Journals indexed in SCOPUS, PUBMED or WOS have had supremacy since long ago. Publishing in them has a sudden importance and with brush strokes of immortality. Not doing it in them sounds like mediocrity. However, no one is born knowing and today there are many other journals indexed to other search engines or not inconsiderable Internet media and that over time will amaze us like a third world war that has already begun. The impact indices will be attributed to "new" journals, which have had high visibility over the years, through -for example- the internet.

One Health: an updated term. Perhaps it means that there should not be major differences between the methodologies that involve the study of pathogens typical of humans and other animals. The techniques are similar, the analysis carried out does not differ and the conclusions are direct. Unlike Human Medicine, Veterinary Medicine is a multispecies discipline that must also provide a solution to the patient. The study of a viral cycle goes back to the study of the “metabolism” of bacteriophages and today several pathways are known through a virus affecting the permissive cell. Legend has it that when André Lwoff was asked for a definition of a virus, he said: viruses are viruses. Let’s see why…

There is evidence that viruses have been around for many years. Much is even known about their biology, their structural and physicochemical characteristics, but how to combat them through an appropriate design of antivirals is a pending challenge. Although the comparison with antimicrobials is tedious, it should be mentioned that an antimicrobial is designed or has as its target mechanism of action some bacterial structure that does not exist in viruses. Therefore, the design of an antiviral involves knowing the structure and the viral cycle of a particular virus. Today, this issue takes on an important role that has been relegated to a rearguard position due to the existence of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 viruses and in the case of monkeypox, it should become important even though human smallpox has been eradicated of the planet, according to the WHO, at the beginning of 1980.

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