The Zulacin Virus is a slightly deadly disease on Eura. It is normally found in the Akatree biome. It infects birds and mammals. It causes yellow circle shaped scars to emerge on its host and hair loss. Minor bloating comes after two weeks. After this coughing rapidly increases, vomiting starts two weeks later, now there is a 50:50 chance the host will die or the virus will slowly die out. It spreads through coughing, water, vomit and faeces. It is quite infectious but some birds and mammals have developed strong immune systems that are able to defend against the virus. Its microscopic shape is similar to bacteria phages on earth. They are known to rapidly replicate in the right sort of host, like Occan birds, which have learnt to avoid the disease at all costs.
How do the Occan birds avoid the virus?
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By flying away from anything that could contain the Zulacin Virus. They only eat a special type of poo
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Is this an example of zoonosis? Or is it something different
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It isn’t because it isn’t transmitted to humans, it is an interspecies virus not an interplanetary virus
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zoonosis has to be humans?
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No, it can be any sentient species, I was just using humans
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On earth the pathogens that cause disease are viruses, bacteria and fungus. You have blogged about viruses and bacteria. How about some deadly fungus?
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Yes, maybe in two posts from now
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Does Eura have any unique pathogens?
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Yes, they have plenty of unique pathogens. Here is an unique one. Its a strand of DNA that when it enters the cell produces more of itself and produces a chemical that stores the DNA before detaching from the cell and bursting open releasing the DNA. This repeats multiple times.
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They have a shape similar to bacteriophages, these are the viruses that infect bacteria on Earth. The shape of the protein shells of a bacteriophage can be can be lots of different shapes. But it is the head-tail structure that seems to be unique to phages and their close relatives. Is this what you meant? See the picture https://www.khanacademy.org/science/biology/biology-of-viruses/virus-biology/a/bacteriophages
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That is what I meant but the head is less circular and more like a cube which has two pyramids at the bottom and top. See the pictures for what I meant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage
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