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Polio was eliminated from most parts of the world as part of a decadeslong effort by the World Health Organization and partners to wipe out the disease. Until it is gone from the planet, the virus ...
Virus latency (or viral latency) is the ability of a pathogenic virus to lie dormant within a cell, denoted as the lysogenic part of the viral life cycle. [1] A latent viral infection is a type of persistent viral infection which is distinguished from a chronic viral infection. Latency is the phase in certain viruses' life cycles in which ...
The eradication of infectious diseases is the reduction of the prevalence of an infectious disease in the global host population to zero. [ 1 ] Two infectious diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox in humans , and rinderpest in ruminants .
Since 1994, the Pakistan Polio Eradication Programme has been fighting to end the crippling poliovirus from the country. The initiative is driven by up to 339,521 trained and dedicated polio workers, [15] the largest surveillance network in the world, [16] quality data collection and analysis, behavioral change communication, state of the art laboratories, and some of the best epidemiologists ...
Infectious disease experts remain vigilant for signs of next major outbreak
[103] [104] The Europeans infected with such diseases typically carried them in a dormant state, were actively infected but asymptomatic, or had only mild symptoms. [ 105 ] Smallpox was the most destructive disease that was brought by Europeans to the Native Americans, both in terms of morbidity and mortality.
It’s a good time to brush up on what scientists know, and still don’t know, about how long people remain infectious with viral diseases — Covid, influenza, RSV — that are spreading across ...
Persistent virus could lead to symptoms via possible effects on coagulation and via microbiome and neuroimmune abnormalities. [49] During or after acute COVID infection, various dormant viruses can become reactivated. For instance, SARS-COV-2 can reactivate the Epstein-Barr virus, the virus that is responsible for infectious mononucleosis. This ...