Updated: 2:49 p.m. Wednesday, April 06, 2016 | Posted: 11:27 a.m. Wednesday, April 06, 2016. State officials are threatening to reconsider a $280 million contract with its testing vendor after answers to 14,220 state standardized tests were erased because of a computer glitch last week.
Influenzavirus B is a genus in the virus family Orthomyxoviridae. The only species in this genus is called Influenza B virus. Influenza B viruses are only known to infect humans and seals, giving them influenza. This limited host and range is apparently responsible for the lack of Influenzavirus B-caused influenza pandemics in contrast with those caused by the morphologically similar Influenzavirus A as both mutate by both antigenic drift and reassortment. Currently there are two co-circulating
What is hepatitis B? Hepatitis B is a contagious liver disease caused by the hepatitis B virus. It can cause either acute or chronic illness. Acute hepatitis B is a newly acquired infection that causes illness within six months or less of exposure to the hepatitis B virus.Chronic hepatitis B results from the hepatitis B virus remaining in the body for six months or more.eath from chronic liver disease or liver cancer occurs in 15-25% of chronically infected people. How lon g is a person able to spread hepatitis B? Hepatitis B is present before symptoms appear and while symptoms are present. Persons with the hepatitis B virus in their blood can spread hepatitis B to others.