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In this chapter, we provide insight into viruses that infect humans. Viruses are responsible for many human diseases. We discuss how new human viruses emerge, how our immune system fights them, how they evolve to escape from our immune response, and how the speed of viral evolution affects vaccine development. Measles, influenza, and HIV serve as examples of three viruses with very different properties. Many of the concepts appear again in a section about the COVID-19 pandemic. In the last part of the chapter, we turn away from viral diseases and consider viral fossils in our genome and finally discuss how viruses may be used to treat and cure human diseases.

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A Glimpse into the World of Human Viruses

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    2026年

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  • Hildegard Uecker,
  • Barbora Trubenová

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In this chapter, we provide insight into viruses that infect humans. Viruses are responsible for many human diseases. We discuss how new human viruses emerge, how our immune system fights them, how they evolve to escape from our immune response, and how the speed of viral evolution affects vaccine development. Measles, influenza, and HIV serve as examples of three viruses with very different properties. Many of the concepts appear again in a section about the COVID-19 pandemic. In the last part of the chapter, we turn away from viral diseases and consider viral fossils in our genome and finally discuss how viruses may be used to treat and cure human diseases.