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...more Web pages, a couple more customer-service reps, run your traffic up another digit, expand into new product lines and sell a hundred thousand more books or CDs or power tools. This kind of growth--Internet gurus like David Wetherell, enthralled by the mathematics of community, call it viral growth--defies conventional valuation and makes the usual measure of retailing--same-store sales, sales per square foot--seem like roman numerals or the abacus, relics of another...
...several studies conducted with college women, nearly half tested positive for HPV. It is estimated that 10 million American women have active viral infections and perhaps 10 percent of them have diseased tissue as a result. Papilloma is associated with 95 percent of cervical cancer cases...
...soon-to-be-released guidebook entitled Healthy Travel, recommends inoculations or oral vaccines against the following: poliomyelitis, tetanus, diphtheria, typhoid fever, viral hepatitis, pneumococcal bacteria, influenza and meningococcal bacteria. The new guide also recommends the updating of childhood inoculations against measles, mumps and rubella...
...vessels. The proteins act like foremen at a construction site, making sure that all the pieces of the project come together smoothly. Animal experiments showed that there were several ways to get growth factors into the heart. You could inject a gene--either by itself or wrapped in a viral envelope--that tells the heart muscle how to make growth factor. Or you could skip the gene and just use the finished product, the growth-factor protein itself. The advantage of gene therapy is that you have to do it only once; the gene will keep generating growth-factor protein...
...January 2000, the AIDS epidemic will have claimed 15 million lives and left 40 million people living with a viral infection that slowly but relentlessly erodes the immune system. Accounting for more than 3 million deaths in the past year alone, the AIDS virus has become the deadliest microbe in the world, more lethal than even TB and malaria. There are 34 developing countries where the prevalence of this infection is 2% or greater. In Africa nearly a dozen countries have a rate higher than 10%, including four southern nations in which a quarter of the people are infected...