TWiV 847: On Dasher, on Dancer, on Corona and Lassa
This Week in Virology
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Influenza Viruses
There are many ways to be a virus. You can be like herpy's virus, where you infect your host once and you just never leave. Or you can be an acute infection, and then you have to deal with the immune systemon a short term basis. Yet i think of it kind of like different viral strategies for what works. And in the case of poleovirus, well, by that time, more hosts have been born, and so you infect the susceptible hosts that were just born. Measles is at the brink of extinction now, cause we have an effective vaccine. But before we had an active faccine, its solution was to be so ridiculously contagious that
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