Synechococcus, 45
tobacco mosaic disease, 3 – 4 ; picture of virus, xii
(^) “Tree Man,” 24 – 25 , 27
(^) 28 Days Later (film), 74
Uganda, HIV and, 60 – 61
(^) United States: HIV in, 57 , 60 – 61 , 66 , 81 ; HPV vaccines in, 29 ; influenza in, 16 , 18 – 19 ; smallpox
eradication and, 86 ; West Nile virus in, 66 , 68 – 69
vaccinations: controversy over, 29 ; demand for and delivery of, 84 ; global differences in programs
of, 81 – 82 ; human papillomavirus and, 29 – 30 ; influenza and, 20 ; variolation and, 83
(^) variolation, 83
(^) vector-borne viruses, West Nile virus and, 68
(^) Vibrio, 43 , 45
(^) viral factories, 92
(^) ViroChip, 76
(^) virology, youth of as science, 2 – 3 , 5 – 6
(^) viruses: as contagious living fluid, 4 ; hosts and, 5 – 6 ; as living versus nonliving, 91 – 93 ; meaning of
word, 3 , 4 , 94 ; origins of life and, 91 ; scope of, 33 – 34 ; size of, 4 – 5 ; varied locations of, 1 – 3. See
also specific viruses
Weiss, Robin, 48 – 49
(^) West Nile virus, 64 – 69
(^) white blood cells: avian leukosis and, 54 ;HIV and, 54
(^) Willner, Dana, 2 – 3
(^) World Health Organization: SARS and, 76 ; smallpox and, 85 , 87 – 88
(^) World War I, bacteriophages and, 34 , 36
(^) World War II, bacteriophages and, 37
(^) Worobey, Michael, 59 , 60
zinc, common cold and, 11
(^) Zur Hausen, Harald, 25