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...Clean sinks, handles, railings and counters more often, since the virus can live for up to two days on such surfaces...
...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...
...weakened over the years, or maybe the vaccine is not as effective as it should have been. To sort all that out, investigators from Iowa and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are studying residents who became ill as well as those who were exposed to the virus but didn't get sick...
...fossils to the mapping of the genome, but it is also profoundly practical in application. Scientists are debating the likelihood and timing of a horrific pandemic caused by avian flu. Those who worry about that possibility and reject evolution live in a world of contradiction. If the H5N1 virus, the infective agent for avian flu, adopts a new lifestyle and moves directly from one human host to another, it would be because it evolved that capacity...
...there's nothing all that exotic about a firmly held political opinion, and the most notable - and instructive - thing to emerge from this psychological cottage industry may be that some section of the scientific community actually believes that political persuasions can be identified and parsed like a virus...