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Sunday, May 10, 2009

SPECIAL REPORT:VIRUSES: FRIEND OR FOE

Science finds viruses also cure

Co-existing with the enemy:  

 
HUMAN Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Hepatitis C virus (HCV), influenza viruses, herpes virus, Ebola virus, West Nile virus, SARS-associated coronavirus, Avian influenza virus—now the swine flu virus.

Viruses (Latin for “poisonous fluid”) are subcellular organisms, smaller than human cells and bacteria measured in nanometers.

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Lessons from SARS may ease impact of swine flu

LONG before the global financial melt down, there was SARS.

In 2003, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) buckled economies, sent stock markets into a slide and crippled international trade and travel.

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Local schools may consider closing classes

AS hundreds of schools closed across the United States because of the swine flu, Philippine school authorities may well consider the possibility in a worst-case scenario.

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The face of things to come

USED correctly, facemasks and respirators may help reduce the risk of getting influenza.

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The flu alphabet

A, B and C are the three types of seasonal influenza.

Type A influenza viruses are further typed into subtypes according to different kinds and combinations of virus surface proteins. 

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