This allows the world's top flu experts to study the virus and look for mutations that could make it more dangerous.

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Companies often do not realize that an employee has disabled the anti-virus software or fail to stay on top of available updates, he said.

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This outbreak, on top of another death last month in Saudi Arabia from a previously unknown virus, a cousin of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), has set global health agencies on edge.

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On top of that, if drugs are used carelessly, resistant strains of the virus can emerge, rendering the therapies useless.

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