Women AND men beware: HPV, the culprit behind more than just cervical cancers?
…or sexual contact, the virus gains access to the basal layer of the epithelial tissue, which is the lowest layer of the skin. HPV is a DNA virus that replicates…
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Whither 2009 H1N1?
…each year as the virus underwent antigenic drift. If the pattern of H3N2 serves as a guide, we might predict that the 2009 swine-origin H1N1 virus will display pandemic spread…
XMRV not found in 170 additional UK chronic fatigue syndrome patients
A new retrovirus, xenotropic murine leukaemia virus-related virus (XMRV), first identified in tumor tissue of individuals with prostate cancer, was subsequently found in 68 of 101 US patients with chronic…
XMRV not detected in Dutch chronic fatigue patients
…caused by a viral infection and has been associated with a number of viruses, most notably Epstein-Barr virus and human herpes virus but firm evidence for a role of viruses…
How to End this Pandemic
by Gertrud U. Rey As of today, SARS-CoV-2 has infected 18.7 million people and caused 700,000 deaths worldwide. The most realistic way to quickly curb the spread of the virus…
How many viruses on Earth?
…different viruses, of which 55 were identified in this study. If the 5,486 known mammalian species each harbor 58 viruses, there would be ~320,000 unknown viruses that infect mammals. This…