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...most serious known health threat facing the world is avian flu." LEE JONG WOOK, World Health Organization director-general, on the H5N1 virus that killed at least 36 people in Asia...
Since then, his company has developed the FortiGate security system, the only ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) accelerated network-based antivirus firewall system. As viruses attack a computer network, the FortiGate system, like a bouncer at the entrance to a popular nightclub, screens out the rogue operators before they can get to the computers. "Computer viruses are like the avian flu," Xie says. "You can vaccinate each person against the flu, or you can stop the virus before it gets there...
...film, “And the Band Played On,” and a talk by one of the first experts to discover the AIDS viral agent. Don Francis, whose research at the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in the early 1980s led to the identification of the AIDS virus, spoke of the history of AIDS and described the tensions at the CDC when gay men were dying of an unknown epidemic. He lamented in particular the “negative political forces from Washington,” who, when the CDC asked for more research money, told him that...
Hilary De Vries, whose last book was about publicists, has a new novel called The Gift Bag Chronicles. ?It's kind of sad. It's greed on display,? says De Vries. And the virus, she says, has spread beyond celebrities. ?There are tons of reporters who won't go to events if the bag isn't up to snuff. If they show up, the publicist can say this media outlet was here. And they can hand that list to the corporate client.? I have finally found a class I can teach at journalism school...
...While the spread of bird flu has yet to cause significant panic, the government is taking seriously fears that the virus may jump into the human population. On Friday, Health Minister Siti Fadila Supari announced that Indonesia had been granted a license to produce Tamiflu, the best-known treatment for bird flu. Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche approved requests to domestically produce and distribute the medication in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand, where the anti-viral drug is not patent protected...