Essays on Viruses

Mosquitoes belonged to the family of nematocerid flies which was the Culicidae (from the Latin culex, genitive culicis, meaning “midge” or “gnat”). Female mosquito was responsible to carry the vector that leads to the disease spread. There were 3000 species of mosquitoes but there were...

The Immune system is the body’s overall defense system against harm causing invaders, that come from the outside world, that are able to inter the body one way or another. The immune system is not an organ or two that do all the work, but...

Dengue fever is a disease which is caused by a family of viruses transmitted by mosquitoes. It is an acute illness of sudden inception followed by the symptoms such as headache, fever, exhaustion, severe muscle and joint pain, swollen lymph nodes (lymphadenopathy), and rash. The...

Millions of people are chronically infected with HBV worldwide despite the use of an effective vaccine. Those infected are at a high risk of developing liver cancer. Although current therapeutic regimens exist that can efficiently suppress viral replication of HBV, the virus has a unique...

Has anyone ever wondered how biotechnology has become a part of everyone’s lives, and how this will keep leading the world towards a better and brighter future? Over the past 10,000 years, biotechnology has been used in many ways. Biotechnology has been applied to numerous...

Paper on viruses Computer viruses are an unfortunate daily occurrence, due to their high prevalence and ability to do a range of things. They can range from simple packet sniffing to data mining to keylogging. In my paper, I will be discussing computer viruses, how...

Influenza pandemics are global outbreaks that result from new variations of the influenza virus emerging in global populations. In order for this to occur, the virus must be easily passed from person to person and cause serious illness to the human body. Major pandemic outbreaks...

Usually most people have heard of influenza, or in other words the flu. The flu is a contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza that infect the nose, throat, and even the lungs. There are three different types of the influenza virus which are: influenza A,...

In an article from the World health organization about respiratory diseases it shows that more than 3 million people die of Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease which approximately makes up 6 percent of all deaths in the world. There are a large amount of documented lung...

The Zika virus is spread through mosquitoes, more specifically Aedes mosquitoes. The name Zika came from the Zika forest in Uganda. The Zika virus was first discovered in 1947 in monkeys and apes, but the first human cases of Zika showed up in 1952 in...

Measles virus is a highly contagious virus that is common in mainly young people but can be contracted by any person. It is not common in animals. The known origin of the measles virus is from the divergence from the rinderpest virus between the eleventh...

Human Papilloma Virus/ Genital Warts and Herpes The Human Papilloma Virus otherwise more commonly known as HPV is the most widespread sexually transmitted disease in the US. There are millions of new cases that are being diagnosed annually. According to Medical News Today, “Each year,...

Viral Disease: Structure: Viral diseases are often associated as not living as they do not move and stay on the outside of a hosts cell. They are made up from strands of nucleic acids, these consist of either DNA or RNA, which are surrounded by...

Multiple Sclerosis (MS), a neurodegenerative, inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS), is idiopathic, despite of its description over 150 years ago. Throughout the years, a long list of viruses has been associated with multiple sclerosis (MS); however, no virus to date has...

Human papilloma virus (HPV) can appear just about anywhere on the body. The most common locations are mouth, anus and genitals where moist mucous membranes exist. Some common symptoms are warts, small, big, white, beige or brown skin growths and even several different types of...

Polio also known as poliomyelitis was an infectious disease caused by a virus that occupied the throat and intestinal tract. It spread through person-to-person contact along with spreading through feces, and sneezing from an infected person. Polio affected humanity throughout recorded history, it attacks the...

The Anna Kournikova worm Anna Kournikova (named by its author as “Vbs.OnTheFly Created By OnTheFly”) was a computer worm written by a 20-year-old Dutch student named Jan de Wit who called himself ‘OnTheFly’ on February 11, 2001. It was designed to trick email users into...

In part one of this series, we discussed exactly what ransomware is, including the effects of and motives behind different types of attacks. In this second article, I’ll look at the top seven ransomware attacks within the past decade and how they managed to infiltrate...

Pneumonia is a disease in one or both lungs caused by bacteria, viruses or fungi. However, bacterial pneumonia is the most common type found in adults. Pneumonia causes alveoli, which is inflammation in the air sacs in your lungs. The alveoli can make breathing difficult...

Transmission of pathogenic human disease can occur under many different circumstances. One mode of transmission that is of interest to people is the transmission of microbes on surfaces. A surface for transmission can range from a doorknob to our very own hands. Nonliving surfaces involved...

When we hear the word virus, what primarily comes to our mind is a very small organism which causes infections. We also remember that they can only grow in the body of other living materials. Yet another annoying detail is that they can infect every...

The term “virus” has been used as a catchall phrase for many threats. Essentially, a virus is a computer program that, like a medical virus, has the ability to replicate and infect other computers. Viruses are transmitted over networks or via USB drives and other...

Human rhinoviruses (HRVs) first discovered in the1950s in an effort to identifythe etiology of common cold. About 60 years later the search for a “cure” for the common coldvirus infection is still ongoing. Studies have revealed that HRV has been detected in patients with respiratory...

A microorganism is a living organism and they can only be seen through a microscope. Bacteria Bacteria cells are prokaryotic cells (single celled organisms). Bacteria cells have a variety of different organelles including a single circular strand of DNA, plasmids (small rings of DNA), a...

Today there is an urgent need to design and synthesized novel anti-infective agent due to the rising resistance towards usual antibiotics. Pyrazole is a five membered heterocyclic compound occupy a pivotal position in modern medicinal chemistry and a large volume of research has been carried...

Plant disease resistance give protection the plants from pathogens in the two ways :by performes structures and chemicals and to the induced response of immune system. Disease resistance is the reduction from the pathogens that are growing into are onto the plant. it elaborate the...

Introduction Bluetongue virus is from the genus Orbivirus in the family Reoviridae. Bluetongue virus is a non-zoonotic disease of ruminants like sheep, cattle, and deer that is believed to have originated in South Africa as early as the 18th century. This virus was first known...

Predators, particularly fishes like Gambusia, Tilapia, Poeciellia and Aphanius dispar dispar. Even viruses can be used to kill mosquitoes. These viruses are beneficial because they are species-specific, non – toxic to humans and easy to distribute. Protozoans, microsporidia, Metarhizium anisopliae, Beauveria tenella, Lagenidium giganteum, and...

As we grow more advanced in this world we make new discoveries each and every day. Our medical research technologies have grown more advanced in the recent years and will continue to grow in the coming up years. One of the most researched and tested...

Dengue Fever Virus (DENV) is one of the life-threatening diseases which are caused by pests that transfers infectious agents from a living organism to another that causes serious illnesses. It has become the most endemic tropical disease in the Philippines especially during rainy season, starting...