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  • Biological Viruses: All Time Enemies - 1,170 words
    Biological Viruses: All Time Enemies First came fever. Then Hamid Mansaray, a young nurse's aide at a remote African hospital, began to hemorrhage. Blood erupted from his nose and mouth. It burst out of capillaries beneath his skin and eyes. By the time I reached the village of Panguma in Serria Leone, Mansaray lay isolated in a special ward. Doctors had diagnosed an obscure illness called Lassa fever. Its cause was a virus, an infective agent so small that 100,000 of them clumped together would still scarcely be visible. Viruses are little more than bundles of genes - strands of DNA or RNA, the molecules that carry the blueprints for all life. Yet viruses are far from simple. They invade ar ...
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  • Biological Viruses: All Time Enemies - 1,132 words
    ... a rash of fluid-filled blisters that begin as red spots covering most of the body and the inside of the mouth. The disease is dangerous to newborns, to people first infected in adulthood, and to those in whom the virus remains dormant in nerve cells, erupting as the more painful and sometimes chronic zoster (shingles) later in life. VZV is a member of the Herpes virus family, which also includes the causative agents of infectious mononucleosis, roseola, and oral and genital herpes (Microsoft Encarta 96 Encyclopedia). An extremely contagious viral disease, chiefly of children, characterized by early fever, an eruption of papules and vesicles, and mild constitutional disturbances. In most ...
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  • Chicken Pox - 1,043 words
    Chicken Pox Chicken Pox is a viral infection caused by the varicella-zoster virus, a type of herpes virus. It is contracted by contact with actual lesions or by respiratory secretions and there is a 10-21 day incubation period during which your child is developing the illness but does not show any symptoms and is not contagious (until the very last 1 or 2 days before the pox appear.). Once the vesicles show up there are likely to be many more on the way for between 3 and 7 more days and your child is contagious throughout this whole period until there are no new lesions for at least 24 hours and the old lesions are dry or scabbed. This virus is unusual in several ways, one way being that it ...
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  • Herpes - 418 words
    Herpes Herpes is the number 1 STD in the World. At least seven herpes viruses are in the world today. The most common viruses are Herpes Simplex 1 and 2. Other types are Epstein-Barr virus(EBV), Varicella Zoster Virus(VZV), which also causes Chicken Pox and Shingles, Cytomegalovirus(CMV), And Human Herpes Virus(HHV). Also, there are lots of herpes viruses for animals. Most of these are not infectious towards humans. Herpes is spreading at a rate of 1/2 million people a year. 1 in 6 adults have the virus. Herpes is spread only by direct contact. If you have herpes somewhere on your body, it wont show up anywhere else, unless you touch the active virus and then touch another part of the body o ...
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  • There Are Many Common Myths Surrounding Herpes And Some Are Very Believable Hopefully, Any Misconceptions That You Have Of He - 1,815 words
    There are many common myths surrounding herpes and some are very believable. Hopefully, any misconceptions that you have of herpes will be cleared up or any questions that you may have about herpes will be answered in the following pages. So read further and you may learn something about herpes, and if you dont and you already know all there is to know about herpes, well this may refresh your memory. Herpes, n. - in pathology, an acute inflammatory virus disease of the skin or mucous membrane, characterized by the eruption of small blisters on the skin and mucous membrane. There are two types of the herpes virus, known as type 1 and type 2. Genital herpes is a common infection caused by the ...
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