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Tragic Human Error Lead to Transplantation of HIV-positive Organs |
 ...Several Italian doctors have transplanted to three recipients organs that were infected by HIV. The information was provided by the hospital in Florence. The doctors from the Careggi hospital said that the liver and kidneys of an HIV-positive woman were transplanted after a laboratory biologist mistakenly wrote on a woman's medical records that she tested negative for the virus.
The chief of Careggi hospital, Edoardo M... |
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Storm virus attacks blogs |
 ...Storm virus is back again to infect blogs, webmails and bulletin boards. British and Korean computer security scientists claim it's a new variant of malware that is extremely difficult to detect.
The Storm worm looks like a message that features news about Europe's storms. In fact, this virus can evaluate network traffic on the computer and later insert a link to malicious website into user's post, webmail or bulleti... |
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Microsoft's Antivirus Causes Damage |
 ...erson of the software giant outlined that the company is fixing the problem of the antivirus that mistakenly deleted the .pst files of Outlook and the .dbx files of Outlook Express when it spotted an infected attachment in an e-mail. The spokesperson also mentioned that the updated version of OneCare will be released on March 13.... |
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A Trojan-horse strategy selected to fight bacteria |
 ...mice.
One of the problems of today's medical researches is the fact that bacteria become more and more resistant to antibiotics. The medicine cannot provide an effective drug to kill all the chronic infections occurring in wounds or in the lungs of people with cystic fibrosis.
This way the current study is directed at finding a new approach in fighting upper mentioned bacteria; and a result has been already found. This ... |
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HIV blood killed haemophilia patients |
 ...t of haemophilia patients in Britain.
The program created by NHS, a well-known health services in Britain, was meant to supply haemophiliacs with new blood product but it turned out that blood was infected with HIV and Hepatitis C. More than 2,000 patients infected through contaminated blood died or are reported to be seriously ill.
Newsnight BBC programme disclosed the hidden facts of contaminated blood use. It b... |
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Didier Stevens from Helsinki ran his advertising campaign on Google's Adword for half of the year. As a result of his campaign 409 people clicked on the ad, that said: "Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here!"
There are several suggestion on people's willingness to download malicious virus said Mikko Hypponen, who conducted the research at data security firm F-Secure. First of all, people must have mistakenly pu... |
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TROJAN ALERT! "Zenux" Steals FTP Access Codes |
| ...Many web-pages on the Internet have been infected by a malicious program, called Zenux. This Trojan infects different sites and then spreads through these sites on PCs of the visitors.
Presumably, the Zenux attacks computers and steals all FTP access logins and passwords, and starts copying itself onto web-pages through their FTP-server connections. A chain reaction starts: the more computers are infected, the more FTP a... |
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Bird Flu - Back to Europe |
| ...ction, Food Supplies and Agriculture. The H5N1 type of bird flu is the most dangerous type of this virus to people.
Tests in German laboratories for microbiology have proven that three swans were infected by the dangerous H5N1 strain in a lake near Nürnberg, in the Southern land of Bavaria. Scientists also examine two other specimen taken from a wild duck and a wild goose that were found in two different lakes ne... |
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Doctor Removes Gall Bladder through Woman's Mouth |
| ...he first surgery of this kind was made by the same doctor in Brazil. Both patients recovered sooner with no complications noticed. The doctor says that surgery holds minimum risks of abdominal cavity infection, it is still more effective than traditional methods. Removing organs through orifices quickens recovery period, with no scars and less pain.
Oral surgeries are considered more innovative and effective. There are... |
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PandaLabs' List of Unusual Malicious Software |
 ...PandaLabs have reviewed the list of most unusual and interesting malware.
The most religious virus: USBToy.A worm has been awarded this prestigious title. The reason for this was that each time an infected computer restarted, the worm showed the following Bible line, from the Genesis: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the dee... |
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AIDS to Spread Faster with Catholic Condom Ban |
 ... epidemic of AIDS due to the current policy of Roman Catholic Church that discourages the use of condoms, UN officials reported.
As much as 1.7 million people in Latin America countries already are infected with HIV virus causing AIDS and this tendency is growing with 410.000 new cases last year, UNAids programme officials say.
Due to the principles of Catholic Church exerting its influence in Latin America, contracep... |
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Mother Not Guilty for Piercing Daughter's Genitals |
 ...ter's head to make her look unappealing and insisted on genital piercing after she found out that the girl was having sex her boyfriend. Child welfare officials became concerned after the girl got an infection from piercing.
After a three hour counsel the court decided that women's intentions were not malicious and her actions didn't lead to permanent damage.
The girl refused to appear in court for the verdict. Ear... |
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Scientists Discover Clays to Fight Deadly Bacteria |
 ... from Arizona State University, specializing in the clay research, agreed to conduct the testing.
At the moment the scientists have no precise explanation as for how agricur treats MRSA and other infections. According to Dr Williams, they have discovered several anti-bacterial clays that are able to transfer unknown elements to the bacteria, impeding their metabolic function.
The scientists believe that it is not ... |
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Most Spam comes from the USA, says SophosLabs |
 ...because of the mail coming across the South border of the country.
During August 2007 the experts from Sophos discovered entire spam campaigns, which were based on malicious spam messages meant to infect their computers via a web-page, to which the user was being redirected from the spam message.
One of such spam campaigns was related to a mailing of 9 million spam messages during 48 hours. Users, who have clicked th... |
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Every Third Woman Would Have Real Sex with Her Virtual Partner |
 ...ew partners.
Experts claim that these results could not be called surprising for Australian society, since medical researches showed a disturbing growth of sexual diseases, such as HIV and chlamydia infection, during last 10 years.
Felicity Persival, chief editor of the Women's Health Magazine, noted people experience deep trust and closeness to other people they meet on such web portals as RSVP, Facebook or any other ... |
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