Word: viral
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They tested the ability of Remune to boost the immune response of HIV-infected people by reducing the patient's viral load because "it showed some activity in the lab," Cheng said...
...benign symptoms, more serious symptoms such as chest pain and shock ensue, and some patients become blind or begin to bleed profusely. This bleeding is caused by the breakdown of membranous tissues that separate different parts of the body from others. As these cells become infected and release their viral loads, the patients' organs effectively liquefy. Membranes that separate the patient from the outside world also breakdown, releasing this internal viral slurry. In effect, the patient becomes a human virus bomb...
...lesions started appearing on his skin. Within three years, he had been sold to Reino Aventura amusement park in Mexico City, where he spent 11 years in a small, warm concrete pool too shallow for a proper dive. He lost weight and became flabby and lethargic, and the viral skin infection spread. Reino Aventura tried to sell him, but no one wanted a sick whale...
What he was thinking was that this is the application that finally unleashes the potential of the Web, the viral growth possibilities of the community, the transgressive power of the Internet to leap over barriers and transform our assumptions about business, content and culture. He just couldn't spit out the words to convince his fellow programmers that his idea could change the world...
...terms of users, the Napster site is the fastest growing in history, recently passing the 25 million mark in less than a year of operation. And, as Fanning predicted, his program does everything a Web application is supposed to do: it builds community, it breaks down barriers, it is viral, it is scalable, it disintermediates--and, oh, yeah, it may be illegal...