Zika virus in Brazilian non-human primates
…antibodies that react with Zika virus. In these areas Zika virus is probably transmitted among monkeys in what is called a sylvatic cycle. Periodic outbreaks (epizootics) of Zika virus infections…
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Herpes simplex virus and Alzheimer€™s disease
…is acquired early in life when the virus is introduced onto a mucosal surface, typically from a family member. The virus replicates productively in epithelial cells, spreads through tissue, and…
De-discovering pathogens: Viral contamination strikes again
…the retrovirus XMRV, initially implicated as the cause of chronic fatigue syndrome, and later shown to be a murine virus that contaminated human cells grown in mice? Another virus thought…
Can a virus be revived?
In Carl Zimmer’s New York Times article describing the recovery of the giant virus Pithovirus sibericum from the Siberian permafrost, he used the words revive and resurrect. Can a virus…
N.Y. Times: H5N1 ferret research should not have been done
…terrorists. €¦the new virus€¦ought to be destroyed. The intent of the experiments was not to create a doomsday virus, but to answer questions about why the H5N1 virus transmits well…
A problem with dengue virus vaccine
…the attenuated yellow fever virus vaccine, and the envelope glycoproteins from dengue virus. No dengue virus nonstructural proteins are encoded in the Dengvaxia genome. As Scott Halstead wrote, The substitution…