Viruses
A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism. Viruses infect all types of life forms, from animals and plants to microorganisms, including bacteria and archaea. Since Dmitri Ivanovsky's 1892 article describing a non-bacterial pathogen infecting tobacco plants and the discovery of the tobacco mosaic virus by Martinus Beijerinck in 1898, more than 6,000 virus species have been described in detail of the millions of types of viruses in the environment. Viruses are found in almost every ecosystem on Earth and are the most numerous type of biological entity. The study of …
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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 7 September 2024 English
is the leading cause of blindness, caused by a multiplicity of factors including lens solutions, viruses, steroids and more …
multiplicity of factors including lens solutions, viruses, steroids and more …
LC: Library of Congress · 2022 English
Cover title. "This publication has been made possible in part by generous funding from USAID"--Page 2. Includes bibliographical references (pages 44-53). System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Description based on online …
characterised by microscopic bacteria, archaea, viruses, and small eukaryotes. Research focused on this …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 22 December 2021 English
The Wildlife Institute of India published this report in December 2021. It presents the plan for the reintroductions (also called conservation translocations) of cheetahs in India, curated by the Wildlife …
rhinotracheitis, Feline calicivirus, Feline panleukopenia viruses, Feline herpes virus type 1 and Chlamydophila felis …
INSA: Indian National Science Academy · 1 March 2021 English
Viruses are older than mankind and are more numerous than all other forms of life put together. Although their existence has been known to man for several centuries, the arrival of SARS-CoV-2 towards the …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 2021 English
This glossary was published by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2021. The initial edition of the glossary was published in 1986 and aimed to “help clarify the meaning and …
from travel between countries – especially novel viruses, and other communicable diseases. These global …
LC: Library of Congress · 2021 English
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Invest India www site viewed April 06, 2022).
prevailing practices to inactivate corona viruses. Operators of ETPs/STPs attached with discharge …
LC: Library of Congress · 2021 English
"On 6 April 2021, the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), Mumbai, India and the School of Sustainability, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel, hosted a virtual conference title 'Envisioning the Post-pandemic Metropolis: …
there have been multiple outbreaks of zoonotic viruses, but the world did not take them seriously enough … MERS, Zika and Ebola were all caused by zoonotic viruses, which research scientists say were transmitted …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 15 December 2020 English
The United Nations Development Programme released its 30th annual Human Development Report, titled The next frontier: Human development and the Anthropocene, on December 15, 2020.It was written by the Human …
squeezing local ecosystems so hard that deadly viruses spill out. The novel coronavirus may be the latest …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 3 April 2020 English
The nationwide Covid-19 lockdown that started on March 25 has triggered distress for millions of ordinary Indians – stranded migrant workers, farmers, sugarcane cutters, Adivasis, Dalits, sanitation workers, construction labourers, …
history of how villages over centuries engaged with viruses, plagues and epidemics – relating that to the current …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 2020 English
This collection of essays is “part reflections, part analyses, and part reportages” on the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic in India, with a focus on migrant workers.The book’s editor, Ranabir …
World. These animals probably transported the viruses capable of causing hemorrhagic fevers. The Aztecs … the Chinese sought to explain the history of the viruses, and implored the world to understand their initial … “authoritarianism” and “democracy”? Remember, viruses are part of nature. They attacked human beings …
