Word: viruses
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...This virus is rampant," says Dr. Stephen Curry of the New England Medical Center in Boston. "If it weren't for AIDS, stories about it would be on the front page of every newspaper." The doctor is referring to a fast-spreading blight that afflicts millions of Americans, including more and more teenage girls. Caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV), it is sexually transmitted, sometimes painful and often incurable. Its chief symptom in both men and women is genital warts, which frequently occur after infection...
Conventional treatments cannot rid the body of HPV, which can remain latent for decades. Thus the warts often recur. Worst of all, some types of HPV have been linked to cervical and other cancers; carriers of the virus who do not have warts are often unaware of the risk to themselves or their sexual partners...
What is new is the rapidly growing appetite for supercomputer power in the private sector. In a classic case of a technology developed for a few specialized purposes finding application in all sorts of unexpected areas, supercomputing has spread from one industry to another like a benevolent virus. Semiconductor manufacturers use supercomputers to design ways to squeeze more transistors into a square-centimeter chip of silicon. Financial advisers use them to devise investment strategies of dizzying complexity. Biochemists need them to predict which molecules are worth testing as new medicines. Engineers rely on them to design new cars, jet engines...
MEDICINE: Is the AIDS virus running rampant in the heterosexual population...
...their controversial new book, Crisis: Heterosexual Behavior in the Age of AIDS, Sex Therapists Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson answer yes, and provoke an uproar from the medical community. -- Amid popular confusion about the danger of AIDS, researchers are beginning to learn more about the virus and how it is transmitted during sex between men and women...