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...beginning of this academic year Harvard Medical School received $45 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to build a new biodefense research center. The facility will initially house nine research projects working to develop vaccines and treatments for anthrax, SARS, botulism, West Nile virus, and other of the world’s most dangerous pathogens...
...death for deliberately infecting more than 400 children with HIV. Rejecting the charges, Bulgaria, the E.U. and the U.S. led the international condemnation of the sentence. The defense argued that poor hygiene in a hospital in the northeastern port city of Benghazi had caused the spread of the virus. The verdict in the five-year-long case comes at a sensitive time for Libya, which has been seeking to rehabilitate itself internationally. The medics have the right to appeal...
...third major virus epidemic this year, following Mydoom in January and Bagle.J in February. Sasser is transmitted much faster than any of these and is not detected by such virus scan programs as McAfee and Norton...
...anti-virus company Symantec claims that by yesterday afternoon, over 10,000 computers worldwide were infected by Sasser. But many computer service websites placed the estimate closer to 100,000 machines. Companies in Finland, Taiwan, Australia and the United States were initially hardest-hit by the virus...
Computers running Windows 2000 or XP are vulnerable until they receive the Microsoft virus update download, available to Harvard staff and students on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Computer Services (FASCS) website. Macs and earlier versions of Windows are safe...