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Electron micrograph of Coronavirus, the cause of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

Definition

Coronavirus

Coronaviruses are a group of viruses that usually cause mild illnesses, such as the common cold. The coronavirus causing covid-19 is a notable exception.

Bacteriophage viruses attacking bacteria

Question

Are viruses alive?

virus artwork

Health

The zombie world of viruses could hold the key to evolution itself

Features

Sick child with red rash spots from measles

Definition

Measles

People queue at an airport

Health

Doctors scramble to identify mysterious illness emerging in China

News

An open-air market in Hong Kong

Life

African swine fever helps drive world food prices to two-year high

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Transmission electron micrograph of the Rabies Virus. This electron micrograph shows the rabies virus (bright green), as well as Negri bodies (pale green), or cellular inclusions. The rabies virus is a neurotropic virus that causes fatal disease in human and animals. Rabies transmission can occur through the saliva of animals. The rabies virus has a cylindrical morphology and is the type species of the Lyssavirus genus of the Rhabdoviridae family. These viruses are enveloped and have a single stranded RNA genome with negative-sense. Negri bodies are eosinophilic, sharply outlined, pathognomonic inclusion bodies found in the cytoplasm of certain nerve cells containing the virus of rabies.

Health

Improved rabies vaccine could be better and cheaper

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Beating cancer: How viruses are being used to infect and kill tumours

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Beating cancer: How viruses are being used to infect and kill tumours

Features

Norovirus

Technology

A smartphone app can detect tiny amounts of norovirus in water

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The MMR vaccine

Health

There have been more than 1000 cases of measles in the US this year

Measles cases are rising in the US at an alarming rate. There have now been 1164 this year, which is the highest year on record since 1992

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Life

Light pollution's effects on birds may help to spread West Nile virus

News

Health

HPV vaccine has significantly cut rates of cancer-causing infections

News

Definition

Flu

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Gene therapy