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kchenvert09

Worst Year of the West Nile - 2 views

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virology Journals west nile

shared by kchenvert09 on 11 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • kchenvert09 on 11 Sep 12
     
    interesting that this is the worst year but I feel that it hasnt been mentioned nearly as much as it has the past couple years
Casey Finnerty

What We're Afraid to Say About Ebola - NYTimes.com - 9 views

www.nytimes.com/...afraid-to-say-about-ebola.html

ebolavirus

shared by Casey Finnerty on 12 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • The first possibility is that the Ebola virus spreads from West Africa to megacities in other regions of the developing world.
  • The second possibility is one that virologists are loath to discuss openly but are definitely considering in private: that an Ebola virus could mutate to become transmissible through the air.
  • The current Ebola virus’s hyper-evolution is unprecedented; there has been more human-to-human transmission in the past four months than most likely occurred in the last 500 to 1,000 years. Each new infection represents trillions of throws of the genetic dice.
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  • In 2012, a team of Canadian researchers proved that Ebola Zaire, the same virus that is causing the West Africa outbreak, could be transmitted by the respiratory route from pigs to monkeys, both of whose lungs are very similar to those of humans.
Casey Finnerty

Cooperative interactions in the West Nile virus mutant swarm - 0 views

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...PMC3358237

virology population biology genomics genetics

shared by Casey Finnerty on 25 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • In addition, our data demonstrate that increasing levels of co-infection can lead to widespread strain complementation, which acts to maintain high levels of phenotypic and genetic diversity and potentially slow selection for individual variants. Lastly, we show that cooperative interactions may lead to swarm fitness levels which exceed the relative fitness levels of any individual genotype.
alexridesducati

4 more kids with neurologic illness - 1 views

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shared by alexridesducati on 02 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • alexridesducati on 02 Oct 14
     
    "Doctors in Colorado spotted it first -- a group of 10 children hospitalized with signs of a neurologic illness: limb weakness, cranial nerve dysfunction and abnormalities in their spinal gray matter..... Tests of the Colorado children's cerebrospinal fluid came back negative for enteroviruses and West Nile virus. But a test of their nasal passages found enterovirus in six out of eight patients who were tested."
  • alexridesducati on 02 Oct 14
     
    Dr. Finnerty asked if I could link this here on Diigo.
  • Casey Finnerty on 03 Oct 14
     
    Thanks Alex.
Casey Finnerty

Ebola in Liberia: Attempt to stop spread of Ebola leads to clashes with community. - 0 views

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shared by Casey Finnerty on 24 Aug 14 - No Cached
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      Casey Finnerty on 24 Aug 14
       
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  • egan as an attempt to quarantine West Point, an Ebola-infected area of the Liberian city of Monrovia, soon became a violent clash between security forces and community members on Wednesday.
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