Kristine Bryson
Overseas with the Norwalk Virus The Norwalk virus is part of a group called the Noroviruses and caliciruses. It is known to cause gastroenteritis, infection within food, food poisoning, and even the short lived nonbacterial gastroenteritis. It can spread from contaminated water and infected foods. It can even spread anywhere, even on a cruise ship. A pleasant vacation may have some passengers choosing to jump ship, if the Norwalk virus is a passenger on board.
The virus has received its name from its birth in Norwalk Ohio. It was responsible for a short term outbreak of gastroenteritis occurring in the students of Bronson elementary school in November of 1968. It wasn’t until 1972 the virus was examined and received its name as the Norwalk virus. Since its known birth, there have been many outbreaks with similar symptoms reported. It is believed the virus may belong to the family Caliciviridae. The Norwalk virus is actually part of a group of single-stranded RNA, non-enveloped viruses. Once a person is infected with the virus it begins to copy itself within small intestines. The symptoms would develop between 12 and 48 hours and tend to last 1-3 days.
In reality, the viruses from the Caliciviridae cause nearly 18% of all the short term gastroenteritis cases worldwide. The Norwalk virus is responsible for the small scale outbreaks that occur on cruise ships. Unfortunately, people who have been infected by the virus can spread it directly to other people
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Hand, foot, and mouth are parts of human body have the highest change to get contagious infection. There are many viruses but Enterovirus groups, (most common is the coxsackie virus) is the main factor. These viruses can spread through direct contact from person to person especially with those have bad habits such as: unusually washed hands or surfaces contaminated with feces. An infected person’s saliva, stool, or respiratory secretions can transmit the infection.
While abnormalities are apparent in intestinal epithelial cells of norovirus-infected volunteers, electron microscopy analysis reveals that these cells remain intact [69,70]. Crypt cell hyperplasia has also been reported following norovirus infection [71,73]. Only proximal intestinal biopsies from infected individuals were obtained in early volunteer studies so it remains to be determined whether the distal intestine is also affected by norovirus infection. In addition to enterocyte changes, norovirus infection results in a mild inflammatory infiltration into the lamina propria that has been observed in humans infected with the Norwalk [69,71] and Hawaii viruses [70,72], gnotobiotic calves infected with the human GII.4 norovirus HS66 [74], and mice infected with murine norovirus 1 (MNV-1) [75]. A recent study also reports an increased number of intraepithelial cytotoxic T cells in the duodenum of norovirus-infected patients 0–6 days after symptom onset
Introduction: Over time we come to realize a lot of things we have to live life with right under our nose and right at our door step. one of the worst and on going things we have to deal with are Viruses. there are a wide range of different types of viruses, from ones that can kill you ,to ones that we don't even know we have, some are contagious , and some are not, and also the dreaded air borne viruses. One virus that is not commonly mentioned is Valley Fever.
Hantaviruses are a genus of virus that are single-stranded, negative-sensed RNA viruses with a tripartite genome, represented by 45 different species across a worldwide distribution (Dearing and Dizney, 2010). They are pathogens primarily hosted by small mammals, in the family Muridae, with rats and mice making up the majority of these hosts. Hantaviruses first came to be known when two major disease events occurring in the twentieth century lead to the discovery of both old and new world hantaviruses (Johnson et al 2010). Old world hantavirus were first discovered during the Korean War (1950-1953) when over 3,000 U.N and Korean soldiers became stricken with hemorrhagic fever with
Nipah virus, Arena Virus and Francisella tularensis are bioterrorism agents. They work in various ways to harm the host. Francisella tularenis is considered a Tier 1 bioterrorism agent and Nipah virus is an overlap select agent that affects humans and agriculture both. They have been harmful in the past. Though, Nipah virus is a newer virus than the other two. This review will focus on their emergence, pathogenicity and symptoms of the diseases they cause.
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There are many things that could have contributed to all those kids and the chaperones getting sick. Things that could have caused the outbreak are the food handlers not following the correct procedures.Cooking the food enough and having the correct temperature are some of the procedures that the food handlers could have messed up to cause the outbreak.
The outbreak was caused by a norovirus being spread within the area . A norovirus is any of numerous single-stranded ribose nucleic acid (RNA) viruses, which includes
WNV can result in intricate infection. WNV has spread as a cyclic plague into North America. WNV signifies a mosquito-borne virus which spread in birds. Mosquitoes are generally wandered in the space and usually bite humans and animals. Therefore, WNV can be spread straightforwardly and cause complex infections.
Yes, My crew and I have just discovered the source of this sickness. The main causes of disease spread are the trade ships. On them are
Human norovirus is a contagious viral infection, responsible for more than half the food-borne diseases outbreaks. In addition to contaminated food, vomiting is also thought to cause the spread of norovirus. Also called the ‘winter vomiting bug’, this virus most commonly spreads in hotels, schools, and cruise ships. Though vomiting is known to release particles containing norovirus into the air, how and why this could be transmitted to someone nearby is unknown. To answer
The origin of the disease has been described at the end of the movie where we find out that a bat with a virus known as paramyxovirus that infects a pig. The pigs that are for human consumption were located near a forest that was being cut down. The pig in turn infects human beings of the earth through a chef. The agent which is very infectious is known as MEV-1 and its potential spread is estimated at 6-7 which suggests that the virus is highly transmissible from one person to the next. The virus has been compared to that of a smallpox virus with a mortality rate of up to 30%.
Newcastle Disease Virus tropism varies and can manifest in the respiratory, digestive, or nervous systems with differing severities of virulence . At least four pathogenic types are defined: lentogenic, asymptomatic enteric, mesogenic, and velogenic which includes two tropisms: neurotropic and viscerotropic . Lentogenic and asymptomatic enteric are the less virulent type of the disease, showing mild or no symptoms. Birds with lentogenic type infections may have respiratory symptoms such as coughing, and sneezing whereas the asymptomatic enteric strain the virus replicates in the gut and the bird may show no symptoms . According to the USDA, this less virulent form of NDV is endemic in US poultry1. If mesogenic, the virus can cause respiratory symptoms and birds may show nervous symptoms such as tremors, twisting their necks, paresis, or complete paralysis of wings and / or legs, or other neurological abnormalities6 8. [4] [7] Egg production may also decrease or have abnormal shape, texture or color6. The
A number of studies have supported the theory that the virus had originally occurred in animals previous to human infections.5 The MERs-CoV virus is a type of coronavirus that has been known for infecting both birds and many species of mammals. These types of infections are commonly referred to as zoonotic diseases because the pathogens are able to be transferred from animals to humans. Zoonosis can happen with or without a vector in order to spread the infection. Although the exact origin of the MERs-CoV infections is unknown, there has been convincing research performed that has found related types of coronaviruses in bats and camels. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the coronavirus is found in multiple species and can cause respiratory illness and gastrointestinal upset.