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...mass culling of chickens in Thailand and other parts of Asia [NOTEBOOK, Feb. 2] did not mark the first time that officials have taken radical measures to control the outbreak of poultry disease. We reported on an eerily similar situation two years ago when a strain of avian-flu virus threatened to jump from birds to humans...
...your article on the MyDoom Virus (News, “MyDoom Virus Infects Harvard,” Feb. 4) You called open source software ‘uncopyrighted’ software. This is incorrect. Most open-source software is covered by the GPL or the BSD license (or similar licenses such as Apache and PHP license). If a programmer contributes to Linux she does not revoke her copyright on the code. She simply gives the user a license to use that code and to copy and modify it as she wishes. The copyright holder can still release the same code...
...evidence yet of the disease spreading from one person to another. But when humans do catch it, it is extremely deadly; at least eight people have already died, most of them children like Kaptan. And the great fear of health officials around the world is that the virus could, like SARS, jump the species barrier, mutate into a deadly and highly contagious form and set off a worldwide pandemic...
...antibody has been proven to disable the virus in a Petri dish and in unpublished animal studies, said Marasco, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School...
...antibody is a human monoclonal antibody, called 80R. By binding to the receptor of the virus (ACE2) in the animal cell, 80R prevents SARS virus from binding to and affecting the living cell...