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Viral Diseases of the Nervous System
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Microbiology
Undergraduate 3
05/14/2012

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This viral meningitis is the least dangerous type and is more common than bacterial meningitis:
Definition
Aseptic Meningitis
Term
This virus is only found in humans, is transmitted fecal/oral and is more prevalent in the summer:
Definition
Poliomyelitis
Term
Poliomyelitis is this kind of a virus and there is a vaccine:
Definition
Picornavirus
Term
This man invented the injection vaccine for Polio which is inactivated and 100% safe because it contains a dead virus:
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Salk
Term
This man invented the tri-oral polio vaccine but it is not 100% safe because it contains a weakened virus:
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Sabin
Term
This disease is caused by the rhabdovirus which means bullet shaped and causes fatal encephalitis:
Definition
Rabies
Term
These two viruses are caused by the biological arthropod vector mosquito:
Definition
  1. Eastern Equine Encephalitis
  2. West Nile Virus
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