Health problems are common worldwide. Dengue is a very dangerous infectious disease which istransmitted by mosquitoes. Seniors and children are particularly at risk. They are very vulnerable and theycan die from the consequences of the infection. Much research is being done, but still there is no vaccineavailable. Also, there is no real treatment. Those facts lead to more than ten [...]

I am very happy to announce to you a new guest blogger! Lucas Duits is a close friend of mine who also studied medicine at the University of Amsterdam. To finish his education he will follow his final internship in Malawi, Africa. In my opinion this very exciting and interesting project will be worthwhile following on viruskenner. Because of the [...]

The immune system To know what kind of harm viruses do to a body it is important to know how the body reacts to a virus. Like in hantavirus it seems that it is not the virus itself that causes the horrible symptoms but more likely the bodies reaction to the infected cells. In this blog I would like to [...]

Vandaag zijn we met de hele groep naar België geweest om daar naar Janssen Farmaceutica te gaan wat een farmaceutisch bedrijf is in Beerse waar een groot aantal medicijnen worden ontwikkeld. Voor we vertrokken hadden we echt geen idee wat ons te wachten stond. Om half acht verzamelde we op het Centraal station van Amsterdam om naar Tilburg te gaan [...]

Dames en heren van de viruskenner inmiddels heb ik 2 zeer sterke antwoorden gekregen op de klinische quiz. de deadline om antwoorden in te sturen zal woensdag 1 december zijn de winnaar zal op de site bekend gemaakt worden succes

There are many internet games and some board games on infectious diseases, here are some of them: Browser game thegreatflu.com, a sound and relatively realistic simulation of policy decisions when confronting viruses Board game pandemie (link in Dutch) was based on thegreatflu.com, is a very popular cooperation game, where mankind can only be saved by cooperation between the players Downloadable game for [...]

Hi there, I think it is a little bit to silent on viruskenner.org. logically you students have to little time to surf the internet because you’re working that hard on the projects. However I would like to do a little quiz with you. I do know at least one of the participating students wants to become a doctor in internal [...]

Many viral infections cause clinical symptoms, like headache or vomiting. Or worse like in hanta pulmonary syndrome where people die due to cardiac and pulmonary damage. However many viruses mimic the same clinical pattern, so only a medical history and examination are not enough to make a diagnosis. Therefore there are many diagnostic tools in virology. For my second blog [...]

oktober 5th 2010 was our first meet and greet with Imagine Foundation! At 19.30 we were expected to be at the Technical University in Delft. That ment leaving home (arnhem) at 5 and ofcourse stopping for a delicious big mac at macdonalds! So after ‘dinner’ we arrived at the TU, we were all very excited and didn’t know what to [...]

Vorige week hebben we ook gelijk onze eerste les gehad. Daarin ontmoeten we Raymond  Hannes en Eric van Gorp die ons zouden gaan begeleiden tijdens het project. Na een korte introductie van iedereen ,wie ben je , waarom doe je mee aan dit project en wat wil je later gaan doen) kregen we een presentatie over virussen. We kregen eerst [...]