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Jonas Salk showed that a killed virus vaccine would work and would be damned effective in fighting disease. This was something that virologists of the day pooh-poohed. And Salk proved them wrong. David Oshinsky

Work Day Fighting Virus Would Would-Be Something Wrong Proved Effective Disease Them Vaccine

The more cases of Ebola infection we have, the more chances there are for the virus to mutate in a particular way that adapts it well to living in humans, replicating in humans, and perhaps transmitting from human to human. David Quammen

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Viruses have to live somewhere. They can only replicate in living creatures. So, when the Ebola virus disappears between outbreaks, it has to be living in some reservoir host, presumably some species of animal. David Quammen

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A vaccine introduces a small amount or a tempered version of the virus into the body - just enough to that the body is able to recognize it and deal with it when it encounters it again in the future. Eula Biss

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It is important to note that there exist vast gender differences in the global role of papillomaviruses in human cancers. This is mainly due to the role of this virus family in the induction of cancer of the cervix. Harald zur Hausen

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man. Hubert H. Humphrey

Freedom Man Virus Contagious Most Known

In San Francisco, I found Warren Levinson, who had set up a program to study Rous Sarcoma Virus, an archetype for what we now call retroviruses. At the time, the replication of retroviruses was one of the great puzzles of animal virology. Levinson, Levintow and I joined forces in the hope of solving that puzzle. J. Michael Bishop

There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out. Jeffrey Kluger

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I'm not interested in replicating 'Hedwig' like a virus. John Cameron Mitchell

Virus Like Not Interested Interested

I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like. Jonas Salk

Myself Cancer Sense Virus Would Would-Be Tried Like Cell

The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it. Kary Mullis

Year Damn Spend Virus Has-Been Mystery Been Billion

McDermott and two colleagues - James H. Fowler of the University of California, San Diego, and Nicholas A. Christakis of Harvard University - published a paper titled 'Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Unless Everyone Else is Doing it Too.' Their study shows that divorce can spread like a virus among friends, siblings and co-workers. Katie Hafner

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When a person survives Ebola, when they recover, they're not a carrier of the virus. Kent Brantly

Virus Carrier Recover Survives Person

When a person who is very ill decides to treat it like a slight virus, you play that game. If you make a big scene, I think it is yourself you are doing it for, not the person who's ill. Lauren Bacall

You Game Yourself Treat Big Think Virus Slight Scene Like Make Doing Very Person Decide Ill Who Play

What perhaps should receive more attention is the effect of the treatment on the virus. Luc Montagnier

Virus More Attention Perhaps Effect Should Receive Treatment

The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation. Margaret Chan

Great Nature Changes Virus Mutation About Potential Influenza Unique

I wanted to build something that was a system - that was mechanical and would propagate itself like a virus. I needed a way for it spread from person to person, and the best way to do that was trying to get someone to get their friends to sign up. Michael Birch

There are people who are just suicidal, regardless. They are built to self-destruct. It seems, in my family, like a virus that's resistant to any kind of help or care or medication. Miriam Toews

Family People Care Virus Kind Seems Like Built Any Just Regardless Help Who Medication Resistant Suicidal

Nation states that are used to imposing capital controls will face a quandary: ban cryptocurrencies and live in the technology dustbin; enable them, and this virus - this religion, this protocol - will enable the free flow of money and language, along with packets, around the globe. Naval Ravikant

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All these things that we've contemplated, whether it's space travel or solutions to diseases that plague us, Ebola virus, all of these things would be a lot more tractable if the machines are trying to solve these problems. Oren Etzioni

Travel Space Problems Virus Machines Would Would-Be Solutions Solve More Contemplated Lot Trying Diseases Space Travel Whether Plague Us Things

See, Ebola, like all threats to humanity, it's fueled by mistrust and distraction and division. When we build barriers amongst ourselves, and we fight amongst ourselves, the virus thrives. But unlike all threats to humanity, Ebola is one where we're actually all the same. We're all in this fight together. Pardis Sabeti

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