A person can spread the hepatitis A virus if their feces come into contact with someone else‚ since the virus lives and can be found in the infecteds stool/feces. This is why the hepatitis A virus is mainly transmitted through contaminated food‚ water‚ sanitation‚ or even lack of personal hygiene. If a person consumes contaminated food or comes into contact with the virus‚ the person will then begin to receive the disease and ultimately become infected
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Norwalk Virus As the summer season is in full gear now a particular virus is looming in the horizon. This virus is an important cause of acute gastroenteritis in humans and is the most frequently implicated cause of outbreaks of viral gastroenteritis worldwide. Noroviruses are a group of single-stranded RNA viruses in the family Caliciviridae that cause acute gastroenteritis in humans.(1) Norwalk virus is the prototypical strain in the genus. Noroviruses cause an estimated
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dangerous type of viruses is one capable of transmitting itself across networks and bypassing security system. Worms are similar to computer viruses which they can replicate themselves to your computer‚ spread from computer to computer‚ but unlike a virus‚ it has the capability to travel without any human action. A worm takes advantage of file or information transport features on your system‚ which is what allows it to travel without any human action. The danger about the worms is the ability to reproduce
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Virus Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT? a. Viruses are not able to move by themselves. b. Viruses are not able to reproduce by themselves. c. Viruses are not structurally organized. d. Viruses are nonliving particles. e. Viruses contain instructions to manufacture themselves. ____ 2. Which of the following is FALSE? a. The outer coats of all viruses are alike. b. The
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John Velarosa Professor Ingram D. Rogers 1106CSIA3014041 August 3rd 2011 The Stuxnet Virus The Stuxnet Virus Abstract: What diplomacy could not achieve‚ sanctions could not silent‚ and for which a military option was not viable‚ a cyber attack quietly accomplished. Kim Zetter an investigative reporter with Wired Magazine online calls Stuxnet‚ “a piece of software that would ultimately make history as the world’s first real cyberweapon.” (Zetter‚ 2011‚ sec. 1) In his article‚ Is “Stuxnet”
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Dengue virus is an epidemic facing many Asian countries. Although the current topic of discussion among health professionals is a possible outbreak of avian flu among humans‚ the dengue virus kills hundreds every year in the same region (ONE). This epidemic is not one that faces easy fixes‚ in fact there is no vaccine for the dengue virus. In this paper I will discuss and explain how the dengue virus poses a great threat to the region and how it plagues the lives of thousands of people in Asia.
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Ebola Virus Thesis Statement: The deadly virus Ebola is killing thousands of innocent people worldwide‚ but there are some simple steps that are being taken to prevent this coming tide of deadly parasites Outbreaks 1976 outbreak 1995 outbreak First two outbreaks What is Ebola? The Ebola virus in general Symptoms Transmission What is to blame? Poor facilities are impart to blame Poor governmental operation Chimpanzees are the suspected hosts Prevention and what it helping More money
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graphics on the desktop are a mirror image of what they should be. Congratulations‚ you have a computer virus! According to "Virus Bulletin‚" the Oxfordshire‚ England-based technical journal that tracks viruses‚ this new virus flips any uncompressed bitmaps horizontally‚ but only on Saturdays. This bulletin credits GriYo of the 29A virus-writing group as the author of this 32-bit polymorphic Windows virus now known as HPS (Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome). Panda Software of Spain has announced that it
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2014 Fear of the Ebola Virus The Ebola virus was discovered in the 1976 near the Ebola River in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Ebola virus—previously known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever—has been typically a disease of Central Africa‚ which it was until recently. There are five different confirmed strains of the virus. There is the Zaire Ebola‚ the Sudan‚ the Tai Forest‚ Bundibugyo virus‚ each of which can affect humans. The fifth strain‚ the Reston virus‚ has only caused disease
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The Mydoom virus (also known as a worm and as Win32.Mydoom.A) was a very damaging computer virus that affected Microsoft Windows-based computers. The worm was spread through mass emailing‚ disguised as badly sent email. Design and infection The virus was made to be sent in an email with an attachment that carried the virus. When the attachment was opened‚ the virus would download itself to the computer. The virus can only affect Windows based computers. The virus came with a package that would
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