Consider these scenarios. Scenario A: Carmen reads an article in Tasty Food magazine stating that eating an apple can help you f
eel awake and alert. Scenario B: Yuki reads an article in the Professional Journal of Medicine stating that ginger root can help prevent some types of cancer. Which article is more likely to have been peer reviewed? How do you know?
Answer: The article read by Yuki is more likely to have been peer-reviewed because this article is part of a Journal Medicine and peer-review is mandatory in most Academic journals before publication.
Explanation:
Peer-review implies academic works such as research papers or articles are verified by peers of the author. For example, a medical article is evaluated by other experts in the same field with similar knowledge and competences. This process is essential to guarantee the information is accurate and reliable. Moreover, peer-review is used mainly in academic journals or academic papers. Indeed, most academic journals require new articles or papers to be peer-review before these are published in the journal.
In this context, it is likely the article red by Yuki has been peer-reviewed because this is part of a Medicine journal and it is a general standard for articles in journals to be reviewed. Also, this is not a requirement for articles published in regular magazines such as Tasty Food magazine.
Ebola Virus is a single-stranded RNA (ribonucleic acid) virus.
The natural host of the virus is Fruit bat but it can also infect humans.
The transmission of the virus into humans is mediated from infected bats through body fluids.
The major disease caused by the virus is is Hemorrhagic fever. In this disease, the platelet (responsible for clotting of blood) count in the blood drops far below normal. As a result, bleeding can get initiated both in the body interior or exterior. This disease can cause multiple organ failure and death.
Recently, in the year 2018, the Central African country, Democratic Republic of Congo experienced a severely fatal endemic due to the Ebola virus that killed many people within a short period of time.
What is science? The goal of science is to learn how nature works by observing the natural and physical world, and to understand this world through research and experimentation.
