Dinding Ikango Jaata. Suntou, if you click on the link provided where Mr. Rybicki's article came from, you will see what the EBOLA virus looks like. In that picture, the EBOLA virus is a complex protein or it uses complex proteins similar to its host's proteins as a decoy to infect and live in the host. Multiplying ad-infinitum. What I shared with you and what you had already shared with my nephew Dibassey, is that given their mutational attributes (Like Jinns), viruses vary as their hosts vary. Perhaps this is what created the confusion for you to say that "Jinns are beings just like we are". Yes they can act like us, mimick us, and look like us. You also shared that they can come in different life-forms; animals. And inanimate objects. So can viruses. When they are in inanimate objects, they lay dormant. Perfectly comfortable in their dead host. But as soon as maggots, worms, insects, birds, or reptiles land on or utilize the inanimate objects, there they go again to attach to the live predator. You see how I mean don't you? So in effect, viruses are different as their hosts are unique. You and I probably have some and we don't even know it. If they are not causing us noticeable harm, we consider them benign or good. That is why I am on a quest to find good viruses/Jinns. Where's my nephew anyway? Haruna. In a message dated 8/8/2008 10:12:55 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: Haruna, i am not as multi-facet as you are. i am sure about what jinns are in attributes, i just need a bit of explaining as to what viruses are. any one can do me a favour. the guy may be up to some thing. i hope you look after your new found nephew as i am look after you my nephew. no laugh. Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Suntou, Unawares, you just timidly acknowledged one similarity between a virus and a Jinn, if with an Islamic perspective. You were at pains to share with my "nephew" Dibassey that you dont and the Ulemaa dont really know what Jinns consisted of. You share that only their characteristics (polyform and mutational attributes, ability to respond to sensation - perhaps endowed with a nervous system of sorts, etcetera). That they can be snakes, frogs, wind, insects, etc. Similarly, Mr. Rybicki, in the article below, submits that we have not yet determined what constitutes a virus. One reason being that they do not leave fossilized traces. Another reason is because they mutate and mimick the host's characteristics in such a way that it is hard to separate their constituent elements from those of their hosts. You have shared implicitly that several humans can have a Jinn or Jinns in common. And so can humans a virus/viruses in common. That goes to contagion. I think we are embarked on classical research here that combines both spiritual and mechanical/scientific research to solve a common quandry. At least for my "nephew" Dibassey. In time I will share with you good folk some information about a virus called PRION. Don't let the names fool you. It is just like giving your Jinns names, or hurricanes and tornadoes names for want of other qualification. So having a name does not constitutive form make. Innahu huwa yubdi'U wayu-eed, wahuwal ghafoorul wadood. Thul arsil majeed ............. Masoud. MQJGDT. Al Mu'Umin. In a message dated 8/7/2008 11:30:37 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: good efforts haruna. on my part i believe that jinns are a being just like we are. are they a virus, unless some one explains what consist of a virus, i cannot accept that claim. Haruna Darbo wrote: Could the two be one and the same? Enquiring minds want to know. Dibassey I'm trying to help you in your lifetime of angst. We may discover something together with Suntou. Avogadro's contemporaries thought he were silly too. Haruna. And he never obtained an invite to the infamous gaseous conference in Nouackchott. Ed Rybicki, a virologist at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, answers: Tracing the origins of viruses is difficult because they don't leave fossils and because of the tricks they use to make copies of themselves within the cells they've invaded. Some viruses even have the ability to stitch their own genes into those of the cells they infect, which means studying their ancestry requires untangling it from the history of their hosts and other organisms. What makes the process even more complicated is that viruses don't just infect humans; they can infect basically any organismâ€â€from _bacteria_ (http://www.sciam.com/topic.cfm?id=bacteria) to horses; seaweed to people. Still, scientists have been able to piece together some viral histories, based on the fact that the genes of many virusesâ€â€such as those that cause herpes and monoâ€â€seem to share some properties with cells' own genes. This could suggest that they started as big bits of cellular DNA and then became independent or that these viruses came along very early in _evolution_ (http://www.sciam.com/topic.cfm?id=evolution) , and some of their DNA stuck around in cells' genomes. The fact that some viruses that infect humans share structural features with viruses that infect bacteria could mean that all of these viruses have a common origin, dating back several billion years. This highlights another problem with tracing virus origins: most modern viruses seem to be a patchwork of bits that come from different sourcesâ€â€a sort of "mix and match" approach to building an organism. The fact that viruses like the deadly Ebola and Marburg viruses, as well as the distantly related viruses that cause measles and rabies, are only found in a limited number of species suggests that those viruses are relatively new after all, those organisms came along somewhat recently in evolutionary time. Many of these "new" viruses likely originated in insects many million years ago and at some point in evolution developed the ability to infect other speciesâ€â€probably as insects interacted with or fed from them. HIV, which is thought to have first emerged in humans in the 1930s, is another kind of virus, known as a retrovirus. These simple viruses are akin to elements found in normal cells that have the ability to copy and insert themselves throughout the genome. There are a number of viruses that have a similar way of copying themselvesâ€â€a process that reverses the normal flow of information in cells, which is where the term "retro" comes fromâ€â€and their central machinery for replication may be a bridge from the _original life-forms on this planet_ (http://www.sciamdigital.com/index.cfm?fa=Products.ViewIssuePreview&ARTICLEID_ CHAR=6A1A42E0-16E8-4F62-A20A-233B2E760B1) to what we know as life today. In fact, we carry among our genes many "fossilized" retrovirusesâ€⠀ left over from the infection of distant ancestorsâ€â€which can help us trace our evolution as a species. Then there are the viruses whose genomes are so large that scientists can't quite figure out what part of the cell they would have come from. Take, for instance, the largest-ever virus so far discovered, mimivirus: its genome is some 50 times larger than that of HIV and is larger than that of some bacteria. Some of the largest known viruses infect simple organisms such as amoebas and simple marine algae. This indicates that they may have an ancient origin, possibly as parasitic life-forms that then adapted to the "virus lifestyle." In fact, viruses may be responsible for significant episodes of evolutionary change, especially in more complex types of organisms. At the end of the day, however, despite all of their common features and unique abilities to copy and spread their genomes, the origins of most viruses may remain forever obscure. **************Looking for a car that's sporty, fun and fits in your budget? Read reviews on AOL Autos. 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