... infections. This immune suppression may also factor in death, especially if secondary infections by normal bacteria ensue which is much how the AIDS virus works. The Ebola virus causes hemorrhagic fever, which is characterized by such symptoms as severe headache, weakness, and muscle aches, followed by vomiting, abdominal pain, ... between humans is principally due to direct, close contact, such as that between a patient and nurses and doctors. Unhygienic hospital conditions also spread the virus. The disease is diagnosed using a laboratory technique called ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosor...

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... Fortunately, there aren't many causes for the spread or infection of the Ebola virus, though 99.9% of the time the Ebola virus is spread in only a few distinct ways. "The virus can spread either through the air when someone who is infected is outside breathing in and out oxygen or by exposure to ... the contaminated blood of infected humans"(Oldstone 132). To know that a virus of Ebola's magnitude ... is contracted it then begins to replicate or make copies of itself into different organs, like the liver or pancreas. After the virus has been replicated, it then begins to give its host a...

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... with infected bats. If contact is made with the EVD symptoms may appear in the range of two to twenty-one days. Someone who has contracted the virus will experience weakness, fever, muscle pain, headache and sore throat. As the virus grows, vomiting, usually black, occurs, limited kidney and liver function, chest and abdominal pain, rash, and diarrhea begin. External bleeding from skin ... to the place where the outbreak happened to give help and to give advice to prevent more spread of the virus and additional cases. To regress the spread of the virus the medical scientist gather sampl...

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... you can get through the air, herpes spreads by direct contact. For example, if you have a cold sore and kiss someone, you can transfer the virus to his or her mouth. Similarly, if you have active genital herpes and have intercourse, you can give your partner genital herpes. Finally, if you have a cold sore and put your mouth on your partners" genitals (oral ... who recognize the symptoms of asymptomatic stage are far less likely to spread the virus when sores are present. The risk of catching herpes after a single sexual contact with an infected partner is not known, but the more contac...

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... with infected blood. There are a couple ways of getting it through direct contact with infected blood. One way is by sharing a hypodermic needle with someone who is infected. A tiny drop of infected blood stays inside the needle and syringe. So if a person uses it he or she is actually ... shooting the infected blood directly into his or her bloodstream. That little droplet of infected blood is enough to give you HIV. Sharing needles for skin-popping can spread HIV in the same way. This way a person is more likely to get infections such as ... what a person is shooting in the needle-her...

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... healthy immune system is completely varied. A way to determine how quickly someone might progress to AIDS is by determining their viral load, which is how much of the HIV virus is in the body, and the greater the quantity of the virus there is in the body, attacking against and destroying the T-cells, ... you must always use contraceptives such as the use of condoms alone or with spermicidal foam. Also you should remember that when you are sleeping with someone, you are basically sleeping with everyone that they have ever slept with (and vice versa) so whatever STDs those people had can...

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... think about when you hear the word AIDS? Most people think of a deadly virus that is transmitted by sex, needles, or blood transfusions. Then there are those who believe that one can get AIDS by hugging someone. Many of these people don't realize the severity of this modern plague. ... becomes susceptible to many different diseases (What is AIDS, 1997). Bacterium has shown to be helping prevent certain infections that go along with the AIDS virus (Eisenberg, 1994). When a person has AIDS, the AIDS victim become susceptible to many diseases known as opportunistic infections. Viruses that...

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... causing her to take down a mirror in her sitting room. Afraid of being assassinated, she wrote a letter to her butler, Paul Burrell, stating that someone was "planning an accident in her car."" Ten months later, Princess Diana and her friend, Dodi Fayed, were killed in a car accident in Paris. ... information so interesting and glamorous they become addictive. Hence, one believes it and passes it on. Americans of all races and political ideologies tend to give credulous to conspiracy theories (rumors) (Roefs, 1995). Among any other culture in the U.S., it is more pervasive within the Afri...

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... security, this cards are specifically designed to store encryption keys and other information used in authentication processes. The primary thought behind smart cards is to give obvious evidence of a user's identity. Smart cards can be utilized for everything from logging within to the system to giving secure Web correspondences and ... but it is verified from inside the smart card itself so any chance of the PIN being intercepted is 0%. Some may argue what happens if someone tires guessing the PIN with many attempts I say the administrators have designed this card so the user has only ...

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... the rate of casual sex skyrocketed, so did the rates of sexually transmitted diseases. Gonorrhea reports tripled and syphilis reports quadrupled between 1965-1975 (http://unhavax.harford.edu). To give and example of how horrific the spread of STD's was getting this quote was taken from Michael Callen, "I calculated that since becoming sexually active in 1973, I had racked ... B, non-A/B hepatitis; herpes simplex Types I and II; venereal warts; giardia lamblia and entamoeba histolytica; shigella flexneri and salmonella; syphilis; gonorrhea; nonspecific urethritis; chlamydia; cytomegalovi...

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... the public. The email messages that were being sent from the program were interacting with the web servers, making it very easy for someone to go through you email. (Oakes) The privacy loophole enables unsolicited emails to retrieve personal information on the receiver's computer using Web cookies ... lives that have to be fixed as soon as they are spotted. Sometimes, the recipient of the virus doesn't even notice that there is a problem. By the time they realize that someone has stolen all of their personal information, so much of their identity has been taken over, leaving them ... t...

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... about how some nation's satellite cable companies have lost well over $200 million dollars from illegal satellite hacking. Satellite hacking is when someone reprograms a satellite card or uses and illegal decoder to access channels and programs that the subscriber didn't pay the service provider for. ... Intimacy on the net is not worth the great amount of losses governed by criminals. The FBI and Carnivore aren't worried about someone self-disclosing information about themselves, they are concerned with catching criminals. Until this legal issue can be worked out, the proper surveillan...

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... such as prevention, education, and research and development in terms of finding a cure. Many people have made the correlation between a drug pusher and someone who knowingly transmits AIDS. The analogy is a drug pusher is the same as anAIDS pusher?. Their argument is that if drug pushers are treated ... suing people, it is important to look at those who are improperly sued. It has to be understood that no rational person wants to give this disease to someone else. It is a life altering condition that ultimately ends in death, and people aren't inherently cruel. Criminilization of AIDS wo...

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... the site of infection to the site of contact. For example, if you have a cold sore and kiss someone, you can transfer the virus to his or her mouth. Similarly, if you have active genital herpes and have vaginal or anal intercourse, you can give your partner genital herpes. Finally, if you have a cold sore and put your mouth on your partners" genitals ... (oral sex), you can give your partner genital herpes. Herpes is most easily spread when a sore is present, but it is also often spread at other times too. Some people notice itching, tingling or other sensations before they see anything...

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... Anyone who has engaged in risky behavior-such as sharing drug-injecting equipment or having unprotected sexual contact with an infected person or with someone whose HIV status is unknown-should consider being tested. A positive HIV test result does not mean that a person has AIDS. Not ... help people understand their test results. Nice To Know: Q: Is a home test kit for HIV available? A: No approved HIV test kit will give you a result at home. There is a kit available that is designed for you to collect a sample of your blood at home. Then ... as HIV are generally known as antiretroviral...

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... early 1980's. It is an issue that has sparked fear in everyone, but "society" has narrowed it down to certain people who can contract the AIDS virus. The typical "AIDS" victim is not an IV drug user or a practicing homosexual; they are African Americans, and minority women. AIDS is spread in many ... people are being educated or not depends more on if they are taking the time to actually research and get information on the HIV/AIDS virus, rather than people coming to give them information. There are many ways to get information, such as online websites, magazine articles, the library, he...

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... , was first recognized as a new and distinct clinical entity in 1981. Since then it has become a universal epidemic concerning all of mankind.(3) This epidemic is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus, also known as HIV. HIV belongs to the retrovirus family, a family of RNA viruses noted for possession of a viral reverse transcriptase.(2) Reverse transcriptase allows a retrovirus to synthesize DNA (deoxyribonucleic ... immune system cells become infected. HIV is frequently spread among injection drug users by the sharing of needles or syringes contaminated with minute quantities of...

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... of that time in regards to viruses and vaccines were very important in the world of medicine. Although the measles vaccine and HIV Aids virus are very different problems the roads to discovering a cure are similar. Among the major world epidemics the measles has been greatly underrated. The ... when overall interest in children increased in the 1960's. Measles is so contagious that it is passed by casual contact and the host may give it to someone else before the symptoms occur. The exact nature of the disease was determined as far back as 1875 by a Danish doctor named P.L. ... of nuclei...

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... into your system. Like I said earlier. You can't get it from mosquito bites, coughing or sneezing, sharing household items, or swimming in the same pool as someone with HIV. Some people talk about "shared body fluids" being risky for HIV, but no documented cases of HIV have been caused by sweat, saliva or tears ... or from sores caused by gum disease, or by eating very hot or sharp, pointed food. (*) It sounds weird but it's the truth.To infect someone, the virus has to get past the body's defenses. These include skin and saliva. If your skin is not broken or cut, it protects you against...

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... internet to enhance their business. For them to succeed in this new global economy it requires individuals to feel little or no apprehension to give up their personal information. In order for consumers to feel safe conducting business online companies have to step up and take the necessary steps ... first category of threats is technical threats, which are also known as malicious acts. Probably the most widely known of these threats is called a virus. A virus is a piece of software that attaches itself to other software like a leech and is designed to attach itself to other applications...

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... other programs to shut down (). Personnel Crimes The second major category associated with computer crime deals with breaches of personnel security. Personnel crimes deal with intruders either pretending to be someone that they are not or by committing a crime against another person via computer. One of the most common types of personnel crimes is called masquerading. Masquerading is defined as the ... to facilitate more devastating crimes" (). Viruses and worms are very similar and many people confuse the two. In computer terms, a virus is a program that alters other programs so they r...

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... that assists the transfer of HCV infected blood from one person to another can be a vector. Someone with HCV will have highly contagious blood and sharing blood related things is generally not recommended. The symptoms of the virus are not nearly as obvious as any other virus. This is why it is the "'silent killer"". This is because it destroys liver cells with ... practically no notice and can so for decades. Symptoms of this virus include fatigue, loss of appetite, weight loss, joint pain, nausea, and itching. To test if you have the virus, doctors would look at family history and giv...

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... both of them ruins their school and social life. Both of the victims" family were suing them more than 30 million in damages. In the article they also give some information about an estimated of illness that cause by E. coli. From the ground beef or ham burger that bought from BJ's wholesale club. "E. coli ... article this is not the first time they got this problems. Perhaps this is the time they have to The second article is about Norwalk. Norwalk is a virus that attaches to the outside of cells lining your intestine. Then it transfers its genetic material into that cell. There it repr...

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... both of them ruins their school and social life. Both of the victims" family were suing them more than 30 million in damages. In the article they also give some information about an estimated of illness that cause by E. coli. From the ground beef or ham burger that bought from BJ's wholesale club. "E. coli ... article this is not the first time they got this problems. Perhaps this is the time they have to The second article is about Norwalk. Norwalk is a virus that attaches to the outside of cells lining your intestine. Then it transfers its genetic material into that cell. There it repr...

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... Rom drive and restart their computer with a click of a mouse. This type of hacking also involves viruses, which sometimes no matter how many anti-virus programs or how good they are you can still get them. All the time hackers are creating more of these viruses and finding easier way to get ... them. A modern virus, which is circulating a round, is an email virus. This is a virus you can get just by opening an email or downloading an attachment. Another type of hacking focuses on fraud, which involves using ... of you winning something. Then it asks you to send some money or give inform...

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