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Monday, November 19, 2012

The Age Of The Super Virus: Why We Should Be Concerned


16/11/2012 


As of 12 November, three people - all members of the same family - were suspected to have died from the Ebola virus, a viral hemorrhagic fever, in Luwero District, 50km northwest of Kampala.
Five people who had close contact with the dec..

..The greatest worry the world has right now in medicine is the creation of the Super virus. The swine flu, Marburg and Ebola virus are deadly and the Swine flu virus spreads quickly so now imagine if you mixed both characteristics, high contagious and deadly and you have the super virus. Viruses have the ability to transform and change quickly and moving from specie to specie at will.
A cow could get a virus which is not dangerous in humans and then spread it to its herder inside of whom, if the conditions are right, it can mutate into a strain that is particularly dangerous to human beings.
The Marburg and Ebola viruses are examples of this inter species transmission from monkey to human.
Furthermore there’s the worry of drug resistance. It’s ironic because the very medicine’s that are supposed to help us will in the long run create stronger, more drug resistant strains of viruses due to their ability to evolve.

The greatest danger lies in the fact that health care sectors are woefully unprepared. Health care in Uganda..

http://www.chimpreports.com/index.php/people/health/6996-the-age-of-the-super-virus-why-we-should-be-concerned.html