Abstract
This chapter addresses those viruses that are considered to be viruses of humans. Viruses of humans are those that induce the diseases known as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, fever blisters, measles, mumps, polio, rubella, smallpox, T-cell leukemia, T-cell lymphoma, and type A influenza. Many of the viruses that can infect humans are not considered as virus of humans, but rather as zoonotic. Zoonotic viruses are those viruses of animals that can cross boundaries such that they occasionally infect humans. Zoonotic category includes most of the human illnesses induced either by arboviruses or by the hemorrhagic fever viruses. Humans represent dead-end hosts for zoonotic viruses. Achieving self-reproduction is the first principal goal of the virus. This chapter addresses the questions of where and how the virus begins its march through the host body, and how the virus then continues the course of this attack, leading ultimately to the concept of viral reproduction strategies at the host population level.
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