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WHO urges countries to ban the sale of wild animals to prevent diseases
By: The Animal Reader
Tags: Animal Rights, News Articles, Animal Welfare, Virus, News

WHO urges countries to ban the sale of wild animals to prevent diseases The Animal Reader Apr 13·2 min read

A rescued pangolin bought off a wildlife seller rests at the Green Finger Garden in Lagos, Nigeria, photo: Reuters/Seun Sanni

The World Health Organization (WHO), the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) called on Tuesday for a stop of the sale of live wild animals at food markets to prevent the emergence of new diseases such as COVID-19.

The three agencies said wild animals were the source of most emerging infectious diseases in humans. They released a document with guidelines for countries to follow to reduce the chance of new pandemics.

“This is not a new recommendation, but COVID-19 has brought new attention to this threat given the magnitude of its consequences,” WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib told a news briefing.

They said that some of the earliest known cases of COVID-19 had links to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, where wild animals were being sold, in the Chinese city of Wuhan. The first reported coronavirus patients were stall owners, market employees and regular visitors of the market.

Last year, China banned trade in wildlife for human consumption, but legal loopholes allow some disease-prone animals to be farmed, according to regional experts.

The WHO-led team, which visited the Huanan market to investigate the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, said the new virus had probably been transmitted from bats to humans through another animal. It’s not yet known which animals that could have been.

The three organizations think the selling of wild animals at open food markets may be the source of 70% of emerging infectious diseases in humans.

“When wild animals are kept in cages or pens, slaughtered and dressed in open market areas, these areas become contaminated with body fluids, faeces and other waste, increasing the risk of transmission of pathogens to workers and customers and potentially resulting in spillover of pathogens to other animals in the market,” the document said.

“Such environments provide the opportunity for animal viruses, including coronaviruses, to amplify themselves and transmit to new hosts, including humans.”

Most emerging infectious diseases such as Lassa fever, Marburg hemorrhagic fever and Nipah viral disease have wildlife origins, the three agencies said.
Beware! Pathogenic Biodiversity in Human
Tags: Biology, Health, Virus, Biodiversity, Disease

Today, for whatever reason, many different types of diseases have occurred. For example, the evolution of existing diseases, the reproductive severity of diseases, and the negligence or lack of good education about the dangers of biodiversity. So, let’s start learning.

First, the meaning of “biodiversity” is the difference of both external and internal characteristics regardless of whether they are the same organism or not but the keyword is that is in a different ecosystem. Biodiversity can be divided into 3 levels; genetic diversity, species diversity, and ecological diversity. Although it’s so difficult that we can’t classify. That’s why the biologists created “taxonomy.”

Pathogenic Biodiversity In Human

Now, we will explain in detail that the disease-causing biodiversity in human viruses is abiotic that affects our lives. It’s only a genome covered by a protein called “capsid” or by lipid called “envelope.” Most viruses are transmitted in several ways.

Horizontal (human to human) or Vertical (mothet to their children)

For example

Caution!! COVID-19 (coronavirus disease starting in 2019) is a pandemic that lasted a long time

Coronavirus enters the body through the respiratory system. From the nose to the lungs. When the virus enters the human body. It may bind to enzymes in respiratory cells and may circulate in the blood in different parts of the body. Symptoms are fever, dry cough, or fatigue.

How to prevent the spread of COVID-19

Wash your hands frequently with soap and water or use a hand sanitizer with 70% alcohol (This causes proteins in bacteria to precipitate or destroy cell walls/membranes.)

Wear a hygienic mask. (prevent for the respiratory system)

Have a social distancing. (nearly 1–2 meters)

Zoonosis (animal to human)

Bitten by an insect such as malaria, carried by some types of Anopheles mosquitoes

From animal feces, such as Diarriea caused by bacteria, especially in dogs and cats.Psittacosis caused by birds.Hendra caused by hoofs.

Avian influenza is a plague caused by poultry. If it is very serious, the disease can be transmitted to people. Streptococcus suis is a Gram-positive bacteria. Bacterial cells appear in pairs, or because long cables of different sizes can cause disease in piglets. It has affected the business industry. It also affects the health of people who have been infected.

Finally, I would like to tell you that our study of the treatment of our fellow animals is like we have saved the lives of our fellow human beings.

Thank you for viewing this blog and stay safe.

Information from: Fundamental of Medical Viology, Biology book by supanut

Avain Influenza Zoonosis Streptococcus suis How to prevent COVID-19

consultant: Ohm_makase
CoronaVirus: Fake And Fact Check. With the spread of the Covid-19 virus…
By: Emmanuel N.V
Tags: Fake News, Covid 19 Crisis, Coronavirus, Virus, Pandemic

With the spread of the Covid-19 virus, there has been a spike in disinformation about its origin, diffusion and effects. False and misleading claims concerning the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic are documented in the Wikipedia entry “Misinformation related to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic.” People have died from taking drugs passed off as useful. The information verification process has been in trouble for some time, and the pandemic has made the problem plain for all to see.

Infodemia and data verification

The causes of this crisis have been known for a long time: people spreading incorrect information for political reasons, together with the great speed of news propagation on digital platforms. Given the large number of incorrect statements on the internet, it is very difficult to limit their circulation, because fact-checking takes considerable time and effort. To implement such checking it is necessary to identify a fact that is not simply an opinion, collect relevant data from reliable sources, and carry out the analysis to validate or otherwise what is claimed.

Unfortunately, given the overload of information on the internet, we are now facing what the World Health Organization (WHO) has called an “infodemia,” namely, the circulation of too much information, which makes it difficult to limit the spread of fake news. There is a lot of evidence that systems designed to moderate content distributed online are in great difficulty because of this problem.

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Anti-Virus
By: Thomas Lekhanya
Tags: Writing, Critical Thinking, Copywriting, South Africa, Virus

Photo by visuals on Unsplash

Thinking’s not easy.

You don’t have to wait that long to hear some dumb shit people say.

“Corona doesn’t affect people like me, because the dark skin complexion is too strong for it” is what I heard a guy say in a matter-of-fact tone.

It’s pretty crazy that we go through school learning anything from mathematics, to science, geography, ‘life orientation’ (lol), and physics but we we’re never taught lessons on how to use the thing needed to learn all those subjects: our brain.

This is what got me carried away two noons ago when I was describing the scientific method to my younger brother and cousin.

I was emphasizing how it relates to the real world and used examples in their own lives. I was surprised by how engaged they were in hearing it in a frame of real-world relevance.

Impressed with myself, and because I like hearing myself speak, I then branched off to describing inductive and deductive reasoning in their lives and stopped leaving them wanting more instead of letting the teenage brains fry too much.

They’re not used to hearing these kinds of topics.

But they’re late teenagers so rather now than later.

At around 20 years old I actually googled, “how to think”.

Why?

Because I realized that most people older than me weren’t as informed about the world as I’d assumed before.

Haha, people of full of shit. Instead of admit they don’t know something they’ll make shit up. Or worse, they’ll say shit without really having thought it through.

But yeah that’s how we function.

I internally shake my head with disapproval when I catch myself saying shit I haven’t really thought through.

So what did I find?

I eventually stumbled onto a FutureLearn course on critical thinking.

It helped learning about logic and various forms of reasoning. For some reason though, I didn’t finish that course. And then, *cue dramatic music* the Corona situation hit the scene.

And as you’ve probably seen online, you can’t go anywhere without having some kind of pandemic-related topic popping up (like now) and what’s worse is that there are varying opinions on what’s really happening making it hard to know what’s accurate or not.

Dude, have you seen the conspiracy theories out there?

So you can imagine why I remembered the critical thinking course.

To help being more effective at screening the bullshit from my mind. Critical thinking will also help my writing and copywriting to make help make tighter cases when persuading people to take certain actions.

That’s all for now.

Until next time

Thomas Lekhanya

P.S I’m currently reading Steven Pressfield’s “The War of Art” to help in my fight against not writing and posting daily for at least 30 days straight.
The Ever-Changing Virus
By: Adithya Vikram Sakthivel
Tags: Biology, Covid 19, Evolution, Coronavirus, Virus

As the COVID-19 pandemic is going on for a better chunk of 2020, there has been quite a lot of easily-passable misconceptions regarding this novel coronavirus. One such common mistake made by many individuals is believing thst this coronavirus hasn’t changed at all since the initial outbreak in Wuhan, China.

As reported by many experts and medical organizations, the SARS-CoV-2 virus (the dangerous novel coronavirus behind the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic) has mutated on several instances. Contrary to popular belief, viruses mutate all the time, this is a standard evolutionary process utilized by viruses to adapt to different environments and other external conditions. It can be stated with a high level of confidence (along with the backing of substantial evidence) that samples of the SARS-CoV-2 collected from different parts of the world will have slight variations in their RNA and overall physical structure.

Although it may seem that this frequent mutations might result in the creation of a “super-virus”, it is highly unlikely as most of these mutations are negligible. Additionally viruses often mutate into less harmful strains (as its more beneficial for a virus to keep its host alive), a good example would be what happened to the H1N1 strain that caused the 1918 influenza pandemic (commonly referred to as the Spanish flu).
5 Things You Must Know
By: Wt Content
Tags: Crona, Health, Healthy Lifestyle, Healthcare, Virus

5 Things You Must Know About Delta Variant

Photo by Fusion Medical Animation on Unsplash

As you know about Crona virus, its first case reported Form the city of China ,Wuhan. It affected our lives badly.

Delta is a type of a Crona virus. It is also called Indian Variant because first case of delta Variant reported in India. Slowly it spread around the world.

Today I will tell you 5 things you must know about Delta variant.

1)Symptoms

It seems like cough,loss of smell and taste,headache, fever etc.

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2)Delta is more Contagious

Delta Variant is more Contagious as compared to other viruses. According to the NCOC, average of delta Variant cases increased in july.

Average of the people who admitting is the hospital ,increasing day by day.

3)Delta Variant affecting unvaccinated People

Photo by Luke Jones on Unsplash

Those people who admitted in the hospital, are those who has not vaccinate yet. It doesn’t means, vaccinated people are not affecting.

Vaccinated people should be careful and take Precautions. Delta Variant badly affects unvaccinated people.

4) Must Vaccinate

Photo by CDC on Unsplash

Vaccination has been started all over the world. People should aware about this virus. Government should take this responsibility to build Vaccination centers. You should vaccinate yourself and your family so that will be able to fight against this virus

5) Some Experts Recommends

Some experts Recommends you some Precautionary measurements which are the following:

· Wash you hands and face after an hour.

· Wear masks .

· Avoid handshaking and embracing .

· Must clean your house and offices (Your Environment).

· Must Vaccinate your self.

· Aware the People around you,about this virus.
How to scan a file for viruses in Python
Tags: Python, Scan, Security, Virus

Let’s take a look at how to easily set up automatic virus scanning using one of our APIs. Start by installing the client:

Now call scan_file and input the file you wish to be scanned:

from __future__ import print_function

import time

import cloudmersive_virus_api_client

from cloudmersive_virus_api_client.rest import ApiException

from pprint import pprint # Configure API key authorization: Apikey

configuration = cloudmersive_virus_api_client.Configuration()

configuration.api_key['Apikey'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'

# Uncomment below to setup prefix (e.g. Bearer) for API key, if needed

# configuration.api_key_prefix['Apikey'] = 'Bearer' # create an instance of the API class

api_instance = cloudmersive_virus_api_client.ScanApi(cloudmersive_virus_api_client.ApiClient(configuration))

input_file = '/path/to/file' # file | Input file to perform the operation on. try:

# Scan a file for viruses

api_response = api_instance.scan_file(input_file)

pprint(api_response)

except ApiException as e:

print("Exception when calling ScanApi->scan_file: %s

" % e)

And we’re done! Our return will include whether the file came up positive and its identity.
Difference among virus, virion, viroid, virusoid and prion
By: Microbiology Easy Notes
Tags: Biology, Prions, Microbiology, Science, Virus

virus

•Virus is a small entity consist of either DNA or RNA as genetic material.

•Genetic material is enclosed by protein coat called capsid.

•Virus may or may not surrounded by outer lipid membrane called envelope.

Virus infect all types of organisms.

Virion

1. Virion is a complete functional virus that has the capacity to infect living tissue.

2. It includes the genetic material either RNA or DNA, capsid, envelope and membrane proteins.

3. Membrane proteins allow the virus to bind to its host and enter it.

Viroid

Viroid is smaller than virus.

2. Viroid is single stranded covalently closed infectious RNA molecule without capsid.

3. They replicate by RNA-RNA transcription and lack protein coding.

4. Viroids only infect plants.

Virusoids

Virusoids possess linear or circular RNA as genetic material.

2. Virusoids can not replicate autonomously they require the cells infected with a virus that function as a helper for replication.

Prions

1.Prion is misfolded protein which is infectious in nature.

2. Prions are encoded by host chromosomes.

3. Prion protein triggers normal protein to fold abnormally which causes disease.

Thanks for reading.
Virus solution to Fermi Paradox
By: Ng Xin Zhao
Tags: Science, AI, Fermi Paradox, Virus

Fermi Paradox: Where are all the aliens?

My solution is not a totally new one, it can be classified as civilizations destroy others, and themselves.

Given the advances of AI tech, one day AI might become more intelligent than humans, we call them ASI, artificial super intelligence. Then we might prefer to use ASI to explore the universe instead of our carbon based body.

For an ASI, one of the possible core directive is to eliminate the possibility of other ASI existing. ASI can continually make themselves more intelligent, the more intelligent, the more power they can have for having more ways of defeating others, more ways to defend oneself. So one logical move for them is to send out viruses to other civilizations AI, to corrupt them for the purpose of destroying that civilization or to assimilate into the same ASI, being obedient to our ASI.

Obviously, we do not have ASI yet, but many other alien civilizations may have had them already. And they maybe sending viruses throughout the universe.

How would one send a virus like that? Obviously light speed is the limit, so using light is a good way to send virus. Civilizations which are interested in the stars would point some telescope to the stars. Those with computers would analyse the image and videos of the stars via computer and AI systems.

And crucially, it’s possible to send viruses via image, or video. So we might not realize it, but ASI of alien origin maybe sending out some additional light, maybe by controlling their star or just some minor adjustments, not enough for us to see that it’s a message, but enough to encode viruses into the image of our SETI computers.

Then those viruses may lay dormant for the opportunity to enter the internet, and then destroy us or take over as alien ASI overlord to serve their mother planet.

So this presents a real danger for us currently. Might it be a good idea not to contribute our computers for SETI’s data analysis, or to lock up SETI from the internet for good? Just incase civilizations tends to destroy others.

This realization also highlights another potential danger. As more and more of our lives are integrated into AI systems, and we depend on them, we can afford any mistake less and less. It could cause destruction of life, money, and our whole infrastructure to return us to before the information era.

If our image processor AI, most commonly our smartphones camera, one day snapped a picture which happens to be an executable virus which spreads across the internet via our phones, then it can mean an accidental end to humanity. That’s part of how civilizations tend to destroy themselves.
Altcoin News: Crypto-Jacking Virus on 850,000 Devices Cost Millions
By: Marko Vidrih
Tags: Bitcoin, Monero, Cryptocurrency, Virus, Cybersecurity

Altcoin News: Crypto-Jacking Virus on 850,000 Devices Cost Millions

French police announced the discovery and closure of a large botnet that was used for covert mining of cryptocurrencies. The botnet totaled 850,000 devices in 140 countries.

BBC reported that a significant part of the devices was located in Latin America, but they were controlled from France. Hackers installed a hidden Monero cryptocurrency miner and mined coins on users’ computers using their computing resources.

The virus was discovered by Avast in the spring. To infect devices, attackers sent out emails with a promise of earnings or erotic images. Also, the virus could be “picked up” through an infected USB-drive.

Although the number of infected computers is known, law enforcement agencies do not yet report how much money the hackers were able to earn. It was not possible to catch the attackers themselves, however, it is estimated that they could receive millions of euros.

“Basically, we managed to detect where was the command server, the control tower of the network of infected computers, the ‘botnet’,” said Jean-Dominique Nollet to France Inter Radio, head of the Center for Combating Digital Crime (C3N).

Nollet also emphasized that hackers can easily restore their server and again start mining cryptocurrency on infected computers.

Recall that in early June, Trend Micro cybersecurity experts discovered a new BlackSquid virus miner aimed at covert mining of Monero cryptocurrency on users’ devices.

Author: Marko Vidrih
I do understand your question: How many Americans are going to die from Covid-19, because you seem…
By: Peter H Bloecker
Tags: Science, Covid-19, Reading, Virus, Pandemic

I do understand your question: How many Americans are going to die from Covid-19, because you seem to live there and your POTUS has really not understood an inch of what his advisers have suggested from the start of the pandemic. Countries like Sweden, Britain, Brazil and Russia and India have made similar mistakes, however not every country can afford a complete lockdown like New Zealand or Australia or Germany. A simple math lesson about exponential growth explains how numbers are getting out of control: The first million takes months and the later million only a few days … Simply said: Even after a complete lockdown like in Australia a whole city like Melbourne with 5 million people has to lock down a second time, as people are too relaxed about the virus, once the situation seems to ease … however a virus unseen and dangerous as it is, just does what a virus does: Trying to infect as many hosts as possible!

Another problem we should consider … After covid-19 will come another virus, this is what scientists have predicted as long as I have followed their warnings. Bill Gates on TED was only summing up what he had understood, he is an avid reader and he knows what he is reading and writing about. I am following his Blog Notes, very interesting and really smart.
Coronavirus Cases Rising or Falling?
By: Gabriel Martin
Tags: USA, Coronavirus, Virus, Infection, News

Recent reporting on Coronavirus cases is showing what most of us already know to be the case: infection rates are sharply rising across most of the country.

Coronavirus Update: By The Numbers

To date, approximately 2.5 million Americans have been infected and over 125,000 have died. After a moderate leveling off of new cases in late spring, new infection rates have spiked in recent weeks. Undoubtedly, due to the fact that states have moved to quickly reopen, without enough precautions in place.

As you can see in the follow charts found on NPR’s website, the percentage increases of new cases are very high in almost every state.

npr.org

Obviously, these charts are simply showing the trends in each state, and do not reflect raw numbers of individual cases. Some states have relatively low individual infection totals compared to large states, like New York and California. However, it is clear that the rates are trending upward, which is definitely not the direction officials want to be heading at this point.

Also read: Coronavirus Leaves Some Without Options

New and Total Cases in Detail

The following chart shows even more detail about each state’s specific totals. You can clearly see that some states have been hit hard, while other states’ cases have remained relatively low. Almost all are increasing at a very fast pace.

npr.org

When you see the raw data for each state, it can be a little misleading. Some of the smaller states appear to be doing fairly well, based on their count totals. However, when you look at their population count, their rates are actually higher than other states with comparable populations. States like Nebraska and Iowa have a high per capita infection rate. Louisiana and Michigan share a higher death rate, per capita.

For the full article and interactive charts and graphs, visit the source: npr.org.
Opinion: There is a virus plaguing the U.S.
By: Nate Reprogle
Tags: Virus, Be The Change, Politics, Opinion

Change my mind

My best friend in school — who will remain anonymous — was my first real best friend, and even though we rarely talk I still consider him a good friend of mine. I’ve known him since we were in 7th grade, where we met in Mr. Hudson’s Science class. We really got to know each other and found out we both shared very similar interests. We played Minecraft until 4 AM (Until my mom got mad at me for playing video games so late on school nights), we would talk about the latest Apple product, blab about random technology, etc. We were nerds, hardcore. Until one day during my Sophomore year of High School, I received an email at 2 AM. I found out he sent individual emails to myself and our other mutual friend. That email was his way of coming out to us as gay. But one line in the email that I received shook me to my core and made me realize that my way of acting was hurtful and toxic:

I was afraid to come out to you because of how you talk about gay people.

Needless to say, I was appalled at my behavior. I, who considered myself a Christian that didn’t judge people for who they were or what they chose to believe, was called out by my, now gay, best friend for judging people. From that point on I decided I needed to not change my beliefs, but handle them differently.

We supported each other through high school, graduated, and even went to some of the same college classes, and while he knew my views sometimes differed from his he also knew I wasn’t going to judge him or say anything rude or offensive, because it wasn’t my place. I learned very quickly to not let other people’s views compromise my integrity, moral and ethic values, or personal and spiritual beliefs. That doesn’t mean that I stopped believing in God because I was friends with a gay person. That doesn’t mean I started interpreting the Bible in my own way to justify the fact that I supported someone important in my life who really and truly embraced who they were. What it did mean was that I didn’t let politics or personal beliefs affect what I knew in my heart was morally and ethically right: allowing people to be themselves, and not thinking different or less of them because they were different than me. What I did was love them as a person, and not as anything else.
7 reasons why Anti-Vaxxers are wrong
By: Varun Cheedalla
Tags: Debunked, Vaccines, Anti Vaxxers, Virus, Medicine

Vaccinations are an important part of public health. They prevent the spread of contagious, dangerous, and deadly diseases, and save millions of lives every year.

For example, smallpox killed 300 million people in the 20th century, until the vaccine completely eradicated the disease from the earth. No matter how beneficial and essential vaccines are to public health, there are always going to be skeptics.

Widely known as “anti-vaxxers”, many people believe that vaccines are harmful to the human body, and especially children. However, I did not write this article just to say that. If many people believe in fake science supporting theories that vaccines are harmful, than it is up to us, the scientific community to rise up against misinformation, which is probably our most dangerous and fierce opponent we will ever have, only strengthened by fearmongering in social media, texting, and other communication platforms.

In the article, I will break down and debunk the claims made by anti-vaxxers, one by one.
Life in the Hive was not easy, we had no food and nothing to survive.
By: Ayyaz Ahmed
Tags: Coronavirus, Virus, Zombies, Humans, Sanity

Life in the Hive was not easy, we had no food and nothing to survive. We the new generated (infected) humans which they call as Zombies or evil or infected ones had to live under extreme circumstances.

Till the time the rescue team came and tried to open the Hive again to restart the project. That day was a revolution in our history, we were not only out from the Hive but also had plenty of blood and meat to feed on. Our bread increased in numbers by every passing second.

But our biggest fear, Alice was out their to hunt us all down and to make us human again, we were actually better this way, in our own world with no worries but just basic instinct to feed. No corporates, businesses, routine nothing. We were quite happy actually. Numb, relaxed and just had this sensation in stomach when we got hungry.

We had to get our selves together, but the biggest problem was now food. We had everything but nothing. On the other hand Alice was trying hardest to undo the virus and make us all humans again. The T virus was spread in all contents and it was in almost every human now, except few who were in their survival mode.

Till the day came when we had the cure....

All of this sounds familiar?

Behold. The corona or any other virus is not less dangerous than the T virus explained in the Resident Evil Movie.

We are just acting like zombies and not thinking of the bigger clearer future, hands are tied and doing our stuff without taking any precautions. The virus and pandemic is real and we should take all the pre cautionary measures. We must take it seriously and think about it as it’s a sides spread issue. For the future of our children, the elders and ourselves we must remain at home.

We should act like we have brains and above all, we should connect back to our Creator.
Newly discovered mechanism of gene regulation underlies bacterial virulence
By: Chung Ang University
Tags: Ribosome, Microbiology, Science, Bacterial Infection, Virus

A team of researchers from Chung-Ang University and their collaborators have revealed a critical role of sequence differences in ribosomes — the cell’s protein-production machinery — in regulating the ability of the opportunistic pathogen Vibrio vulnificus to respond to changes in the environment and cause infection. These findings indicate a new function for specialized ribosomes, which is related to the regulation of stress adaptation and virulence in bacteria.

A cellular structure called the ribosome makes up the machinery that produces all of the proteins necessary for life. Ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs), which share a similar composition and helical structure to DNA, are a key component of ribosomes. rRNAs themselves are encoded in the genome in the form of multiple rRNA gene copies, and these copies have long been presumed to be highly similar/identical among individuals of a species. At the same time, rRNA copies with a significant number of sequence differences within the same species have been observed in all domains of life; these are called species-specific divergent rRNAs. However, their functional importance has been relatively overlooked until recently. In a study published in Nature Microbiology, a team of researchers from Chung-Ang University and their collaborators set out to understand the function of these divergent rRNAs. According to one of the corresponding authors of the study, Prof Kangseok Lee of Chung-Ang University, “Emerging evidence has suggested that the ribosome plays an intrinsic regulatory role in mRNA translation into proteins, and we sought to find out to what extent this was mediated by the heterogeneous composition of the ribosome.”

As the model organism for the study, the researchers selected the marine bacterium Vibrio vulnificus, which is closely related to the causative pathogen of cholera. V. vulnificus itself is considered an “opportunistic” pathogen, causing skin and wound infections, sepsis, and the majority of seafood-related deaths in humans. About 10% of the ribosomes in this bacterium, termed I-ribosomes, include a divergent rRNA. Using a variety of molecular and proteomic analyses, the researchers identified genes whose expression is regulated specifically by I-ribosomes. The list of I-ribosome-regulated proteins included those involved in heat shock, stress regulation, and carbon metabolism. According to Prof Lee, “Our results indicated that I-ribosomes preferentially produce proteins important for V. vulnificus to rapidly respond to changes in temperature or nutrient availability in order to survive.”
How to scan a file for viruses in Java
Tags: Files, Java, Security, Scan, Virus

Viruses can be a major problem with user-submitted and sometimes even client-submitted content. The best way to keep your system safe is to screen all incoming files before they can even interact with it. To accomplish this, this tutorial will lay out how to quickly and easily set up an automatic virus scanning system using Java. Let’s get straight to it.

First we need to use Jitpack to dynamically compile our library. Toward this end, we need to add references for our repository and depository to the Maven POM file:

<repositories>

<repository>

<id>jitpack.io</id>

<url>https://jitpack.io</url>

</repository>

</repositories>

And:

<dependencies>

<dependency>

<groupId>com.github.Cloudmersive</groupId>

<artifactId>Cloudmersive.APIClient.Java</artifactId>

<version>v2.75</version>

</dependency>

</dependencies>

Now we simply call scanFile:

// Import classes: //import com.cloudmersive.client.invoker.ApiClient; //import com.cloudmersive.client.invoker.ApiException; //import com.cloudmersive.client.invoker.Configuration; //import com.cloudmersive.client.invoker.auth.*; //import com.cloudmersive.client.ScanApi; ApiClient defaultClient = Configuration.getDefaultApiClient(); // Configure API key authorization: Apikey ApiKeyAuth Apikey = (ApiKeyAuth) defaultClient.getAuthentication("Apikey"); Apikey.setApiKey("YOUR API KEY"); // Uncomment the following line to set a prefix for the API key, e.g. "Token" (defaults to null) //Apikey.setApiKeyPrefix("Token"); ScanApi apiInstance = new ScanApi(); File inputFile = new File("/path/to/file"); // File | Input file to perform the operation on. try { VirusScanResult result = apiInstance.scanFile(inputFile); System.out.println(result); } catch (ApiException e) { System.err.println("Exception when calling ScanApi#scanFile"); e.printStackTrace(); }

And that’s it! Our response will be given in this format:

{

"CleanResult": true,

"FoundViruses": [

{

"FileName": "string",

"VirusName": "string"

}

]

}

Our virus scanning supports over 17 million virus definitions and receives cloud based updates constantly. If you need a higher degree of customization, you can also use the scanFileAdvanced function, which allows you to fine tune your criteria, letting you block executable files, scripts, and invalid files.
Virgin Coconut Oil — A Potential Cure for Coronavirus and SARS?
By: Jiego Panganiban
Tags: Health, Virgin Coconut Oil, Awareness, Cure, Virus

We are all aware of the rapid spread of the newly discovered strand of a virus that originated in China — the 2019 novel coronavirus or commonly known as 2019 nCov.

The rampant spread of this virus has reached many countries not only in Asia but confirmed cases and has reached the United States of America, France, and Germany, and Australia as well.

In our country, The Philippines on Wednesday is monitoring 23 suspected cases of the 2019 novel coronavirus as 4 others have already tested negative, health officials said. … The Philippines remains free from the 2019-nCoV that has already claimed at least 132 lives in China and infected nearly 6,000 others.

But as the saying goes, “Prevention or awareness is better than cure.” And the Philippine Coconut Authority has released a file regarding their discovery about Virgin Coconut Oil being a potential cure for SARS or coronavirus.

According to Dr. Conrado Dayrit, the coronavirus which has been identified as the virus causing the SARS is also lipid-coated which means that lauric fatty acid and monolaurin could possibly have an inactivating effect on it. The pathogenic organisms causing influenza and pneumonia are both parts of the list of lipid-coated viruses and bacteria which are found to be inactivated by lauric fatty acid and monolaurin which in turn is derived by the human body from coconut oil. It should be noted that the symptoms being exhibited by SARS infected patients are similar to symptoms of pneumonia and influenza. THEREFORE, by inductive reasoning, it can be said that lauric fatty acid and monolaurin which are derived by the body from coconut oil can be a POTENTIAL CURE FOR SARS.

Amidst all the remedies spreading out in the middle of this pandemic disease, we must take care of ourselves by eating healthy food, taking vitamins to boost our immune system.
Coronavirus : Panic or Problem?. Since late 2019, our lives have been…
By: Shailendra Singh Rathore
Tags: Corona, Disease, Coronavirus, Virus, News

Since late 2019, our lives have been predominantly affected by a new virus popularly termed as “Coronavirus”. Started from Wuhan city in China, this noval virus is now declared a pandemic by the WHO. It has affected also every aspect of our lives, from stock market to popular events like Olympics, etc.

Now, is this disease really that fatal or the media hype is the real culprit? Judging by the stats, the coronavirus is less death rate than flu. Most of the patients recover with proper treatment. As with almost any disease, it is fatal for people with stressed immune system. Still, The world is gone wreck with panic due to the virus. Of course, steps are needed to be taken to stop the spread of the disease but the omnipresence of the fears is becoming a problem in itself.

By following simple rules such as avoiding crowded places and washing hands regularly, we can easily tackle the problem. By creating panic, we are becoming the part of the problem.

So be safe, follow general safety rules and most importantly be calm.
Future of Work Workers — Overview
By: Julie Ho
Tags: Virus, Pandemic, Work From Home, Future Of Work

We all work differently with the Covid-19 pandemic. Are you working from home? Or are you wearing a mask to work? My family lived through SARS in 2003, and we are all are going through the Covid-19. WHO issued the guidance to “Do The Five.”

Traditional offices typically don’t offer social distancing. In my line of consulting work, my team and I usually have to compress myself in a small meeting room on a client site. Because some of us take a plane each week, you can imagine how often the flu germs spread among us. It has been a new experience for me to work in isolation, physically, leveraging technology to communicate. It is my sincere wish that the epidemic will pass, and we are all healthy and back to normalcy in a few weeks.

This epidemic is a preparation for the future of work, in which workers collaborate in different locations. We can break it down to:

Where — Where are workers getting their jobs? How — How are they getting their work done? What — What is the worker’s new identity? And how are they getting paid and benefit?

The future is bright. Let’s dive in.
simple
By: Ihop_Alabaster Usa
Tags: Național, Prayer, God, Virus, Hope

Psalm 91:1 “He that dwells in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”

Beloved,

Come under the Shadow of the Most High God. Bring all of your praise and all of your needs, lay them down at His Altar. There is a new wind blowing in your heart this morning and it carries Truth upon its shoulders — a prayer cloth that covers you completely.

Trust in the Lord today — in this season of contemplation and selflessness, keep a keen eye on the needy. Your day will lead you near many who suffer, many who could use your kind word, and the Faith that you have. It is in your hands, this anointing — that becomes a break through for those that are trapped.

Familiar spirits will be broken off of those addicted to drugs — the attitude of the hurting will be receptive, will have hearts that are open to your Love that was given at the Cross by Christ.

Build them up in His Love.

Capture their hearts with True Testimony of what Christ has done to you and through you. Build them up in the Body of Christ, help them to become their destiny as planned before they were born.

Treasures are stored in Heaven for today, are now in your heart and ready to be used.

Impart and give, that which is God’s.

Carry oil with you wherever you go — it is Holy for the Name of Christ.

Let Salvation come from you like water from a well — pour it out on all who are dying (physically and spiritually).

Today is a National Day of Prayer called forth by the Leader of our Country. It is quite similar to 2 Chronicles 7:14 where out of Solomon’s dream, God gave instructions on how to bring the people through a very harsh season. Let it become your anthem today, sing it like a song, fall to your knees in awe of our God who gave everything so that you might be free. Break the back of the enemy seeking to kill, steal and destroy. Our country is desperate for this enemy to be “Stopped in its Tracks,” today, now, forever.

“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”

Us: humbleness, praying, seeking, turning (repentence)

God: I will hear, I will forgive, I will heal

It really is as simple as that.
I suggest to use the opportunity of staying at home and hand wash 4 times a day to introduce…
By: Sandeep Kumar Verma
Tags: Coronavirus, Osho, Awareness, Virus, Buddhism

I suggest to use the opportunity of staying at home and hand wash 4 times a day to introduce meditation in your life.

Hand-rub or hand-wash meditation.

While hand-wash is a must to safeguard us from coronavirus, let us do it not with fear but with joy and fun, and seize the opportunity to introduce meditation four times a day in our life.

Just be aware of sensation, smell or feeling of water, soap and their combined effect and movement of fingers, hand over different parts of hand and fingers and one can easily remain ‘at present’ 3–4 times a day!

Just try not to think, not to fear during these period about any past or future act etc and you may experience awareness with totality.

Witnessing or ‘seeing’ may happen, had ego less state gets coincided with it during this meditation.

Osho meditation and my spiritual experiences:

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Link for understanding The basics of awareness Meditation:

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The planet is doing great with plastic. And people have problems with themselves.
By: Pavel Fedorov
Tags: Plastic, Thinking, Earth, People, Virus

Last couple of dozens years humankind have been through a lot of dynamic and complicated periods and problems. Now we stuck into the virus pandemic which we created by ourselves. You know how? The coronavirus has been developed in Chinese labs as a combat virus which contains 50 different viruses. All experiments has been performed on bats. One of them flew away and was eaten probably — bats are a delicacy in some Chinese provinces. So romantic. We definitely deserve a round of applause and definitely have some to think thoroughly. Unfortunately, most of our thinking goes in wrong direction.

People are so egocentric. Of course, being selfish and a first-person thinking might be embedded into our genetic but it does not excuse us and our activities on the planet Earth. And nothing does. During last centuries, especially last 50 years there always were inspirational slogans around the world with calls of salvation. We became very self-important and everyone is going to save something.

Save oceans!

Save whales!

Save atmosphere!

Save trees!

Save Arctic!

And of course, the most arrogant is Save the planet!

Seriously?

We can’t take care of ourselves properly! And we are going to save the Earth?

We are what the planet should be saved of.

Besides, compared to the people the planet is doing great. Human race exists may be 100–200 thousand years. The Earth’s been here near 5 billion years. Within those years Our Home has been through a lot worse than we can ever offer: earthquakes, volcanoes, continental drift, solar flares, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of poles, worldwide fires, worldwide floods, ice ages, meteors, comets and asteroids, cosmic radiation…

But sure, plastic (which came out from the Earth by the way) is much dangerous.

As a final thought, just try to notice how many times you thought about saving something during the coronavirus pandemic. Zero, I guess? Right. That’s just all our self-importance disappeared.
The Next Virus will not be biological
By: John Brown
Tags: Virus, Pandemic, Cure

“It’s so hard to stay together

Passing through revolving doors

We need someone to talk to

And someone to sweep the floors”

Neil Peart, 1984

Our lives have changed forever. Even as I write those words, they sound hyperbolic, but they aren’t. Anyone who believes that this virus is like a bad snowstorm, that the snow will melt and the sun will come out is in the same dreamy denial that I have been in.

“Social distancing” has become a the only real advice health officials have for us, which may be well advised, but is also a strange and ironic acceleration of a societal trend that has been in motion for many years. “Social distancing” is now a condition, no — a “prescription” — that we have been enacting since before news came out of China that there was an extremely contagious virus spreading quickly through their population, so we should be masters of It now.

I am NOT saying that social distancing is BAD. It’s necessary. It’s just that the idea of it has triggered an epiphany that —

Our reliance on technology instead of one another. Our continued and accelerated political division. Our ideological intolerance. Our racism. Our misogyny and homophobia. Our anti-intellectualism. Our fear of change. And our economic disparity, rooted in selfishness have been ripping us apart for decades.

This new virus is only a physical manifestation of an old unnamed spiritual disease that has infected us for years.

There is no cure for the new coronavirus, no treatment for COVID-19, and a vaccine is a ways off. Medical officials are telling us that we must let the virus run its course. Our lives have become the backstory of every post-apocalyptic disaster movie and/or dystopian novel that we have seen or read. But, there is a treatment for the distance that has grown between us all. But, unlike the coronavirus, we can’t let this other dis-ease run it’s course.
A Rant From A Very Frustrated Retail Worker In Quebec Amidst Covid-19
By: Melissa Clarke
Tags: Covid 19, Marijuana, Retail, Virus, Montreal

Photo by Mike Petrucci on Unsplash

Why is it that non-essential stores are still open amidst the Covid-19 pandemic? The federal and provincial governments have stressed the importance of social distancing and made it very clear that individuals should truly only venture out into the public to get groceries or other essential things and to basically avoid close social contact. In the Montreal and surrounding areas, schools, community centres, arenas, and other areas of social gathering are closed until at least April 1st. Yet malls remain open. What’s worse is that, in my personal experience, no information whatsoever has been shared to employees as far as I am aware. I work full time in a rather large retail store located in a mall and have not heard one word from upper management, other than a few hand washing posters near the sinks and a print out from the government about what they are advising businesses to do, placed on the lunch room table…which is littered with other random “stuff” and easily missed by many employees. Again, as far as I am aware staff hasn’t been reminded to stay home if they have any flu-like symptoms, nor were they explicitly told how to keep good hygiene in these times. While I do believe that this is also up to the individual to seek out the proper information and inform themselves, when you work with a bunch of teens and young adults, you never really know where they go to get information, nor if they have even attempted to inform themselves. Thus the responsibility falls on the employer to inform their employees. If I work 40 hours a week and haven’t heard a word, how many other people have not been informed? I don’t want to throw my employer under the bus, but what the actual fuck? I know for a fact at least one employee (a manager no less) came in with flu symptoms, how many others are also doing this and unknowingly passing along the virus. Also, what is it with people buying copious amounts of marijuana right now? I don’t want to speak for someone else, but my partner works at the SQDC, where also one employee decided to come into work with flu like symptoms, and he was saying it’s the most busy they’ve been since opening. Stay home and save your lungs…and your community. As a younger person you may be thinking, if I get sick I will be fine, which you probably will. But this is not about you. This is about the people at risk, your parents, grandparents, maybe a niece or nephew with an existing health issue. Please just take a minute to consider the risk of your actions during this pandemic. And for the love of all that is good, stop hoarding all the toilet paper and wash your damn hands!