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...rains that recently drenched the East have swelled ponds and left standing water in everything from flowerpots to abandoned tires--perfect skeeter-breeding pools. That would be bad news any year, but with mosquito-borne West Nile virus beginning its fifth summer in the U.S., health officials are increasingly worried. Controlling the maddeningly efficient insects may be the only effective way to control the sometimes deadly disease. Here's what scientists know about the operation of these ingenious stinging machines...
...mild winter and heavy spring rains across much of the country have led to predictions that the mosquito-borne West Nile virus, which killed 284 Americans last year, will be even worse this summer. But while West Nile prevention and surveillance programs are heating up around the country, mosquito breeding depends on capricious factors like local ecological systems, making it difficult to tell how bad this year's infestation will ultimately be. But West Nile--bearing mosquitoes are hardly the only pests looking to have a big summer. --By Molly Worthen...
When the Bugbear.b virus, which hit campus June 6, infects a machine, it sends messages to recipients on an individuals’ address book and past message history. In addition to a virus-laden attachment, such e-mails often contain text fragments from files on that machine, which may include documents and private correspondence...
Steen said that his department reacted quickly to the Bugbear virus, posting an announcement on their website and updating the virus definitions for the anti-virus software that all FAS affiliates are encouraged to install, and that the actual number of computers infected was minimal...
...Bugbear virus, what I can gather from around campus, affected a minimum number of machines here; it was pretty small,” he said. “What was more disturbing, I would say, is that people were getting e-mails from others that looked like they were sort of private correspondence...