Aside from birds, pigs are one vital candidate in the transmisson of flu.
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Hi Readers!
Researchers are eyeing on another source of flu virus that may pose greater threat to humans more than bird flu due to their more-than-close association with us.
Just recently, researchers are looking at the possibility of the spread of a pig flu virus. Pigs are more biologically similar in function and structure with humans than in birds. This fact provides more reason that a subtle pig flu outbreak may expedite a more deadly contamination with humans and may start a world-wide panick which most of us are totally unprepared.
Viruses differ in their ability to infect animals and plants and may well jump from one organism to another and possibly start a whole new strain. This "species jumping" is caused by the virus' ability to change genetically and add another host of animals in their infection list.
As stated in our previous post, viruses lacks the ability to repair specific genome damage during replication of their genetic material. This apparent biological infirmity confers the organism the ability to undergo dramatic change from one strain to another rendering most organisms unable to cope up with attcks due to lack of preformed defenses (antibodies) .
Likewise, dogs, seals, horses, and ferrets are more prone to these attacks and pose greater theat to the the survival of the human population.
Julius
Researchers are eyeing on another source of flu virus that may pose greater threat to humans more than bird flu due to their more-than-close association with us.
Just recently, researchers are looking at the possibility of the spread of a pig flu virus. Pigs are more biologically similar in function and structure with humans than in birds. This fact provides more reason that a subtle pig flu outbreak may expedite a more deadly contamination with humans and may start a world-wide panick which most of us are totally unprepared.
Viruses differ in their ability to infect animals and plants and may well jump from one organism to another and possibly start a whole new strain. This "species jumping" is caused by the virus' ability to change genetically and add another host of animals in their infection list.
As stated in our previous post, viruses lacks the ability to repair specific genome damage during replication of their genetic material. This apparent biological infirmity confers the organism the ability to undergo dramatic change from one strain to another rendering most organisms unable to cope up with attcks due to lack of preformed defenses (antibodies) .
Likewise, dogs, seals, horses, and ferrets are more prone to these attacks and pose greater theat to the the survival of the human population.
Julius
2 comments:
Sorry dude ngayon lang ako nagparamadam. Oks lang ako last se, tuloy pa rin ako this sem. Kaklase pa rin ba kita???
Sulat ka!
Oo pare enrolled ako sa morpho at sced 250. cgurado ganun din ang mga subjects mo. :) sobrang busy ko na grabe! madalang nalang akong mag update ng blog. ingat lagi! Si pareng arvin hindi narin nagpaparamdam hehe. :)
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