Why do viruses cause disease?
Virulence, the capacity to cause disease, varies markedly among viruses. Some viruses cause lethal disease while others do not. For example, nearly all humans infected with rabies virus develop a…
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Polio-like paralysis in California
…disease, and there is at least one report of its association with central nervous system disease. I believe it is an unlikely cause of the paralytic cases in California based…
Antibodies mediate severe dengue in humans
Severe dengue virus disease, also known as dengue hemorrhagic fever/dengue shock syndrome (DHF/DSS), is most likely to occur in previously infected individuals experiencing a second encounter with a different serotype….
Trial By Error: My Questions for the Science Media Centre
By David Tuller, DrPH On September 20, 2017, a BMJ Publishing Group journal, Archives of Disease in Childhood published the SMILE trial. This trial investigated an intervention called the Lightning…
Notifiable diseases in the US for 2011
…information regarding individual cases is considered necessary for the prevention and control of the disease. The list of nationally notifiable infectious diseases is dynamic, as new diseases are added and…
Prions in plants
Chronic wasting disease is a prion disease of cervids (deer, elk, moose) that is potentially a threat to human health. A role for environmental prion contamination in transmission is supported…