Virology Lectures 2024 #22: Emerging Viruses

An emerging virus is a newly discovered virus or viral disease, or a different disease caused by a known virus. In this lecture we discuss the anthropogenic factors that drive virus emergence, the four types of virus-host interactions, and descriptions of specific emerging virus infections including those caused by poliovirus, Nipah and Hendra viruses, Junin virus, Ebolavirus, and the coronaviruses SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV-2.

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[troruaz]

This is such a great video Vincent. I've been a giant fan of MicrobeTV and the people that are involved since discovering you folks in '20. I encourage everybody else who got thrust into this world of virology in that time start to build a basic level of knowledge in the subject with the amazing body of work that Vincent and folks have put together.

[tomsteinberg]

Wording of the Measles part seems confusing -- cattle domestication timing should be corrected. Cattle have been domesticated for millennia. Measles emergence in ~ 1000 CE is reasonable on the basis of historical description. (recent estimates vary, with a mean of ~ 530 BCE; SCIENCE, 2020, V 368, pp 1376-70)

[Simon-fgiz]

I can't get over the fact that "Muerto Canyon" residents objected to giving the name to the virus... the name is actually perfect, and it's way too late to avoid the association with negative things when you have "dead" in the name of your town.

[graysonric]

Can putting raw milk on cereal cause a cereal infection?

[nicevideomancanada]

Question from Calgary, Alberta, Canada: If humans stopped raising animals to eat and we all went vegetarian or ate Synthetic Food would this help stop the Plagues?