Thoughts on this season’s influenza vaccine
…single influenza season. Younger recipients will likely be protected from disease for one influenza season, and perhaps a second season as well, although in the latter case a milder respiratory…
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West Nile Virus
…This bird-mosquito-bird pattern is known as an enzootic cycle. West Nile virus may cause a serious disease in humans called viral encephalitis (inflammation of the brain). The virus was first…
Viruses of protozoan parasites may exacerbate human disease
…disease and complications. The outcome of this work may determine whether the use of antivirals to inhibit TVV replication, or anti-inflammatory agents, should accompany antibiotic therapy to prevent the complications…
How viruses are classified
…according to the associated diseases (poliovirus, rabies), the type of disease caused (murine leukemia virus), or the sites in the body affected or from which the virus was first isolated…
Why John Coffin doesn’t sleep well
…a causative role in the disease. In this video he expresses cautious optimism about the role of XMRV (and related murine retroviruses) in human disease. Note in particular his statement…
PMRV joins XMRV as possible etiologic agent of chronic fatigue syndrome
…seem reasonable to conduct extensive case-control studies in North America…using coded samples from subject with inflammatory disease to determine the frequency of MLV infection in patients with CFS. The potential…