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This week, the FBI has issued a warning to those who travel abroad and connect to the Internet from hotel rooms. U.S. authorities have found travelers' laptops are getting infected when they are accessing the Web from a hotel connection.
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A Russian anti-virus service has reported that over half a million Apple computers have been infected with the Flashback Trojan. The virus infection allows the computers to be available for potential hijacking and to be used as a "botnet".
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A new type of flu may have been found in bats. Hitherto scientists were of the general opinion that all types of flu in animals capable of contracting or carrying the flu virus had been discovered.
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Recently some science researchers controversially created a form of bird flu that was easily transmissible by air. This weekend it was announced that the research has been halted.
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The University of Rotterdam researchers in the Netherlands have created a mutated H5N1 bird virus. Made in the lab, the virus could not only go pandemic but is considered lethal to over 50% of those it affects.
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The FDA have issued a warning about the adminsitration of flu shots. The FDA is concerned that no safety data has been supplied for flu shots which are adminstered using jet injectors. A flue shot shot should remain as a needle shot or as a nasal spray.
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Scientists operating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed an antiviral drug that promises to end infections from virtually all known viruses, from the common cold to exotic hemorrhagic fevers.
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Two young children were reported to have contracted a new 'hybrid' influenza virus, a gene 're-assortment' that appears to have successfully jumped from pigs to humans and again from one human to another.
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Icelandic singer Björk is in the process of developing her next album that will double as a chain of applications for the iPad. Neither the artist nor her peers involved in the project are sparing any expense in order to get the most of such a concept.
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Taking a page from its Flu Trends offering, Google has begun using search terminology to monitor outbreaks of Dengue fever, a particularly nasty mosquito-born virus that impacts populated tropical areas worldwide.
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