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Topic 6.3 Homework

7. Why are some pathogenic viruses potentially lethal (e.g. HIV, Ebola), while
others result in only fairly mild and temporary symptoms?

8. Distinguish between specific and non-specific immune responses.

9. What is a virus doing when it is not infecting a host cell?

10. In the very early years of research on the disease that we now know as AIDS,
government funding for research was close to non-existent. Other than the fact
that it was a fairly ‘new’ disease, can you think of one or more reasons why
funding was so low?