Every year up to 40 million people get infected with 1 of 20 sibling strains.
The recipient must also be running Series 60 software and accept the CommWarrior download to actually get infected.
If you are unlucky enough to get infected the odds are not good.
First of all, if a child can get infected from swimming, then this woman could have been infected when in the shower.
There've been lots of chances for (unintelligible) hunters to get infected with the chimp version of HIV through a bite or cut.
Consumers can get infected with MRSA during a hospital stay, from skin-to-skin contact, and by handling or eating meat contaminated with the bacteria.
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The non infected patient in the next room can take legal action if he or she should get infected, knowing about the red box next door!
That way, your computer will never get infected, nor will it be turned into a zombie ready to do the illicit bidding of some scam artist, identity thief, mail spammer or child pornographer.
"You have to tell them because this is the minimum honesty, you have to make sure you tell the patient there's a remote possibility they could get infected, otherwise you are really hiding very important information from them, " he told File on 4.
"A lot of physicians don't get newly infected HIV patients tested, " says William Young , CEO of ViroLogic.
"Cholera can be treated quickly and people can get better quickly but the challenge is ensuring they don't get re-infected and clean drinking water needs to be available, " he said.
HIV-infected workers who get no treatment typically take 55 days of sick leave in their final two years at work, says Sanlam in a newly finished survey of South African firms.
The appearance of cases with mild or no symptoms in humans could make tracing even more difficult, but may also mean that many people infected do not get seriously ill and recover quickly, making the virus is less deadly than it appears.
If all 5m infected people were to get such treatment, it would thus cost 35 billion rand.
"There is no excuse for failing to get your children protected, and infected children can cause grave problems for others - don't forget, " he said.
Most people who become infected by hepatitis C get it by sharing needles or other equipment to inject drugs, according to the Centers for Disease Control's website.
But the novel worm spotted recently by Spamhaus routes junk via the mail servers of the net service firm that infected machines used to get online in the first place.
So it's unlikely that you can get the infection directly from an infected person, such as a restaurant worker who doesn't wash his or her hands adequately after using the toilet.
It is thought that humans get ebola by coming into contact with infected chimpanzees or monkeys.
Just 750 of the firm's 30, 000 infected South African employees now get treatment, but 97% of them are back in full-time work, including heavy-duty physical labour.
Current methods take between 24 and 48 hours to get an answer as to whether the wound is infected.
If better-tolerated regimens existed, the market could surge as infected people with mild or no symptoms get treatment for the first time.
That's a form we've not seen in this country, ever, and a person would get that by eating raw or undercooked meat of an infected animal.
Precise data are not available on the total number of people who have been infected because it is difficult to ascertain how many get a mild form of NCoV.
You get it by drinking water or eating food that's been contaminated by an infected person.
He said past history suggests "it will get out" as there had been more than a thousand cases of people being infected in labs with the highest standards and the 1977 outbreak of flu may have been connected to a Russian facility.
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