Word: viral
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...been amazing," says deviantART founder Angelo Sotira. "Line Rider has become an event. It's viral growth at its best." The website, which launched in Aug. 2000 and now has 3.5 million members, receives 50,000 new submissions each day and stores 26 million works online. Sotira says a new version of Line Rider is expected soon, hopefully one with an "erase" feature as many users have requested...
...billion Estimated cost to U.S. consumers of computer-related crimes, such as identity theft, Internet scams and viral attacks, over the past two years...
...little as $7 a dose in Brazil. "For the poorest developing countries that's still unaffordable, but with greater use and greater manufacturing, that price will go down," says Roger I. Glass, director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center and former chief of the viral gastroenteritis unit at the cdc in Atlanta, Georgia. One dollar is about the price that Thai doctor Wandee would like to pay for the rotavirus vaccine. Rotavirus is the leading cause of diarrhea in Thai children today. In the 40 years since Wandee began championing oral rehydration at the Ramathibodi...
...genes that govern sialic-acid biology show major differences between chimps and humans. "And in every case," says Varki, "it's humans who are the odd one out." Such revelations could probably lead to a better understanding of such devastating diseases as malaria, AIDS and viral hepatitisand likely do so faster than by studying the human genome alone...
...Poliomyelitis, a contagious viral disease that once crippled and killed thousands of children annually, has been eliminated in most of the Western world thanks to a vaccine invented by Jonas Salk in the 1950s, but it still survives in some of the world's poorest countries. India seemed to be on the verge of eliminating polio last year, when it reported just 66 cases of the disease, down from 1600 in 2002. This year, however, things have gone horribly wrong with India's polio elimination campaign; 325 cases have been reported already, and at least 23 of them have been...