• Question: what is the most dangerous virus you have seen?

    Asked by 833mcrk46 to Emma, Lea, Christopher, Ashley, Ananthi, Aaron on 4 Nov 2017. This question was also asked by 868mcrk46, 578mcrk46.
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      Emma Stevenson answered on 4 Nov 2017:

      I don’t work with viruses. But I have been to a lab that works with some like HIV.

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      Ananthi Ramachandran answered on 5 Nov 2017:

      To be honest I have not seen any dangerous viruses. Of course there are some horrible viruses out there like HIV and Ebola and there are viruses like the common cold and the flu which feel awful when we have them but really aren’t all that bad compared to others. I do work with viruses, but these viruses are special as they don’t call illnesses in humans, they only attack bacteria. These viruses are called bacteriophages.

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      Ashley Otter answered on 6 Nov 2017:

      During my undergraduate, I was lucky enough to go to labs that were part of the Ministry of Defence. I didn’t actually see any viruses there, but I was luck to go into the labs that work on ebola and other hemorrhagic fever viruses as they were currently down for cleaning

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      Christopher Richardson answered on 6 Nov 2017:

      I would say that the most dangerous virus is the Marburg virus! It causes death in 90% of people it infects and causes bleeding from the ears, eyes, nose and internal organs like something out of a horror film!
      My experience with this virus extends to travelling to central Africa to work out “who what when and where” the virus came from!

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      Aaron Brown answered on 6 Nov 2017:

      I’m afraid I don’t work with any dangerous viruses, the microbes I work with are a little more ‘friendly’ 🙂

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