The study of viruses raises pressing conceptual and philosophical questions about their nature, their classification, (O’Malley 2014, 45–94) (Mayr 1953) and their place within the biological world. A major set of problems concerns the individuality and diachronic identity of a … Read More
Viruses reproduce only inside the living cells of organisms, (Wu 2020) being known so far more than 6,000 species of viruses. (International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) 2020) When it infects a cell, the viruses force it to rapidly … Read More
Outbreaks of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in 1976 (navy blue) from 1977 to 2012 (bordeaux), and 2014 (sky blue). CIM-10: A98.4 CIM-9: 065.8 DiseasesDB: 18043 MedlinePlus: 001339 eMedicine: med/626 MeSH: D019142 The Ebola virus disease, also known as Ebola, or Ebola … Read More
Spyware does not directly spread in the manner of a computer virus or worm: generally, an infected system does not attempt to transmit the infection to other computers. Instead, spyware gets on a system through deception of the user or … Read More
