Viruses

Viruses are the worst enemies of farmers. Until now, many viruses continue to attack, and even become more virulent. They have been inflicting diseases from one squash to the other, making them lose their supposedly excellent quality, even killing them. But as people learned crop protection, biotechnology was established. In today’s time wherein crop pests become more and more pervasive due to climate change, scientists have discovered the solution to control them, without the farmers having to

Goldberg’s Article as Wakeup Call on Contagious Diseases Even Now Goldberg’s article, “Microbes on the Move,” contains a personal, narrative story and few other short stories about easily spreadable viruses. In the personal story, the narrator tells about his adventure in East Africa where he contracted malaria while hiking on a mountain, but his life was saved by the park ranger and doctor. He added a note at the end of the story that one million Africans are killed by malaria each year due to lack

Uganda in 1947. Nonetheless, fear didn’t start arising until this year 2016. This virus is best explained as discomfort in the muscle, a fever, being weak and symptoms possibly lasting for days. It’s quite a different virus to detect compare to other viruses’ symptoms. Zika posts danger to the human body but more importantly, it places pregnant women and babies at more danger than anyone else. This virus can be easily passed from a pregnant women to her fetus, putting her life and her child life in danger

Norovirus Viruses affect us in our everyday life and they have become something that is not an abnormal phenomenon or a fatal occurrence like it was in olden times. (Alic and Longe , 2015) Likewise, the viruses that affect us have much impact of what the actual disease is. Norovirus being an example of a virus that affects our daily lives and can be fatal. (Longe

A Child’s Battle with Rotavirus: 1999 Drawback through 2006 Draw Out According to the research of the American Academy of Pediatrics in their official Pediatric journal, one term defines a whole field of the relationship exchange between the child and his or her pediatrician. A “medical home” was once used to conclude all the medical information about a patient, but nowadays can be delineated a“ partnership approach with families to provide primary health care that is assessable, family centered

The recent spread of the fatal Zika virus throughout Central and South America has left the world in shock. The entrance the virus into Miami has enhanced the scare even more. Now that it has become a realistic problem to the United States, the thought of personal safety comes to mind. There is a global panic erupting and it is obvious that this disease needs to be stopped. This mosquito-transmitted infection can be passed onto a human with as little as one bite, and because it is a virus, there

Introduction: Viruses and bacteria have always been a major problem in our world. From the flu, to the common cold eventually everyone has gotten sick at least once. Exactly how those viruses spread varies greatly due to multiple different factors. Viruses are non-living organisms which means that they do not reproduce independently but must replicate by invading other living cells. If a virus gets into a blood stream it can potentially kill someone within days. But because it can not reproduce

Viruses are one of the oldest and most diverse creations in the world. Viruses which are obligate intracellular parasites are studied by many who try to understand them and try to prove how they work, where they come from and how to classify them. The Baltimore system classifies them by how they replicate and the composition of their genome but classifying viruses is quite difficult. Viruses are not able to replicate on their own and require a host in which they hijack their cellular machinery and

There are many debates on whether viruses are living or nonliving cells. Viruses are organisms that infect living cells around its area. The characteristics of life describe a living cell and viruses only exemplify a few of those things such as adapting to their environment and containing a well-organized system. While viruses do portray some characteristics of life, they don’t reproduce, grow/develop, or display metabolism. Based on these viruses are not living. Many individuals assume that reproduction

I believe that viruses are not living. A virus is nothing more than the genetic material it carries and the protein or lipids its shell is made up of. It has nothing to help it function like organs for complex organisms or organelles for a cell. A cell needs organelles to perform tasks to help keep it living. It needs one to produce proteins, one to break down food, and so on. A virus needs none of that and that proves it is not alive. Living things need to be able to make energy out of something