Microbiology and Immunology 2500A/B Lecture 1: Intro to Virology
30 Jun 2016
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When an indiana girl came back to the us, she attended a school gathering with 500 students, and she transmitted the virus to 34 individuals. Because measles virus is the most infectious virus that exists. People infected were unvaccinated against the measles virus. These patients were not vaccinated because of ideological reasons. We thought measles was obliterated but it"s coming back due to people not getting vaccinated. In 2013, 10 deaths occurred because of influenza a. If you look at # of individuals infected by h1n1, it affects a lot of people from age 20-44 usually viruses affects older people, but this virus infects younger people. Last year ebola infected almost 20 000 people in africa. But they introduced vaccines and liberia"s ebola has been eliminated they"re coming from whales, which gets infected and then sheds the viruses, and will permeate in the whole ocean.
