Word: viruses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
BOSTON--An estimated 2.5 million people in North and South America are already infected with the AIDS virus, and some parts of the hemisphere may be facing "a massive epidemic" of AIDS, health experts warned yesterday...
Frank said that two bills passed last year, the Fair Housing Act and the Grove City Bill, protect people with AIDS, and carriers of the virus, from discrimination...
While ignorance still reigns, little remains that is actually taboo except male homosexuality. Those accused of the practice face three years in prison for a first offense. The handful who test positive for the AIDS virus and then have sex can get eight years...
Technically, the program was not a "virus," which inserts itself into a host program to propagate; it was actually a "worm," or an independent program that endlessly duplicates itself once placed in a computer system...
...causes genital warts, as the probable culprit. The University of Utah researchers, however, could only speculate about a possible mechanism by which smoking may cause cervical cancer. Harmful components of cigarette smoke, they suggest, may travel through the blood into the tissues of the cervix and somehow activate the virus...