Apr
21
2009
Understanding Viral Infection
Posted by Andrew Routledge in cellular physiology, cellular structure, fecal contamination, food hygiene, Food Microorganisms, Miscellaneous, viruses, Water Quality, tags: blood transfusion, chicken pox, cow pox, dengue, diarrhea, DNA, ebola virus, german measels, good personal hygiene, hepatitis, HIV, host specific, intestine, junin, leprosy, living organisms, lysis, machupo, meningitis, mumps, nausea, pneumonia, polio, prophylactic medicine, rabies, rift valley fever, RNA, saliva, small pox red meassles, vector, villi, viral mutations, viral pneumonia, viremia, virus, warts, water supply, western nile fever, whooping cough, yellow fever, zoonotic encephalitisViruses change the structure of their cell walls through mutations. This is part of the evolutionary success of viruses. The sheer numbers by which they replicate themselves leaves every statistical possibility for viral mutations to occur.
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