Hepatitis B virus

sites you may visit and unsafe attachments you may receive in an email. An attacker will do whatever is necessary to break into a network. Computer viruses can do a lot of damage to your computer. Many people have created a software to prevent a virus from harming computers. Everyone gets emails from stores you have shopped at. Some of these emails have attachments you have to download to view. I only download items I get from people I know. For example, my brother plays hockey and the manager…

Logic bombs fall under the same category as Trojan horses and viruses. They set themselves off when a user unknowingly types in a certain code. They are often used to permanently delete large amounts of important data. Criminals put malicious software onto computers through “spam” (Seigel, 2014, 540). Spam is often in the form of an advertisement that randomly appear in people’s Internet browsers or emails. Once a user clicks on them, their computer becomes encrypted with the infected code, thus…

Richard Preston really wrote this book to keep the reader anxious the entire time. Each individual that he interviewed was well aware of how severe of constant concern of transmission from the virus. I found myself shuttering with chills when people would recollect their experiences with possibly contracting the virus by an accident exposure. When Preston wrote about Nancy Jaxx’s thoughts before entering the level four hot zone, they really resonated with…

Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is a viral infection that affects young children and infants, but may also affect adults. RSV belongs to the family of paramyxoviruses and is classified in the genus pneumoviruses. There are at least ten polypeptides of RSV that exist. RSV is an ssRNA, enveloped virus ranging in size from 120-300nm, its envelope contains two proteins and two glycoproteins, according to virology-online. It has two subtypes A and B with, it is believed that subtype A exhibits…

Epidemiology Hemophilia is one of the most dangerous inherited bleeding disorders, affecting people from the entire world in equal frequency. Overall, the affected population frequency is low and the diagnosis of this disease is inherited about 70% of the time. Sometimes, hemophilia can occur when there is no family history of it and this is called sporadic hemophilia, having approximately 30% of people with non-inherited hemophilia, caused by a change in the person’s own genes…

dormant until another time. A common example of this type of virus is the Varicella Zoster virus. This is the virus that causes chicken pox in children and young adults, but is also the culprit for shingles in elder adults. Varicella Virus has the ability to “hide out” from the body’s immune system until the time is right to strike. The Varicella Zoster Virus is a part of the Herpesvirdae family[1]. Characteristics of this class of virus are a primary infection…

passages in embryonated eggs and then in CEF cultures (Cho et al., 1979). Turkey and duck embryo cells, mammalian cell line derived from rabbit kidneys (RK-13), monkey kidneys (Vero) and baby grivet monkey kidney cells (BGM-70) were susceptible for virus growth besides chicken cells (Lukert and Saif,…

The Virus Change Are we to blame for the world of the unseen changing at an alarming rate? Throughout the last few decades, the world of viruses have changed. Some harmful viruses are spreading more faster and easier than they ever had before, and there have been some resurrections of some old viruses. The recent changes in the world of viruses are not a natural occurrence but brought on by humanity. One of the main reason for the changes in the virus worlds as we know it is the latest changes…

ZIKA VIRUS Zika virus is center of an ongoing pandemic and public health emergency with serious medical and economic consequences. (Plourde and Bloch, 2016). Zika virus belongs to the family of flavivirus which includes other mosquitoborn viruses like chikungunya virus, dengue virus, yellow fever virus and West Nile virus (Plourde and Bloch, 2016). Zika virus is transmitted to people primarily through the bite of an infected Aedes species mosquito (Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus), other Aedes…

from the shingles virus for up to five years. There are only a few side effects of the shingles vaccine. They include soreness, swelling, redness in 33% of people who use the vaccine. Also, headaches in 1.4% of people who use the vaccine. Shingles, for the most part, isn't a very severe virus. It can be treated with simple care and no surgery. Most of the time the shingles virus will never come back after the first outbreak. Shingles comes from the chickenpox virus and is put inside…