Raven Press, New York. Course Schedule Organizational meeting. Room 551 McDonnell Science Building. Huang Recommended and assigned reading 2001-2002 September 11, September 13 HIV, Hantavirus, Ebola, influenza, dengue, Nipah, West Nile, VEE viruses. Viral health threats do not respect national boundaries.
Pathogenic viruses can emerge anytime and anywhere in the world.
With the help of modern transportation, they may be rapidly spread by infected humans and animals. We cannot escape the need for continued vigilant surveillance, and research on prevention and therapy. Huang Recommended and assigned reading 2001-2002 September 18, September 20 Mutation, reassortment and recombination. Viruses, especially RNA and retroviruses, are astonishingly adaptable, because of their extremely high mutation rates. For example, simple calculations show that a sample of a million virus genomes contains within it all possible single-base mutants.