Health officials point out that Pakistan and neighbouring Afghanistan repeatedly re-infect one another due to significant population movements between the countries.
Early-stage research, at the University of California Los Angeles and the University of Pittsburgh, is looking into attacking acne through novel action mechanisms, such as harnessing viruses that naturally infect the acne-causing bacterium, which is known as Propionibacterium acnes.
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Antibiotic-resistant bacteria infect 100, 000 patients a year, and they are notoriously hard to fight.
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So even if the size of the EFSF is capped, the impression may well be created that French and German taxpayers have made an uncapped commitment to prop up Italy and Spain - which would infect the perceived strength of the French and German balance sheets.
They identified a previously unrecorded species of Candidatus, a group of disease-causing bacteria that infect many sorts of plant.
Past experiments have shown it to make viruses -- including the H5N1 bird flu virus -- more likely to infect ferrets, which are commonly used in flu research.
These drive-by download attacks can infect personal and business computers alike with all types of malware.
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Are your absolutely certain that your network is Y2K-compliant and cannot accidentally infect those of other organizations?
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Dai Zovi, coauthor of The Mac Hacker's Handbook, says JailbreakMe's sophistication is on a par with that of Stuxnet, a government-coded worm designed to infect Iran's nuclear facilities.
Which is why Morgan Stanley, the investment bank, has been warning about the emergence of a new credit crunch for southern European banks - which in turn could infect and undermine the ability of northern European banks to borrow.
Researchers writing in The Lancet do not know exactly why Mycobacterium abscessus - which is distantly related to the bacteria that causes tuberculosis - is more likely to infect people with cystic fibrosis but it could be related to problems with the immune system.
New viruses are formed when two different strains infect the same cell and exchange whole genes - a process known as genetic shift.
New studies show that a specific type of fungus native to East Africa can infect mosquitoes and reduce their lifespan by two-thirds - to just seven days.
The cybercriminals' exploit uses an increasingly common method to decide which pages to infect: Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) searches that probe sites en masse for hackable weak points.
According to an indictment (via Courthouse News Service), the two co-ed hackers developed a virus to infect the computers of fellow students and administrators.
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When they infect, norovirus and flu replicate at an incredible rate - producing billions of new viruses every day.
One of the main worries is that, if a computer-related problem occurs in one ill-prepared company or country, it will infect others.
Researchers have struggled to keep up with its quick metamorphoses and smart spam campaigns that use attached PDFs, e-cards, and even YouTube invitations to infect users with malicious software.
Madrid (CNN) -- A gang that used "ransomware" to infect and paralyze millions of computers in 30 nations has been broken up, the European police agency said Wednesday.
McDonald's (nyse: MCD - news - people) will post first-quarter and full-year earnings below Wall Street expectations, largely because mad-cow, a degenerative neurological disease that can infect humans who eat tainted beef, has scared Europeans away from the company's beef.
Collusion may not always be evident on the face of a settlement, and courts therefore must be particularly vigilant not only for explicit collusion, but also for more subtle signs that class counsel have allowed pursuit of their own self-interests and that of certain class members to infect the negotiations.
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HIV-positive, a man is twice as likely to infect a woman as a woman is a man.
Security firm F-Secure has experimented with different ways the exploit could infect users through email and text messages.
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If a truly malicious worm were to infect meters in a given area, there would be a best- and a worst-case scenario.
But how much do we actually know about how colds and flu spread - for example how many others does one cold sufferer infect?
Consider this: studies have shown that the infamous Zeus malware is able to infect an incredible 75% of systems that have both their anti-virus software properly running and up to date.
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Inhaling infected fluids in aerosol form - for example those produced during livestock birthing, can also infect.
Unless immunisation is re-started promptly it will allow the virus time to spread and infect more children.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources followed with its own study, which found that when lead bullets explode inside an animal, imperceptible particles of the metal can infect meat up to a foot and a half away from the bullet wound -- farther than previously thought.
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