MICR 2420 Lecture 17: Lecture 17 Viruses

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Microbiology
• Course: MICR 2420
• Professor: Lucy Mutharia

Document Summary

Its genome is already messenger rna and can be used right away for making proteins. It is transmitted through blood, genital or oral-genital contact, mother- to - child. Hiv causes aids: hiv evolved from viruses infecting african monkeys, two major types are recognized: hiv-1 and hiv-2, 1981, first cases of hiv were reported in the usa, western society failed to grasp the significance of the virus. Largely ignored because it affected / was reported in marginalized minority groups. Since the beginning of the epidemic, 78 million people have been infected with the virus, about. 39m have died of hiv: 2013: globally 35m people were living with hiv, approximately 50,000 people in the united states are newly infected with hiv each year. In canada, 1 in 5 people with hiv are unaware that they are infected. French virologist luc montagnier and american virologist robert gallo published their discovery of the virus in the same issue of science in 1983.