Viral Threats Research
Abstract
This effort is to better understand highly lethal or incapacitating viruses, including those that cause hemorrhagic diseases (viral infection that causes severe internal bleeding) such as dengue hemorrhagic fever (life-threatening form if disease caused by the Dengue virus, transmitted by mosquitoes) and Hantaviral pulmonary syndrome (caused by hantavirus infection resulting in internal bleeding; can be transmitted by exposure to rodents or their droppings). Basic research includes understanding risk to the Warfighter of contracting a viral disease based on its prevalence in the respective area of operations, viral biology (structure, function, life cycle of the virus and its ecological factors), the disease process, and disease interaction (symptomology) with the human body.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2020
- Source ID
- ed26a86a64d8b363bc41d75a0b5c9e4e