Reddit - Virology
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Discussion of viral diseases on the Reddit.
Reddit - Virology
5h ago
I’m suddenly very interested in this field. Not professionally, but as an amateur. Why? Because I have a toddler. It’s a different virus every month.
I am getting a bit worried about these measles outbreaks, though she’s vaxxed with one dose which is normal for her age.
But I digress. Just wanted to join this subreddit since I learned a lot about viruses this year.
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Reddit - Virology
5h ago
I myself am autistic, diagnosed since age 2. I also was diagnosed with ADHD aged 5 and GAD sometime in my teens.
I have a load of varied special interests/hyper fixations, and virology is one of my current hyper fixations that is turning into a special interest.
I don’t know whether or not to pursue a career in it, since I am not so sure.
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Reddit - Virology
5h ago
I got into it by accident as a result of my anxiety about H5N1.
Apparently, there was one person who as a kid witnessed a local veterinarian in their country die of an illness and immediately sparked them to want to understand more.
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Reddit - Virology
5h ago
It seems to me that the HPAI H5N1 showing up in livestock cattle in the US appears to be much more milder and not as deadly as the ones currently infecting the seals and birds in Antarctica. Other than the 10 baby goats that got sick and died, none of the others appear to have gotten severely sick and/or died. The goats in the herd where the babies died, the rest of them tested negative for the virus and it was only the 10 babies who had died, and no other cases of sick or dead babies or goats have been reported since then.
I’ve always been curious about this.
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Reddit - Virology
5h ago
Hello! I recently took in a sick stray cat to nurse her back to health, but she has FHV1 and had some lesions/eye goo when I first got her. She is separated but I have other cats, one immunocompromised, and I can’t let him get it. My question is if I were to get any form of secretion on me, clothes, furniture, etc from the sick cat, how long a time would it still be transmit-able outside of the body. I clean myself and items well, but I am still curious about the possibility of spreading it. Thank you!
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Reddit - Virology
5h ago
I’ve had some issues since 2018 that would seem to point to an infection with HTLV. However I’ve done multiple antibody tests and a pcr and all are negative.
One doctor said it could be possible to be infected with a strain/version that possesses a truncated genome so it would not show up on those tests.
In that case what do you do? Is there any way under a microscope or by testing that would find such a thing? Maybe a research hospital like Johns Hopkins? Or just live with it but that’s no fun.
Thanks for any input. -Matt
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Reddit - Virology
2d ago
Im not a virologist, but I realized from scientists trying to cure diseases, like herpes for example. IF scientists did fine a cure, or found a way to eliminate viruses, Would it effect anything in the eco system? Macro or micro scale if one virus was just eliminated out of nowhere. Would would happen? If not that virus, what about other more dangerous ones? Is there cause and effects from doing something like that?
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Reddit - Virology
4d ago
Hello everyone,
Maybe this is a stupid question but here it goes:
More often I see news articles about another outbreak of the measels, or mumps in my country, caused by parents deciding not to vaccine their kids. This will happen more often in the future.
How big is the chance due to this outbreaks a virus mutates, causing current vaccines not to work properly anymore? It worries me.
Thanks in advance. English is not my Native language so sorry for any grammatical mistakes.
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