Virus in Human Health

Virus discovery as submicroscopic entities, data from the end of the 19th century, which marked the beginning of a new research discipline, the viruses study. Since then, the presence of viruses has been found in cancer and in multiple diseases whose origin was unknown. Viruses have shown their great potential in triggering infections, causing pandemics at a high cost to society as the Spanish Flu in 1918. The challenge of acting at the health emergency due to the outbreak of diseases caused by new viruses, has led to research with the application of new technologies, in order to find strategies, diagnostic methods, treatment and development of vaccines.