Is bivalent poliovirus vaccine a good idea?
…two; therefore poliovirus vaccines have always included all three serotypes (they are trivalent). The attenuated vaccine that is used in the eradication effort is an infectious vaccine. The vaccine is…
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Should smallpox virus be destroyed?
…virus. Notice in the article the author writes “a committee of world leaders decided to keep, for now, the world’s two remaining vials of the deadly disease smallpox”. As Rich…
The World of Viruses
…took the photograph at left. Within a few minutes there were no empty seats in the room. Watch the video of The World of Viruses below, or view at YouTube….
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the CDC: A Long, Tangled Tale
…journalism at UC Berkeley. He was a guest on TWiV 119. In the early 1990s, Mary Schweitzer, a history professor at Villanova University near Philadelphia, suffered through successive bouts of…
A viral mashup in snakes
…of two distinct arenaviruses. One virus, called CASV (California Academy of Sciences virus) was found in diseased annulated tree boas, and the second, GGV (Golden Gate virus) was detected in…
Viroids, infectious agents that encode no proteins
…host plants. Potato spindle tuber viroid, discovered in 1971, is the prototype; 29 other viroids have since been discovered ranging in length from 120 to 475 nucleotides. Viroids only infect…