But perhaps most important, the stigma of being infected has to be eliminated, and this takes time.
Another key number is the incubation period--how long it takes one person to become sick after being infected.
Six people have died after being infected with the H7N9 bird flu virus, according to Chinese state media Friday.
One flaw, in the Microsoft Color Management Module, could lead to a computer being infected by a user simply viewing an infected image on a Web site.
Working out the number of new infections each year is complicated, as many people are undiagnosed and there can be a long delay between someone being infected and finding out.
It is thought these cases do not represent a "tip of the iceberg" with far more people being infected with mild or no symptoms, but the infection is still being analysed.
No active-duty soldiers have died from the infections, but five extremely sick patients who were in the same hospitals as the injured soldiers have died after being infected with the bacteria, Acinetobacter baumannii.
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The manager will need to set up firewalls around the sales unit to prevent it being infected by money-driven behavior, unless and until the firm as a whole transitions to customer capitalism and the radical management needed to support it.
In most cases, people are infected after being exposed to saliva from an infected person, usually while traveling to parts of the world, such as Africa and Asia, where the disease is more prevalent.
But it said that more than 500 "close contacts" of the 18 people infected were being closely monitored.
Other possibilities are that the mutations could be occurring in poultry or they are being generated after people are infected by birds.
Authorities believe the virus is being spread through direct contact with infected poultry.
Rabies is usually transferred through saliva from the bite of an infected animal, with dogs being the most common transmitter of rabies to humans.
The firms said computers infected by the Bamital botnet were being used for identify theft.
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Not only are we being asked to look out for ash, we are also being urged to identify ones that might be infected.
When one of these machines was exposed to Nimda without the throttle being installed, all but one of the group were infected within 12 minutes.
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He said both cases were related, but it looked as though the men had been infected separately from animals rather than the virus being passed between people.
But in Wales the mood was not conciliatory as protesters at the Epynt army range in Powys vented their anger that animals infected with foot-and-mouth were being brought into an area so far untouched by the virus.
The researchers compared the active genes in infected and uninfected male fruit flies to determine which were being switched on as a result of Wolbachia infection.
The Internet Crime Report might count, for example, how often a Web browsers become infected with malware, as a percent of the amount of time being spent online.
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Crew members say that infected workers often do not complain of their illness out of fear of not being paid or of losing their jobs.
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