Norovirus Redux
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…
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Antiviral Drugs
…team from the University Malaya Medical Centre has achieved a first by discovering an anti-virus for dengue fever from herbs’. Let’s take apart this sentence to understand what it means….
Federal Control of Science
…task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in…
Dengue in the news
…second which is a joint effort by Sanofi-Aventis and a Thai University. There is no information at all in the article on these vaccines, save for the information that they…
TWiV #9 – Fever! The discovery of Lassa virus
On This Week in Virology episode #9, Vincent and Dick recall the discovery of Lassa virus in Africa in 1969. A non-fictional account of the story, ‘Fever’, written by John…
Equine herpesvirus 9 in zoo animals
…a great deal of information about viral pathogenesis, tropism, and host range. The Department of Veterinary Science at the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture has an excellent website on…