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Showing posts with label Virus emergence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Virus emergence. Show all posts

Where did our smallpox vaccine come from?

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Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination Bring to mind the now famous 'first scientific exploration of vaccination', when, in ...

Can we target antivirals to the host cell?

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Two papers published recently explore the idea of targeting antiviral compounds to the host cell using high-throughput organic synthesis and...
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The ecology of virus emergence - the role of rodents and biodiversity

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   The inter-species transmission of viruses and other pathogens (see data below) poses a serious threat to public health, the global econom...

Can we prevent gorilla extinction with vaccination?

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Western Lowland gorilla Gorillas, Gorilla spp . are fo und only throughout central African rainforest where there are in total over 200,0...
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On the origins of smallpox - where and when did variola virus emerge?

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2011 may be the year where the last known officially acknowledged stocks of the deadly smallpox virus, variola are destroyed - a virus that...
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“The virus is ‘dead’. Long ‘live’ the virus.” – what does history say about how virology should develop in the future?

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In the modern world, we are continuously challenged by viral disease; well established pathogens such as the measles and mumps viruses...

Seeing the big picture of RNA virus evolution

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From both a medical and a scientific viewpoint , the evolution of viruses is extremely important to us;  viral adaptation to their ever c...
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