CH 105 - Chemistry and Society

Influenza and HIV

03/22/2005

Readings

• Caught Off Guard; Scientific American. June 2003; by Christine Soares;

• Vacccine Development

  • History of vaccine development

  • Vaccines: Successes

• Deaths in all wars

• FluPrep

• PBS:Influenza 1918 -The American Experience

• Pig mixer

• Influenza viruses: orthomyxoviruses

• Influenza viruses: orthomyxoviruses 2

• Pandemics: Antigenic Shift; Epidemics:Antigenic Drift

• Animation: antigenic shift influenza viruses

• Genetic Variation in RNA Viruses

• Emerging Infections:  How Epidemics Arise

• Animation: Viral subunit reassortment

• Virus infections and seasons of the year

• Annenberg animations  -Influenza infections

  • antigenic shift

  • influenza infection

• segmented RNA viruses -

• influenza viral genome

• Influenza Viral Resources: NCBI

• Influenza A genome

• viral replication

• encoded proteins

• antiviral therapy

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