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Economic importance of all types of virus?

Viruses have positive and negative economic importance. On the negative side, viruses cause loss of productivity as well as loss of plants and animals. On the positive side, viruses have been engineered to destroy pests which attack crops. Viruses which attack bacteria have also been used to protect plants and animals from disease.


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Can computer viruses delete work?

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Vaccines are important tools that help prevent the spread of infectious diseases. A vaccine is a substance introduced into the body to stimulate the production of chemicals that destroy specific viruses or bacteria. A vaccine may be made from dead or altered viruses or bacteria. Because they are dead or altered, the viruses or bacteria in the vaccine do not cause disease. Instead, they activate the body's natural defenses. In effect, the vaccine puts the body "on alert." If that virus or bacterium ever invades the body, it is destroyed before it can cause disease. You may have been vaccinated against diseases such as polio, measles, tetanus, and chickenpox.


What is a disease that is controlled by gentic engerneering?

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Is A foodborne illness a disease that is transmitted to people by food?

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What are the incomplete viruses called that have been linked to certain diseases such as scrapie and mad cow?

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Why won't the antibodies for measles work against chickenpox?

Antibodies for measles don't work against chickenpox virus because antibody for measles virus can not bind to chickenpox virus. Antibody for a specific antigen should have a shape and structure that is able to fit into this virus. Then it will be able to inhibit the activity of this virus. When a measles vaccine is inserted inside human body, or when someone has measles, the T type lymphocytes (White Blood Cells) detect the type of viruses and then B type lymphocytes produce the antibodies against this specific type of virus. If viruses of the vaccine are alive they will reproduce themselves inside the human body and the number of antibodies against them also increases. Antibodies bind to these viruses and destroy them. Now the virus (of specific disease which needs prevention) which was in the vaccine have been destroyed but the antibodies against this disease viruses are still there and they prevent from the actual disease causing viruses. Antibodies are specific: An infection with the measles virus means that the person makes antibodies only against measles. It doesn't make any antibodies against chickenpox too.


Why do we say that if a person suffers from chickenpox once he is not likely to be by the same disease in future?

Once you have been exposed to that virus, your body has memory cells that will respond very quickly. Actually, you can be attacked again but you will not get the disease again because these memory cells will destroy the virus.