The virus there infected 175 people, said Patricia Huston of Dallas County Health and Human Services.
Jensen hopes to genetically modify them to ferret out tumors just as they would virus-infected cells.
The H7N9 virus has infected a total of 83 people, killing 17, state media said on Thursday.
This year, retail giant Best Buy confirmed that it sold autorun virus-infected digital picture frames under its in-house brand, Insignia.
And lab tests showed that the virus that infected the family had not mutated from its avian form, the researchers said.
And circumstances in Pakistan are no different from those in neighbouring India, where the virus has infected around four million people.
" Abrams even stated that McDonald's handling of its own virus-infected DAP problem was far superior to "a lesser company's blame game.
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Best Buy (nyse: BBY - news - people ) confirmed that it sold autorun virus-infected digital picture frames under its in-house brand, Insignia.
NASA's revelation this week that a computer virus had infected the International Space Station brought to mind images of cybercriminals sending astronauts plummeting toward a major U.S. city.
The virus had infected 44 people worldwide as of last week, most of them in the Middle East, according to the World Health Organization's most recent update Thursday.
H5N1 flu hasn't been reported in the U.S., but the virus has infected more than 600 people in other countries and appears to be resistant to traditional anti-viral treatments, researchers said.
The virus that infected him bears a 99.5% similarity to one isolated from the lung tissue of a 60-year-old man from Saudi Arabia who died this summer after suffering respiratory and kidney failure, the WHO said.
Washington (CNN) -- Federal authorities Wednesday announced an indictment charging three men in connection with a massive international cybercrime scheme that involved creating and distributing a virus that infected more than a million computers in the U.S. and Europe.
Allegedly, the vaccine makers grew the polio virus in kidney cells from chimps infected with the virus.
JE, which is caused by a mosquito-born virus carried by infected pigs, first broke out in the north of Malaysia five months ago.
Person-to-person transmission is believed to occur in a manner similar to the spread of the influenza virus: through infected people coughing and sneezing, the CDC said.
Health officials believe people are contracting the virus through direct contact with infected fowl and say there has been no evidence so far that the virus is spreading easily between people.
Anti-virus firms say they have received a few thousand copies of the virus which has now infected machines in more than 20 countries.
By this point last year officials there had discovered nine birds that had been killed by West Nile virus and not one infected mosquito.
The virus is transmitted through infected mosquitoes.
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According to Reuters, the World Health Organization (WHO) originally issued an international alert in late September saying a virus previously unknown in humans had infected a Qatari man who had recently been in Saudi Arabia, where another man with the same virus had died.
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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.
It's estimated that 1 in 50 in the city is infected with the virus.
When a person gets infected with a virus, the body typically mounts an immune response to it.
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The scam redirects users to fake web sites that tell users their computer is infected with a virus.
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When infected by a virus, the immune system typically targets those chains of dsRNA in an attempt to prevent replication.
However, when pregnant females are infected, the virus can damage the foetus, leading to a range of deformities at birth.
Nearly three quarters of all HIV carriers and almost 90% of the children infected with the virus live in Sub-Saharan Africa.
In a population of 11 million, at least 140, 000 are infected with the virus - an estimate many experts believe understates the incidence by half.
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