Monday, January 7, 2008

"bird flu"

The book is somewhat interesting but pretty bored, and the most interesting part is how the prion itself affects many factors that cause many mysterious things happening.
The first relevant topic that relates to the prion research pops in my mind is the bird flu. The prion disease has passed on from years to years, which has too many research findings. And the research still is not comprehensive completely, because it cannot be identified. In addition, it is very mystery medical that killed thousands of people and animals.

The topic of bird flu is similar to the prion research, because both of these “influenza viruses” cause infections in humans and animals. But there are some antiviral medicines use to resist human illness for bird flu, while there is none for prion illness. The bird flu and prion illness happened unexpectedly without warnings, and these “influenza viruses” began spreading out widely from person to person. The numbers of cases increased after years.

Finding treatments for these viruses is not easy, and the researchers and scientists have to do the research from the beginning of the outbreak to find more mysterious clues in order to able to solve the issue.

The main concern may be how to secure people from being exposed to the illness. the population now decreases due to the illness attacks. We may have to focus on how to prevent trauma things happening, and create reliable emergency help, which helps taking control of things better.

1 comment:

SciWriter25 said...

Over Christmas break I purchased a small battery operated toy monkey that, belts out a catchy techno song and rhythmically throws its arms, head and chest out to the music. It’s great! Engineer that I am, I then carefully sliced off its fur to examine its’ underside. For seven dollars I obtained the very nice monkey covering, several handfuls of soft plastic stuffing, four AA batteries, a nylon ‘hospital gown’ (most likely to prevent its wire arms and plastic tubing head from slicing through the skin and injuring someone) and an amazing robot with a plastic frame, motors, gears, pulleys, a speaker and a control box that governs a number of both coarse and fine moves. Yes the gluing was terrible and the manufacturer left little scribbled notes of no interest on the machine, but this is the future! Cheap, ubiquitous robots that make us laugh, run our businesses and now operate on us in hospitals when we’re far from home.
But there’s more. The technology that creates and manufactures these machines is also taking away our jobs and lowering America’s standard of living. We’re not only competing against the inexpensive foreign labor that now produces these machines, we’re competing against the machines that make the machines! And how do we stop or reverse this downward spiral? Some would say- just refuse to buy the toys? I say- compete with them. Use the abilities that make us human and build products that enthrall the toys. We’ll all be better for it. And our Christmases will continue to be filled with joy. (263 words)