News


 * For each reading, find a current event article (either in paper format or online) about viruses to share with us. If it is a website, tag the link and write a brief description below. If it is a newspaper article (or other paper), just write a brief description with a citation. Bring your article into class.**

For whoever has this role this week: here is a website I found today that may help you with a current event: [|Bee Virus]


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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/04/050426215024.htm

New research shows that a protein produced by a cancer-causing virus influences a key signaling pathway in the immune cells that the virus infects. This stimulates the cells to divide, helping the virus spread through the body.

Ebola Virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo:

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/82300.php

Monday, September 10th, it was confirmed by the Congolese ministry of Health that there is an outbreak of Ebola Fever in the West Kasai province in central Democratic Republic of Congo. Laboratories around the world, including one in Atlanta, verified the virus's presence. Out of 9,000 people, there have been 362 possible cases, and 166 people have died. The patients' symptoms consist of: fever, headaches, vomiting, and in minimal cases, external bleeding. Patients are being isolated so the disease does not spread, and the doctors wear protective clothing so that they do not get infected.

http://www.dundasstarnews.com/dsn/news/news_882384.html


 * this is not an actual break out...yet... it is awaiting confirmation**

West Nile Virus:(sept 21, 2007) In the City of Hamilton has encountered its first, probable, case of the West Nile virus, for 2007. The public health services are still waiting for confirmation of tests. the one suspected of infection is a female in her early 60s in Dundas. In the area, where found, three positive mosquito trap results and four positive bird results in Hamilton(posiive for carrying West Nile). Most people infected with West Nile virus will have no symptoms or a very mild illness with fever.

west nile definition (compliments of dictionary.com): a type of flavirus mainly infecting birds and mosquitos but also transmitted by them to humans and other animals, causing flu-like symptoms (West Nile fever) which may lead to encephalitis and meningitis and having no known treatment

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL1778122020070817?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews

On July 14 a gold miner died in Uganda a week later another is confrimed to have survived the rare viral hemorrhagic disease.

Avian Flu continues to spread in as many as 55 countires, Indonesia being the most ffected as of early 2007, with 54 reported deaths http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:21178498~pagePK:64257043~piPK:437376~theSitePK:4607,00.html

http://www.news-medical.net/?id=7751

Just as in the book, the most recent outbreaks of Ebola have all come from the handling of animal carcasses such as gorillas, chipanzees, and even some species of antelope. This article talks about ways of controlling ebola, simply by lessening the hunting of these animals.