…are vectors for the transmission of many human viral diseases, including yellow fever, West Nile disease, Japanese encephalitis, and dengue hemorrhagic fever. Many mosquito-borne viruses enter the human central nervous…
…XMRV replication, reduce disease, and reduce emergence of resistant viral mutants. How well do these drugs inhibit XMRV compared with HIV-1? The authors write that “Relative to HIV-1, the compounds…
…cold. But the press has over reacted to this work – it was reported on the front page of the New York Times with the headline “Cure for the Common…
…is highly unlikely that laboratory-modified viruses will be able to cause extensive disease in humans. When humans tinker with viruses, they generally do not know what the virus needs to…
…discussion of virus fatality, transmission, virulence, fomites, and vaccines, we should remember that people are contracting the virus. At all stages of disease they need to be treated with humanity….
…among humans through close and direct physical contact with infected bodily fluids, the most infectious being blood, faeces and vomit. Ebola virus disease is not an airborne infection. Airborne spread…
