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There are two main ways that a virus is thought to enter the brain via hematogenous spread. The first is by infecting an immune cell, which then carries the virus to the nervous tissue. Viral examples of this include the JC virus which infects B cells and HIV which infects CD4 T cells and macrophages to infiltrate the brain.
One way that viruses have been able to spread is with the evolution of virus transmission. The virus can find a new host through: [32] Droplet transmission: the virus is spread to a new host through bodily fluids (an example is the influenza virus) [33] Airborne transmission: the virus is passed on through the air (an example is viral ...
The H5N1 virus is a particularly lethal strain of influenza. Currently, it can infect humans, but it is not contagious between humans. Still, over 600 people worldwide are known to have died from animal-transmitted H5N1 virus, [13] so the transmissibility of the virus is of major concern to scientists.
Here’s what to know about COVID in 2024.
The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus. The new ...
Scientists from the U.S. and elsewhere had no role in that study, and the research occurred while the pandemic was still boiling, with a lot about the virus still unknown.
To enter the cells, proteins on the surface of the virus interact with proteins of the cell. Attachment, or adsorption, occurs between the viral particle and the host cell membrane. A hole forms in the cell membrane, then the virus particle or its genetic contents are released into the host cell, where replication of the viral genome may commence.
Researchers at Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute are working on a drug that takes one of the virus’s most dangerous traits — its talent for mutation — and turns it back on itself.