What does it mean to be a zoonotic virus and can you describe one such virus and the disease that it causes?
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Research 1 disease of your choice:
Discuss:
The microbe that causes the disease, including details of its morphology. For example, is it a DNA or RNA virus? Is it Gram positive or Gram negative; is it capable of producing endospores?
The means of transmission in detail- what is the vector, if any? Is it communicable or zoonotic? Is it infectious in the larval stage, egg stage, etc?
Symptoms, morbidity and mortality
Treatments and/or prevention
Describe what disease the rubella virus causes, signs and symptoms, modes of transmission and treatments for it.
How do viruses cause disease (the effect(s) on host cells or tissues that cause disease)? Name a specific virus and the disease it causes and how it causes the disease. This is not about the stages of the virus life cycle.
(Please include a reference)