Of Mice, Men, and Microbes: HantavirusElsevier, 28 июн. 1999 г. - Всего страниц: 278 In May 1993, a cluster of cases of a lethal disease among healthy young people brought the attention of the world to the southwestern deserts. A previously unknown disease was killing up to 80% of the people it infected. The reaction in the area and across the nation mixed fear, lack of information, and the struggles of doctors to save the victims of an unknown killer with hard science and the age old rhythmns of the desert. What came out was the story of a virus that had been killing since man arrived in the American continents, Hantavirus, with deadly relatives across the Americas and across the world. This book explains why and how the virus kills, and why it is still killing today. Why all of the science aimed at a virus identified back in 1993 has not brought a vaccine or a cure is part of the story, as is how that killer virus fits into the story of "new" diseases across the world. The story of hantavirus disease, what has happened since that first outbreak, and what the real risks are is laid out by an experienced scientist and an award winning journalist living and working in the area of the 1993 outbreak.
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... viruses in their hosts (or victims), describing how viruses gain entry to the cells, what they do to cause disease, and how our immune system is mobilized to the defense. But viruses are moving targets, changing their genetic make-u to ...
... viruses, for example. Work is performed in a cabinet that deflects an airflow away from the user to prevent infection. Level Three is for threatening, lethal diseases; the human immunodeficiency (AIDS) virus is one example. Samples are ...
... viruses, they were inoculated into laboratory rodents, the best way to detect an unknown virus. At the same time, blood from patients was being tested for antibodies using a range of stored material from possible infectious agents. If ...
... viruses that use RNA, and with RNA a special enzyme is used to copy it to DNA, ready for P R. Once the genes of the virus are copied, as long as the sequence is known or even half known, it is possible to look for them, copy them, and ...
... viruses, this method stood the best chance of detecting a related virus. The two types of hantavirus known at that time were those that infect ''Old World'' rats and mice (Murinae) and those that infect voles (Arvicolinae). Hantaviruses ...
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CHAPTER 5 OF MICE AND MEN | 59 |
CHAPTER 6 AT LAST A PLAN | 79 |
OUT OF ASIA | 99 |
CHAPTER 8 OTHER HANTAVIRUSES | 117 |
CHAPTER 11 CHANGES CONCEALMENT AND TROJAN HORSES | 163 |
CHAPTER 12 COUSINS | 183 |
CHAPTER 13 WHAT WE KNOW | 199 |
CHAPTER 14 HOW TO STOP A VIRUS | 215 |
CHAPTER 15 OUTBREAKS | 233 |
Centers for Disease Control Guidelines on Prevention of HPS | 249 |
Sources of Further Information | 257 |
Abbreviations | 264 |
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Of Mice, Men, and Microbes: Hantavirus David Richard Harper,Andrea S. Meyer Недоступно для просмотра - 1999 |
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