Was is the causative agent (genus & species) of San Joaquin Valley Fever?
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The fungus Coccidioides immitis
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Not really... The hanta virus is transmitted by rodents. Check the official page of the Centre for Disease Control (government site)
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flu\nhe[patitis\nHiV\nebola\nherpes
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The probably multiple origins of viruses are lost in a sea of conjecture and speculation, which results mostly from their nature: no-one has ever detected a fossil virus as a particle; they are too small and probably too fragile to have withstood the kinds of processes that led to fossilisation, or even to preservation of short stretches of nucleic acid sequences in leaf tissues or insects in amber. \n\nAs a result, we are limited to studying viruses that are isolated in the present, or from material that is at most a few decades old. The new science (or art) of virus molecular systematics is, however, shedding a great deal of light on the distant relationships of, and in some cases on the presumed origins of, many important groups of viruses.  This is as a result of the sequencing of all or part of the genomes of representatives of many of the known varieties of viruses, including the largest (pox- and herpesviruses) and the smallest (gemini- and other ssDNA viruses).  If viral genomes are compared with each other and with cellular sequences, presumed patterns of evolution / divergence of the genomes can be reconstructed.\n\nGeminiviridae, for example, are a diverse group of viruses - with different genera having different numbers of genes and genome components - that presumably have a common origin - and one that may be traceable back to beyond 200 Myr BP, if one takes into account geographical diversity, and genetic divergence of vectors and of plant hosts (see Rybicki, 1994).   Divergence of these viruses is illustrated here.\n\nPotyviridae are also a putatively ancient family of viruses, with genera that have different numbers of genome components and whose gene pool is not shared by all members: a representative coat protein tree is shown here.  Bymoviruses have two genome components and are fungus-transmitted; all the rest have a single genome component.  Potyviruses are aphid-transmitted; rymo- and triticiviruses are mite-transmitted, and ipomoviruses are whitefly-transmitted.  They are supposed to descend from a fungal virus, probably over 200 Myr ago (AJ Gibbs, pers. comm.).\n\nIf one were to go far back into evolutionary time, a case could be made for descent from a single ancestor of at least the replicase-associated functions of all viruses with positive-sense and negative-sense single-strand RNA genomes; likewise, large DNA viruses like pox- and herpesviruses and Phycodnaviridae could be presumed to have "degenerated" (if one believes viruses to be degenerate organisms, which I for one do not...) from cellular organisms, given that their enzymes share more sequence similarity with sequences from cells than with other viruses or anything else. \n\nRetroviruses, pararetroviruses, retrotransposons and retroposons all probably share a common origin of the reverse transcription function, which in turn may be a living relic of the enzyme that enabled the switch from a presumably RNA-based genetics to DNA-based heredity. \n\nThe main message to come from "deep" phylogenetic studies is that early virus evolution was almost certainly modular: that is, that certain "core modules" that proved to be successful - like the retrovirus pol gene, and the picornavirus-like protease-Vpg-polymerase module - appear in a number of different contexts.   Thus, certain animal viruses - like picornaviruses and alphaviruses - have relatives among plant viruses which do not necessarily share the same morphology, number of genome components, or even genome organisation or number of genes. \n\nFor example, small spherical picornaviruses (ssRNA, 1 component, infect animals) are related to comoviruses (small spherical, 2 component, plant) and Potyviridae (filamentous, 1 or two genome components, plant), as part of a "Picorna-like Supergroup". Similarly, Sindbis (ssRNA, enveloped spherical, single RNA, animals) virus is related to Bromoviridae (naked spherical, 3 component, plant) and Tobamoviruses (naked
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There are eight types of viruses in this family known to cause disease in humans. These viruses are (HHV stands for human herpesviruses):\n\nHHV-1 = HSV-1 (herpes simplex virus 1): causes oral and/or genital herpes \nHHV-2 = HSV-2 (herpes simplex virus 2): causes oral and/or genital herpes \nHHV-3 = VZV (varicella zoster virus): causes chickenpox and shingles \nHHV-4 = EBV (Epstein-Barr virus), lymphocryptovirus: causes infectious mononucleosis, Burkitt's lymphoma and nasopharyngeal carcinoma \nHHV-5 = CMV (cytomegalovirus): causes infectious mononucleosis, retinitis, etc. \nHHV-6 = Human B-cell lymphotrophic virus or roseolovirus: causes "sixth disease" (known as roseola infantum or exanthem subitum) \nHHV-7 = closely related to HHV-6; causes roughly the same symptoms \nHHV-8 = a type of rhadinovirus = KSHV = Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus: causes Kaposi Sarcoma, primary effusion lymphoma and some types of multicentric Castleman's disease
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Has the Marin County virus spread that far north?\n\nBeggars and bums have more rights than productive citizens and the police?\n\nI hope you're not subject to the horrors of San Fran.
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Hydrogen and Nitrogen I THINK.  Not 100% on that one\nUpdate***\nA friend has suggested that it might also be full chemical name of the virus, though I don't know what that is.  His answer seems to be a more complete one, and given that he is a chemist... far more likely.
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Wood-boring bivalves of the family Teredinidae (commonly called shipworms) are known to harbor dense populations of gram-negative bacteria within specialized cells (bacteriocytes) in their gills. These symbionts are thought to provide enzymes, e.g., cellulase and dinitrogenase, which assist the host in utilizing wood as a primary food source. A cellulolytic, dinitrogen-fixing bacterium, Teredinibacter turnerae, has been isolated from the gill tissues of numerous teredinid bivalves and has been proposed to constitute the sole or predominant symbiont of this bivalve family. Here we demonstrate that one teredinid species, Lyrodus pedicellatus, contains at least four distinct bacterial 16S rRNA types within its gill bacteriocytes, one of which is identical to that of T. turnerae. Phylogenetic analyses indicate that the three newly detected ribotypes are derived from gamma proteobacteria that are related to but distinct (>6.5% sequence divergence) from T. turnerae. In situ hybridizations with 16S rRNA-directed probes demonstrated that the pattern of occurrence of symbiont ribotypes within bacteriocytes was predictable and specific, with some bacteriocytes containing two symbiont ribotypes. However, only two of the six possible pairwise combinations of the four ribotypes were observed to cooccur within the same host cells. The results presented here are consistent with the existence of a complex multiple symbiosis in this shipworm species.
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Bed bugs ( Cimex lectularius) can possibly transmit Hepatitis B.
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Colorado tick fever is an acute viral infection transmitted by the bite of the Dermacentor andersoni tick.  See the link below for more info.
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The scientific name of the most common and deadly form of the disease is Variola Major
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The California Valley Quail
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A new disease, causing death of mature white poplar trees (Populus alba L.), was observed in Hulla Valley in northern Israel in the summer of 2002. The affected branches turned yellowish brown, and the inner bark turned black. The bark dried out and separated from the underlying wood. Later, copious, dark pycnidia developed on the dead bark.
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try this:\n\nhttp://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/zo150/mozley/fall/insectCS.jpg
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Bite_Fever
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Just do a web search on "Acanthonyx petiverii" - you get lots of hits.\n\n\nThis was the top hit from Google:\nhttp://www.itis.usda.gov:8080/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=98594
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Influenzavirus A (a.k.a. Bird Flu) is a genus of a family of viruses called Orthomyxoviridae in virus classification. Influenzavirus A has only one species in it; that species is called "influenza A virus". Influenza A virus causes "avian influenza" (also known as bird flu, avian flu, influenzavirus A flu, type A flu, or genus A flu). It is hosted by birds, but may infect several species of mammals. All known subtypes are endemic in birds. It was first identified in Italy in the early 1900s and is now known to exist worldwide.