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...converted the grainy video from that night into a digital file and posted it on the Web. One by one, then hundreds by hundreds, people started downloading the video, e-mailing it, linking to it, sharing it, copying it and reuploading it. In other words, the little video went viral--it multiplied and reproduced and spread out of control on the Internet like a virus. And millions of people caught...
Bernal is famous now, in a way, but it's a new kind of fame, courtesy of a new medium. Viral videos are only a few minutes or even a few seconds long, and they're generally amateur in execution and wildly eclectic in subject matter. Browse one of the websites that hosts them, like YouTube or Google Video, and you'll see drunken karaoke, babies being born, plane crashes, burping contests, freakish sports accidents and far, far stranger things. The one thing they have in common is that people can't stop watching them...
...viral video probably began with the infamous Dancing Baby, which surfaced in 1996. A strangely compelling animation of a diapered infant getting its tiny groove on, the Dancing Baby was born as a software demo, but people started sending it to one another as an e-mail attachment. Until the Baby came along, nobody realized that that kind of spontaneous In box--to--In box sharing, following the and-they'll-tell-two-friends model, could ever add up to much, let alone scale to the level of a mass medium. "It wasn't as though a marketing firm attempted...
...group called clade 2. Preliminary evidence suggests that there?s not a lot of cross-reactivity between the two clades. That means that a person who has become immune - through sickness or inoculation - to an H5N1 virus from clade 1 would still be vulnerable to a clade 2 viral infection...
...told them how I thought the recent fever was most likely due to a brief viral illness and certainly if the fever recurred I would want to reexamine Seth. Again, I was met with blank expressions all around, except for Seth, who had found a stash of Pepperidge Farm goldfish in his mother?s purse and was happily munching them. I then asked if there was any information I hadn?t asked, if Seth had any other symptoms that I hadn?t touched upon. "You?re the doctor," Seth?s father said...