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Daniel's only communication is a sign resting against his knees, which reads "Hello, I'm Dan, US Veteran, Sick with Adv. Viral Illness, Homeless...
...given that floppy disks are ripe for viral infection, and recognizing that avoiding infection is the goal, the logical conclusion is to avoid floppies...
ORAL ALERT Viral infections--including HIV--can be transmitted by oral sex, concludes a review of the data. The partner whose mouth is in contact appears most at risk...
...comparing the DNA of the 1959 virus with that of samples taken from the '80s and '90s, Ho and his colleagues constructed a viral family tree in which the Leopoldville isolate sits right at the juncture where three subtypes branch out. The 39-year-old specimen is also strikingly similar to the other seven subtypes. The clear implication: all the viral strains can be traced back to a single event or a closely related group of events. One theory is that AIDS started through contact with infected monkeys in a remote area and spread to the rest of the population...
...people outside the medical community paid much attention last May when a three-year-old Hong Kong boy died of a mysterious flu that usually infects only birds. Even this fall, when seven more people came down with the same viral strain--and one of them died--doctors found comfort in the fact that the virus did not seem to be spread from person to person. But then last week two young cousins of one of the victims fell ill with what appeared to be the same disease, prompting medical authorities in the U.S. and China to warn that this...