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.

ECONOMIST: A bug with social aspirations

When you find out that your Kryptonite bike lock can be opened with a Bic pen or that a bug in Java lets malicious websites take over your computer, the fix is in your hands: You send in your lock for a replacement or disable Java in your browser.

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