One strain of virus then infects all cells, producing a soup full of virus.
Once the malware infects the computer it generates a covert channel back to the cybercriminal.
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Botnets start when a virus infects a computer, either through spam or an infected web page.
C, which infects 3% of the world's population, or male impotence, seemingly an epidemic in America.
One statistical factor is the number of new people the typical sick person infects, known as "R".
When the worm infects a computer it sends out the "lol" message to the user's contact list.
Yet even without the thorn of Afghanistan, a list of divisive, unattended issues infects Pakistan's relations with America.
Each year malaria kills 1.1 million people and infects 300 million, and its incidence is growing 3% annually.
Skype, the internet communications platform, is being used by hackers to distribute a "worm" that infects Windows PCs.
And where the consultant gatekeeper is corrupt, where you have corruption at the top, it infects the entire organism.
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Malaria kills 1.1 million people and infects 300 million a year, and its incidence is growing by 3% annually.
When a virus infects a computer with a throttle, a huge backlog of requests develops within a few seconds.
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The most notorious of these is methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a bug that infects wounds and has become rife in hospitals.
But it only infects those who agree to download the proffered protection from a button shown on the warning page.
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The deadly chalara fungus is creeping its way across Britain and is threatening to wipe out ash trees it infects.
So why are we wasting billions of dollars to develop, test, and administer a vaccine against something that hardly infects anyone?
The disease infects the liver and causes jaundice, which is yellowing of the skin and eyes, fatigue, abdominal pain, nausea, and diarrhea.
This is much worse than the death rate in the U.S. for influenza, which infects 25 million people annually and kills 30, 000.
Otherwise, the virus does not appear to damage the computers it infects.
The virus infects the liver and causes jaundice, which is the yellowing of the skin and eyes, fatigue, abdominal pain, nausea and diarrhea.
One of the biggest risks is the roundworm Toxicara canis which infects dogs and can cause anything from stomach ache to eye damage.
Effective or not, an American spy operation directed at its own citizens infects the country's central nervous system, even granting arguable gray areas.
She uses a well-known and simple virus that usually infects bacteria, called M13, and runs experiments on them, 1 billion at a time.
But the virus doesn't appear to notably sicken infected birds, unlike H5N1, another avian-flu virus that is deadly in birds and occasionally infects people.
This is a story about loyalty no Marine leaves a fallen Marine on the battlefield but some betray each other as racial tension infects the company.
Though not a public health issue in the United States, malaria infects 500 million people every year and kills between 1 million and 3 million.
Genetic engineers have, however, tinkered with the phage, and have arranged for it to produce a fluorescent protein called luciferase when it infects a bacterium.
That is why HIV infects immune-system cells, rather than other sorts.
HIV, and causes symptoms in only 5-10% of those it infects.
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The vaccine works by preventing a sexually transmitted disease--the human papillomavirus, or HPV--that infects some 20 million Americans and is the main cause of cervical cancer.
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