Viruses: Impact on Science and Society

We examine the inter-relationships between viruses and human society. Following a short discussion of the etymology of the word “virus”, we consider the mutual impact of viruses and science, including the relationship between technological developments and virus discovery, advances in other biomedic...

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Autores principales: Sankaran, Neeraja, Weiss, Robin A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7833661/
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description We examine the inter-relationships between viruses and human society. Following a short discussion of the etymology of the word “virus”, we consider the mutual impact of viruses and science, including the relationship between technological developments and virus discovery, advances in other biomedical sciences gained through virology, and examples of harnessing viruses for specific purposes. We then survey the impact of viral diseases in terms of the human cost of pandemics throughout history to modern times. To end, we briefly touch upon the influence of viruses on art, literature and popular culture.
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spelling pubmed-78336612021-01-26 Viruses: Impact on Science and Society Sankaran, Neeraja Weiss, Robin A. Encyclopedia of Virology Article We examine the inter-relationships between viruses and human society. Following a short discussion of the etymology of the word “virus”, we consider the mutual impact of viruses and science, including the relationship between technological developments and virus discovery, advances in other biomedical sciences gained through virology, and examples of harnessing viruses for specific purposes. We then survey the impact of viral diseases in terms of the human cost of pandemics throughout history to modern times. To end, we briefly touch upon the influence of viruses on art, literature and popular culture. 2021 2021-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7833661/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-814515-9.00075-8 Text en Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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