Titlebook: Viruses and Man: A History of Interactions; Milton W. Taylor Book 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014 Bacteriophage th

Anthropoid

Interferons, agent and in anti-cancer therapy. There are many different types of interferons, now known as interferons “alpha,” “beta,” “gamma” and “l(fā)ambda,” with different cellular receptors and modes of action, and there are possibly 24 different types of alpha interferon. Independently and simultaneously, a

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Landlocked

Smallpox,. The virus mutated to greater pathogenicity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with epidemics in most urban centers of the world. It was a disease that was endemic in European and Asian populations, but extremely virulent among the non-immune native populations of the New World. Ninety per

Agronomy

Yellow Fever, disease—with 50?% mortality—destroyed the economies of many Southern American cities. Yellow fever inhibited the attempts of the French to establish an empire in the Western Hemisphere, using Haiti as a base. This resulted in the sale of the Louisiana Territories to the U.S., resulting in doubling

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nerve-sparing

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Granular

cortex

HIV and AIDS, immune system, destroying CD4 T-cells. The disease spread rapidly, initially among “gay” men, but later into the heterosexual community. At the same time, a “novel” cancer, Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS), appeared in infected individuals; it was later found to be associated with a herpes virus. By 1982 it w

muscle-fibers

Phage Therapy and the Future, contamination in the Ganges River was due to the presence of anti-bacterial substance. The idea of using phage to counteract bacterial infections was promoted by Felix d’Herelle. In the 1930s there were large, successful clinical trials in the U.S. using phage to counteract carbuncles and other inf