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...fast-spreading computer virus called “W/32Sircam” has been flooding the Harvard campus since the summer...
First detected in July, the virus infects Microsoft Windows computers, mailing out the computer’s files and sometimes filling the hard drive, according to the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), the equivalent of the Center for Disease Control for computers...
...First, consider the practical effects: The anthrax threat has disrupted the nation's paper communications system as successfully as a super cyber-virus might affect the Internet. Then there's the psychological aspect: Terrified mail handlers are wearing rubber gloves. Office workers are afraid to open any letters. News organizations have closed their mailrooms. Government agencies and legislators are leaving constituent mail in bags. Pranksters are taxing first responders so heavily that frustrated law enforcement officers are threatening to put perpetrators in jail for life if they catch them. Hazmat teams are being rushed here and there to scoop...
...Smallpox is caused by the variola virus, and is spread from one person to another via infected saliva droplets. A person exposed to the virus might not show any symptoms for 12 days before developing a high fever, fatigue, headache and generalized back pain. Two or three days later, a characteristic rash develops over the face, arms and legs; the rash begins as flat lesions which fill with pus, then scab over and fall off in three or four weeks. Roughly 30 percent of smallpox patients eventually...
...History is scarred by the scourge of smallpox. The first recorded epidemic of the disease dates back to 1350 BC, and since then, hundreds of millions of people - old, young, rich and poor - have died or been blinded or disfigured by the smallpox virus. This story was supposed to have a happy ending: On May 8, 1980, nearly 200 years after Edward Jenner first inoculated a patient against smallpox, the 33rd Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) formally announced the eradication of the disease. Sixteen years later, the World Health Assembly recommended that the last smallpox stocks (thought...