West Nile virus

in order to thrive their civilization. In Ancient Egypt, the Nile River flooded them each annually, although it sounds like it would be a burden. It was easy to manage since the floods were predictable and easy to control. When the river flooded it renewed the farmlands, therefore creating more fertile land to grow their crops in. Besides the fertile land it provide water, and other food sources such as fish. They also used the Nile to transport goods and people from Upper to Lower Egypt. …

had gods to explain the meaning of nature. They had art to explain what was happening in their country. Egyptians life was really interesting. The Nile Valley was the largest river. It was a distance of 4occ miles. The Nile is a protected land because it makes it hard for enemies to come to their land because it of the very hot desserts. The Nile did not have to worry about floods because they don't have much just that every spring they have to deal with lots of floods. The Egyptians took…

The great Egyptian Empire ruled over the Nile river for many centuries. Today, society looks at the feats of the once all powerful empire and marvels and the beautiful architecture and complex customs. The Egyptian Empire truly was a hallmark in human history, but it is surprising to most people that unlike other ancient civilizations, many Egyptian people were literate. This can be seen in the poetry of Deir el Medina. These poems reveal the mentality of the village’s children, towards love,…

and their towns that they built. Before the Egyptian empire, they was a tribe. They were a hunter gatherer society that soon settled. The tribe split up into 2 separate tribes, and settled very far apart from one another. One was on the base of the Nile River in the North, and one in the deep desert of the white lands in the South. The first king of Egypt settled in the deep south of Egypt, which will later be known as the city of Memphis. In this time period the Egyptians were farmers, and…

History Honey 8 October 2015 2. Egypt was provided with one of the most significant rivers of all time, the Nile. The Nile had extremely fertile banks growing food and other crops. One of the most significant features of the Nile was the fact that it had an annual flood which would create fertile soil being brought to the top. This was very important to the Egyptian farmers of the region. The Nile split Egypt into two sections the upper and the lower. The upper was good soil and the lower was…

famous pharaoh had to be king Tut. he became the pharaoh at age nine, he restored the cults of the old gods. He died about 10 years into becoming the pharaoh of egypt. The archaeologists found his body and tomb intact. Egypt developed around the Nile River. Where they are still there today and have been since 3500 bc. Around 3100 bc their writing or hieroglyphics were developed and Narmer united all of Egypt. The first stone pyramid was built around 2700 bc. The pyramids of Giza were…

The Nile River, the very same African river that produced a seemingly unlimited amount of papyrus, apparently also acted as a thoroughfare for imports and exports, including importing papyrus, acacia to other countries, including Israel. The city-port of Heracleion was mentioned by ancient historians. But, until its recent underwater discovery, it was thought to be legend. Also, modern-day scholars dismissed its connection to the River Nile. Herodotus (c. 484–425 BCE) and Strabo (64/63 BCE – c.…

Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) belongs to the Old World arenavirus family of enveloped viruses (Buchmeier et al., 2007). LCMV in particular has served as model organism from many significant studies in the field of immunology such as the Nobel Prize winning study of the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) by Zinkernagel and Doherty (1975). LCMV’s natural reservoirs are the common household rodents (Traub, 1936). Household mice have shown to attain persistent asymptomatic LCMV…

In recent years the field of virology has seen substantial growth as virus have now become a more widely researched subject. It was not too long ago relatively speaking that viruses were more or less an unknown entity, as many facts about viruses were unknown to the days researchers. Now however much more is known about what viruses are and how they work; more importantly it is known that viral agents are one of the leading causes of disease. Once it was established that they did in fact…

As explained by the New World Encyclopedia, the lytic cycle is the life cycle of a virus in which “the virus that has entered a cell takes over the cell 's replication mechanism, makes viral DNA and viral proteins, and then lyses (breaks open) the cell, allowing the newly produced viruses to leave the now disintegrated host cell to infect other…