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...Epicyte's spotless laboratory, Hiatt is taking no chances. Tiny tobacco leaves injected with herpes-antibody genes fill the incubators--a backup, he says, in case corn is outlawed. And the company is branching out, developing plant-grown antibodies to fight respiratory syncytial virus, treat Alzheimer's, battle weaponized Ebola and even attack sperm--a kind of biopharm birth control...
...World Health Organization has warned that summer flooding in China could result in a surge of SARS. Overflowing sewage can spread the virus, which survives for days in human waste
...virus e-mail has an attachment with names like “approved.pif,” “movie28.pif,” or “application.pif” that contains the Palyh worm. The files act like normal executable files, and they infect the host machine when opened...
These feel like frightening times. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and terrorism are only the latest in a litany of fresh perils, from snipers to West Nile virus to mad cow disease. Many say things are riskier for humans now than they have ever been...
They have found, for instance, that we are often more frightened of a risk when it’s new than after we’ve lived with it for a while. So fear runs high in communities where West Nile virus first shows up, but subsides in the following years—even though the disease is still around and killing people. Similarly, humans are always more afraid of any risk when it is fraught with uncertainty. Take the D.C. sniper case of last year. A lot of intelligent people knew their personal risk of being shot was tiny...