stomach flu, and is usually spread through …
For the past month or so, a search of Google News for ‘virus’ has yielded mainly articles on computer viruses or West Nile virus. Why are there so many articles on West Nile virus? Summer is the prime season for transmission of this virus, which is spread to humans by mosquitoes. In temperate climates (e.g. …
