When the bug was on a hairy patch it was detected, on average, every four seconds.
Most people shake off the bug within about a week with the help of antibiotics.
Mr Howard said he would scrap NHS targets to free up staff to fight the bug.
Patients with the bug are treated in wards closed to new admissions until the sickness passes.
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When customers learned about a flaw in Intel's Pentium chips, Grove refused to acknowledge the bug.
North Wales Health Authority said it still did not know how the bug reached the nursery.
While Twitter only confirmed the bug recently, I suspect it has been around for years.
The bug was just the latest in a series that wracked Oracle for much of 2012.
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Detectives planted the bug anyway - telling the French it was a tracking device.
The bug is very infectious and causes about 140, 000 cases every year in the under-fives.
This is the fourth time the bug has hit the hospital in the past 12 months.
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In a statement Microsoft said it was "investigating" the bug and working on a permanent fix.
The reason: The drug is supposed to affect the bug, not the person who is taking it.
The bug affects versions 5.5.x to 6.5.3 of the domestic and international versions of the PGP software.
First the bug has to be created, then it has to perform its tricks in the lab.
Doctors said he was the third person known to have acquired the bug from a human bite.
It said it expected the bug to be exploited within 24 hours of its existence becoming known.
Microsoft has published a security advisory for the bug, along with workarounds to protect XP users.
We hoped to provide you with a video of the bug, but it must be camera shy.
The bug in the Internet Explorer browser was discovered by anti-spyware firm Sunbelt Software on 21 September.
The RQIA concluded that the bug was linked to water from contaminated taps in hospital neonatal units.
But unlike many past cases, the bug has been traced to a fruit juice, not hamburger meat.
On its TechNet Web site, Microsoft refers to the bug as the "Web Server Folder Traversal" vulnerability.
Only one in seven bothered to reply, and half of those thought they were immune to the bug.
The BUG platform is constantly evolving to include new hardware modules to increase the flexibility of the platform.
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Only after the company snubbed him did he opt to exploit the bug for maximum embarrassment for Yahoo!
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So far, it said, there was no indication that attacks mounted via the bug were "dramatic and widespread".
Malthusianism is, indeed, the philosophy of the bug heap, of man as devouring swarm rather than ennobling angel.
Whether or not the bug currently gripping the country has reached epidemic levels or not will be irrelevant.
If exploited by a booby-trapped webpage the bug would allow attackers to take control of an unprotected computer.
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