The varicella zoster virus (VZV) causes chickenpox and herpes zosters. Primary infection from exposure through direct contact with a skin lesion or through airborne respiratory droplets leads to chickenpox‚ usually seen in children. After the initial infection‚ the virus is latent in the cranial nerve and dorsal root ganglia‚ and can reactivate later in life as herpes zoster (HZ)‚ also called shingles. Shingles has a household transmission rate of 15% while chickenpox has an 85% risk of transmission
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brain dysfunction due to infective (usually viral) or non-infective processes. The pattern of brain involvement depends on the specific pathogen‚ the immunological state of the host‚ and a range of environmental factors. In encephalitis the virus initially gains entry and replicates in local or regional tissue‚ such as the GI tract‚ skin‚ urogenital system‚ or respiratory system. Many cases of encephalitis may go unnoticed because they result in only mild flu-like symptoms or even no symptoms
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Pharmacologyonline 3: 64-72 (2006) Newsletter ROLE AND SCOPE OF ETHNOMEDICAL PLANTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANTIVIRALS Debprasad Chattopadhyay ICMR Virus Unit‚ ID & BG Hospital‚ GB 4‚ First floor‚ 57 Dr. Suresh C Banerjee Road‚ Beliaghata‚ Kolkata 700 010‚ India. Summary Ethnomedicinal plants have been used as source of drugs for almost all diseases‚ but none are used against viruses probably because there are a very few specific viral targets for natural molecules to interact. Most
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Imagine going on vacation to a foreign country and when you come home you are horribly sick. Your head hurts‚ you have a high fever‚ and you start vomiting. Chances are that you may have contracted the Ebola virus. Ebola was first discovered in the village of Yambuku(1) near the Ebola River in Zaire. Since its discovery‚ there have been four outbreaks of this disease. There are three known strains‚ of variations of ebola. There is no known cure for this disease(2).Ebola has become one of the
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BIO204 02-25-13 Discussion One Topic(s): Each year the influenza virus will infect anywhere between 5-20% of our Nations population and upwards of 200‚000 will become hospitalized for further treatments from complications. Most cases can occur between the months of October through May among those January and February is the peak months of the flu season. People most at risk of complications are the elderly above 65 years or older‚ children younger than 2 years old‚ and anyone who have chronic
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more likely than vice versa. There are two types of viruses‚ there is HSV-2 and HSV-1‚ these are found in and released from the sores that the viruses cause‚ but are released between outbreaks in skin that doesn’t seem to have a sore. Generally‚ the virus is contracted by sexual contact with someone who has the HSV-2 infection. The HSV-1 infection can cause genital herpes‚ but is common causes for mouth and lips infections‚ known as “fever blisters”. Teens should always use latex condoms to protect
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H. herpesvirus-3 is an enveloped DNA virus. H. herpesvirus-3 is an Alphaherpesvirinae. In 1888 the relationship between chickenpox and shingles were observed by Von Bokay when children who had not acquired an immunity to H.herpesvirus-3‚ or have never had chickenpox‚ became sick with chickenpox after coming in contact with the latent H.herpesvirus-3‚ or someone who had shingles. It was not until the end of the 19th century that chickenpox was reliably distinguished from small pox. H. herpesvirus-3
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Somehow immune to an unstoppable‚ incurable virus‚ military virologist Robert Neville is now the last human survivor in New York City and maybe the world. But he is not alone. Mutant plague victims lurk in the shadows? watching Neville’s every move? waiting for him to make a fatal mistake. Perhaps mankind’s last‚ best hope‚ Neville is driven by only one remaining mission: to find an antidote using his own immune blood. But he knows he is outnumbered? and quickly running out of time. SYNOPSIS The
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1. INTRODUCTION A. HISTORY OF VIRUS 1. AFRICA‚ ZAIRE 2. 1970 B. SYMPTOMS AND AFFECTS 1. BLEEDING‚ HEMORRHAGING 2. DEATH W/IN 20 DAYS C. CURES 1. NONE KNOWN D. INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS 2. HISTORY OF VIRUS A. WHERE IT STARTED 1. SCIENTISTS B. HOW IT IS SPREAD 1. NON AIRBORNE 2. BODILY CONTACT C. WHERE IT EXISTS TODAY 3. SYMPTOMS AND EFFECTS A. SEVERE FEVER‚ ABDOMINAL PAIN 1. INSIDES "MELT" B. DEATH RATES
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want to get the Marburg virus (Preston 36). These are just some of the symptoms people experienced in Germany in 1967. Marburg was discovered in a factory called the Behring Works. This factory used the kidney cells of African green monkeys to produce vaccines for polio. The marburg virus had been discovered after a shipment of green monkeys had been brought from Uganda. These monkeys carried the Marburg virus‚ thus causing people who cared for these monkeys to get the virus. Several had died from
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