But if it had listened to one helpful user who reported a bug in its registration system months ago, it might have avoided the whole fiasco.

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But recently he got a phone call asking him to play in a Sevens tournament in Bulgaria with some old friends from the amateur era, and having caught the bug again, played in another one a couple of weeks later.

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Since more than 1, 500 cases of the infection have been identified in America already this year, more than last year's total, the epidemiologists had better get their skates on in order to find out the secrets of a bug no one had heard about just a few years ago.

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For example, if uTest finds a software bug that the company decides must be fixed immediately, that is far more valuable to the customer than one that goes on a bug list to be fixed in the next six months.

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Now researchers at North Carolina State University and the University of Georgia will try to create their own version of an extremophile, one unlike any found even in the most extreme places--a bug that will create fuels like butanol or ethanol.

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At Bronglais in Aberystwyth, it said two wards had been closed following a sickness and diarrhoea bug, but one was expected to reopen following a deep clean.

BBC: North West Wales