Howard Hughes Medical Institute: Confronting the Microbe Menace
Section 1-8
- What I like about being a scientist:
- How do new epidemics arise?
- New diseases arise from disruption of virus-host equilibrium:
- Genetic changes in viruses: mutation and recombination
- High Rate of Mutation in RNA
Section 12
12. Influenza virus: Protein & genomic structure
13. Pathology of influenza
22. Environmental changes can cause new epidemics: Hantavirus
24. How did human migration effect epidemic patterns: Smallpox
25. Why was smallpox the most severe among Native Americans?
Student Questions
Can we create a vaccine that covers all influenza strains?
How do DNA viruses work?
Can different species of bacteria and viruses trade genes?
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