He has recently developed a research interest in understanding the securitization and structural violence of the Ebola Virus Disease in Africa.
The researchers say no direct link between the virus and disease has been established.
Researchers also found how the Marek's disease virus may also encourage tumour growth.
Victims of Borna disease virus (BDV) suffer from depression, exhaustion and walking difficulties.
The Marek's disease virus switches off the genes controlled by HIC1, meaning it turns off key genes that would normally work to block tumours.
"The foot-and-mouth-disease virus epidemic in the UK in 2001 was disastrous and cost the economy billions of pounds in control measures and compensation, " explained Dr Bryan Charleston, Head of Livestock Viral Diseases Programme at the Pirbright Institute.
The test can be configured to a unique signature of a disease or virus - such as a protein found on the surface of HIV.
In 2006 researchers from the Hebrew University in Israel isolated a variant of the virus that causes Newcastle disease, a highly contagious disease in birds that can kill.
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Experts urged Chinese health authorities to keep testing healthy birds, saying the H7N9 virus can infect birds without causing disease, making it harder to detect than the H5N1 bird flu virus that is more familiar to Asian countries.
Gemayel says that aside from the giveaway, Roche has a clear marketing message for the new treatment, which combats hepatitis C virus and the chronic liver disease it causes.
But in animals, scientists have seen a coronavirus switch from being a diarrheal disease to a respiratory disease as the virus becomes lodged in a different tissue and genetically evolves.
Uganda's Ministry of Health declared the outbreak in Kibaale district Saturday after getting confirmatory results from the Uganda Virus Research Institute identifying the disease as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Sudan strain.
This year, a year in which the vaccine is supposed to be a good match to the virus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates the vaccine is only 62% effective.
The bugs mutate, and we try to find way to cure a disease caused by mutated virus.
Apparently, CJD is brought on by the same virus that causes "mad cow disease, " also known as BSE.
"When something like this happens, if there was disease or illness or virus, other horses would already be coming out, " he said.
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Infectious disease specialists believe the virus is very difficult to catch.
Mayo Clinic vaccine researcher Gregory Poland counts more than a dozen new diseases that have emerged in the last few decades: HIV, Lyme disease, West Nile virus, avian influenza.
Small studies in ferrets at the CDC suggest that when compared with seasonal flu, the virus appears to cause more severe disease but also seems to spread less easily.
In the U.S., the smallpox virus is kept at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.
"Most of us agree this virus is not a single-drug disease, " says Dr. Jeffrey Crippin of Washington University School of Medicine in St.
We use the word virus deliberately to make the analogy with disease bearing vectors and in the absence of a sufficiently large number of hosts epidemics and pandemics simply die out.
One way is to deliver the bit of the virus you want the killer cells to respond to using another virus which doesn't cause human disease a sort of vaccine Trojan horse.
He noticed that milkmaids who had developed cowpox from contact with cow udders were protected from the human form of the disease, and the cowpox virus became the basis of his vaccine.
In a big study, a Merck vaccine prevented early forms of cervical cancer from developing, bolstering hopes that the new product, called Gardasil, could strike a major blow against the disease and the sexually transmitted virus that causes it.
Several years ago plans to destroy the remaining legal stocks of the virus that causes smallpox a disease supposedly now eradicated were dropped on advice from America's intelligence services, among others, that North Korea and other countries were secretly experimenting with the stuff.
In a big study, a Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ) vaccine prevented early forms of cervical cancer from developing, bolstering hopes that the new product, called Gardasil, could strike a major blow against the disease and the sexually transmitted virus that causes it.
The virus is believed to have first occurred in 2004 among greyhounds, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and stemmed from a mutated equine flu virus that jumped species from horses to dogs.
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