{"id":576,"date":"2020-02-16T17:12:40","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T23:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docsam.ca\/?p=576"},"modified":"2020-02-16T17:12:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T23:12:40","slug":"recent-retrovirus-pandemics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docsam.ca\/?p=576","title":{"rendered":"Recent retrovirus pandemics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recent Retrovirus pandemics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the last half century we have&nbsp; witnessed&nbsp; several&nbsp; pandemics caused by these retroviruses , viz, ,swine influenza ( during First world war), HIV\/AIDS, Ebola, Sars and in 2020- Corona.&nbsp; These <strong>RNA<\/strong> viruses <strong>\u201c\u2026insert a copy of their own&nbsp; genome into the DNA of a host cell that it invades thus changing the genome of that host cell\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp; To do this i<strong>nversion process,<\/strong> retroviruses use their own <strong>reverse transcriptase<\/strong> enzyme to produce DNA from its own <strong>RNA genome<\/strong> . This new retroviral DNA- called a <strong>provirus<\/strong>&#8211; is incorporated into the host cell DNA genome with a <strong>intergrade enzyme<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However before a RNA virus can do this conversion it must&nbsp; first gain entrance into the human cell cytoplasm- usually a T4 thymus (helper ) cell. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although retroviruses may be useful tools in <strong>adding new genes to your DNA genome <\/strong>they do run the risk of potentially creating new retrovirus pathogens.-.\u00a0<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent Retrovirus pandemics. In the last half century we have&nbsp; witnessed&nbsp; several&nbsp; pandemics caused by these retroviruses , viz, ,swine influenza ( during First world war), HIV\/AIDS, Ebola, Sars and in 2020- Corona.&nbsp; These RNA viruses \u201c\u2026insert a copy of their own&nbsp; genome into the DNA of a host cell that it invades thus changing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.docsam.ca\/?p=576\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Recent retrovirus pandemics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docsam.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docsam.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docsam.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docsam.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docsam.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.docsam.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577,"href":"https:\/\/www.docsam.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docsam.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docsam.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docsam.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}