what kind of diseases/viruses do you look at? Are there any that you are particularly interested in?

Question: what kind of diseases/viruses do you look at? Are there any that you are particularly interested in?
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Asked by MadPippa to Craig on 6 Mar 2017.
- Craig O'Hare answered on 6 Mar 2017:
  
  Right now I look at DNA viruses as tools to understand how cells detect virus’ DNA.
  
  If I think it would be really cool to work on HIV as while we have lots of better treatments it is still a major health problem in our society and there is no cure.
  
  Examples of DNA viruses include Herpes Simplex Virus which gives us cold sores. I also have the Vaccinia virus in the lab. Vaccinia was a virus that was used to make the first ever vaccine which was for smallpox which is a very aggressive and contagious virus.
  
  In 1796, a man named Edward Jenner discovered that milk maids didn’t get infected with small pox as they got a less severe version called cowpox when they were young. Taking the cowpox sores from these maids and injecting them into people then stopped them getting smallpox as it thought their immune systems how to fight off the similar smallpox virus.

Question: what kind of diseases/viruses do you look at? Are there any that you are particularly interested in?