Infectious salmon anemia virus spread from Norway to Chile
The Chilean salmon farming industry has been severely affected by disease caused by infectious salmon anemia virus. Salmon eggs shipped from Norway to Chile in 2007 are the cause of…
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Sushi protects mosquitoes from lethal virus infections
…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…
Inhibitors of XMRV
…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…
Is an effective treatment for the common cold at hand?
…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…
Ferreting out influenza H5N1
…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…
How Firestone controlled Ebola virus disease in Liberia
…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….