Anonymous ID: 17b2dc Feb. 11, 2022, 4:13 p.m. No.15605371   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Brain controlled zombies?

 

The anchor Tweet was simple: “Prepared for a #zombie apocalypse? If so, ur prepared for any emergency. Learn how: CDC PH Matters blog.” It went viral within 10 minutes. On just the first day, the Tweet, blog, and the web page had 200 million impressions. After a week, that number reached 3.3 billion. More importantly, people engaged in preparedness discussions on social media, and traffic to CDC’s Emergency Preparedness page increased 1,143% compared to the same date the previous year.

 

It was unconventional for a science-based organization to do something tongue in cheek, so what inspired this approach? Catherine Jamal, who lead the project, calls it “social media listening.” For one week, she and her team posted basic emergency preparedness facts on CDC’s Emergency Preparedness Twitter feed. Then they asked, “What are you preparing for?” And to their surprise, Jamal and her team noticed a trend in people listing the usual suspects – natural disasters, disease outbreaks, terror events—and a zombie apocalypse.

 

Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication is not just about feeding the public what you want to tell them. It’s also about listening to what they want to hear. Watching social media trends and engaging with your audience can help drive them to the important information you’re trying to communicate. CDC’s 2011 blog on Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse, and the zombie preparedness campaign that followed, brought readers to CDC’s Emergency Preparedness page at a time when the page was not getting a lot of traffic despite the valuable guidance included on how to prepare for any emergency. Humor would not normally be appropriate during an emergency, but—per the CERC rhythmCdc-pdf’s preparedness phase—effective emergencies start with good planning. In this case, our communication team realized that people were more interested in preparing for real-life emergencies if it also meant they’d be ready for a future (imaginary) zombie scare.

 

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Anonymous ID: 17b2dc Feb. 11, 2022, 4:38 p.m. No.15605587   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>5606 >>5636

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HIV-1: fifteen proteins and an RNA

Abstract

 

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 is a complex retrovirus encoding 15 distinct proteins. Substantial progress has been made toward understanding the function of each protein, and three-dimensional structures of many components, including portions of the RNA genome, have been determined. This review describes the function of each component in the context of the viral life cycle: the Gag and Env structural proteins MA (matrix), CA (capsid), NC (nucleocapsid), p6, SU (surface), and TM (transmembrane); the Pol enzymes PR (protease), RT (reverse transcriptase), and IN (integrase); the gene regulatory proteins Tat and Rev; and the accessory proteins Nef, Vif, Vpr, and Vpu. The review highlights recent biochemical and structural studies that help clarify the mechanisms of viral assembly, infection, and replication.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9759480/