Biological Entity

A virus is a small biological entity that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism. Viruses can infect all types of life forms, from animals and plants to microorganisms.

Biological Entity

Infectious agent

Invading humanity

With deadly results

Copyright @ Phillozofee 2020

Author's Note

My thoughts are with those around the world who are suffering the consequences of this pandemic – both those who have lost loved ones and others under medical treatment/observations.

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

I study the bio war-fare. Virus, easy to be accepted. Someone create a monster. A combination of many viruses. Scary days shall come my friend. Time to stay home and hope. This deadly new virus can be stopped. Powerful words shared my friend.
Coyote

[Phill Oz O'fee]

It is interesting to note that virus-hit Wuhan has two laboratories linked to a Chinese bio-warfare program. And, according to an Israeli biological warfare expert, the deadly animal virus epidemic spreading globally, may have originated in a Wuhan laboratory linked to China’s covert biological weapons program. Certainly makes you think – thank you my friend for your insightful review! :-)

[Coyote Poetry]

We must stay close to home. So sad Italy got hit so hard. Tourist places like Florida in the USA. The virus brought to by the tourist. You are welcome my friend.

[emmajoy]

Few words, Phill - finely written, as usual. However those three lines hold hold such a such a mighty meaning.

Certain people are now passing the buck as to why global action wasn't taken when the virus was first
announced. Mind you, was news of the many deaths that rang the alarm buttons, not the fact the virus existed.

We must do what we must NOW, wherever we live, whatever faith or status.

(Just a thought, although in another direction : Without treatment, the risk of death from skin anthrax is 24%.[5] For intestinal infection, the risk of death is 25 to 75%, while respiratory anthrax has a mortality of 50 to 80%, even with treatment.[5][7] Until the 20th century, anthrax infections killed hundreds of thousands of people and animals each year. Anthrax has been developed as a weapon by a number of countries )

[Phill Oz O'fee]

In 2005, a group including researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology published research into the origin of the SARS coronavirus, finding that China's Horseshoe bats are natural reservoirs of SARS-like coronaviruses. Continuing this work over a period of years, researchers from the Institute sampled thousands of horseshoe bats in locations across China, isolating over 300 bat coronavirus sequences.

In 2015, the Institute published successful research on whether a bat coronavirus could be made to infect HeLa (an immortal cell line used in scientific research. It is the oldest and most commonly used human cell line).

A team from the Institute engineered a hybrid virus, combining a bat coronavirus with a SARS virus that had been adapted to grow in mice and mimic human disease. The hybrid virus was able to infect human cells.

In December 2019, cases of pneumonia associated with an unknown coronavirus were reported to health authorities in Wuhan. The Institute checked its coronavirus collection and found the new virus was 96 percent identical to a sample its researchers had taken from horseshoe bats in southwest China.

We call it COVID-19; I call it a man-made ‘Armageddon Virus’... :-(

[emmajoy]

Thank you, your mind goes deeper than mine.. interesting and wider knowledge/findings. Even more info available if one knows where to look, Phill. Am now feeling that i've done enough searching over the past few days. Must concentrate on the search for hope, common sense and a lot more guidance from experts with years of study. Can't bury heads in sand but slide into thinking of the way tides make our beaches shimmer under sunlight. Perhaps. :)

[Thomas Fitzgerald]

A true and honest piece that smacks all to well with reality, well done, good read.

[Phill Oz O'fee]

Thank you for your welcomed review Thomas - time for all of us to stay safe and well! :-)

[jacob erin-cilberto]

and mine are too...especially for those who died after being tested much too late.
Some say we are overreacting, being paranoid.
But I feel this is something to really worry about....
It is spreading too easily.
j.

[Phill Oz O'fee]

Will we learn lessons from this???? I hope we do... Thank you Jacob for your kind review. :-)