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Virology prediction for 2009: Virus evolution will continue

3 Comments / Information / By Vincent Racaniello

At the end of each year, many websites, blogs, and podcasts (to name a few) summarize the past year’s events. We did the same at TWiV, naming our picks for the top 10 virology stories of 2008. Then, as the new year begins, many of the same sites predict what will happen in 2009. Such …

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Emerging viruses?

1 Comment / Information / By Vincent Racaniello

The term emerging virus was coined by scientists in the 1990s to describe the agent of a new or previously unrecognized infection. The term implies that emerging viruses are new; however this assumption is incorrect. New virus infections have been emerging for thousands of years, at least since the rise of agriculture 11,000 years ago. …

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