Emerging Viruses 4° Personally I think that also the trans-species jump of more viral strains of the same family (Emerging Viruses), at a different pathogenicity and virulence, is part of a definite plan or intelligence of Virus–Nature.
Emerging Viruses 3° Among the emerging viruses the most suitable example to our case is the Psittacosis one, an infective disease caused by viruses which are present in parrots. Till 1929 the disease was very rare, then in 1929-30 there was a sudden explosion of cases, contemporaneously, both in Europe and in North America. It was scientifically proved that the epidemic was connected to the import of parrots from South America to Europe and to North America where many new cases[1] occurred.
Emerging Viruses 2° A new virus among the emerging ones is certainly the one that in Japan and precisely at Chitose, 30 kilometres far from Sapporo, affected 2,000 people with symtoms which were very much alike the ones of cholera and diphtheria. The announcement was made by the sanitary authorities of the northern island of Okkaido.
Emerging Viruses If we compare the epidemic of genital condylomatosis with the AIDS one we can find some substantial differences. The HPV epidemic is caused by a virus that has been known for many years and isn’t mortal; the AIDS one is caused by a virus which was previously unknown and the subjects who are affected very often die. HPV is much more stable and may be transferred more easily than HIV.
Human Papillomavirus 4° Once again the study of what had happened in the past offered me, if not some solutions, at least some work hypotheses. The reference from the Human Papillomavirus to the spirochaeta of framboesia, the skin disease similar to leprosy, was immediate. Then it happened that the skin to skin contact favouring the spreading of framboesia, a cutaneous disease, was interrupted by the change in the habits.
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