Virus mainly affects the human respiratory tract. It can replicate in airway epithelial cells and endothelial cells, damage lung tissue, and destroy gas exchange barrier.

病毒主要侵犯人类呼吸道，一方面在呼吸道上皮细胞和血管内皮细胞内复制，损伤肺组织，破坏气体交换屏障；

youdao

Middlemen in Latvia, in cahoots with virus writers in neighboring Russia, were so brazen as to try to extort ransom from companies in exchange for sparing them from a virus-aided attack.

FORBES: Criminal Outbreak

It's a question not only of spam and virus control, but archiving all e-mails as required by Securities and Exchange Commission law.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Schrader said an estimated 20 million Exchange seats and 30 million Lotus Notes mail systems are vulnerable to the virus or its variants.

CNN: 'Melissa' mutates, becomes resistant to patch