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Should We Destroy Our Last Living Samples of the Virus That Causes Smallpox?
Later this month, the World Health Organization will decide whether or not to get rid of two live virus repositories in the United States and Russia
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Sea Otters Can Get the Human Flu
Scientists have no idea how the otters contracted the H1N1 virus, however
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Why Google Flu Trends Can’t Track the Flu (Yet)
The vaunted big data project falls victim to periodic tweaks in Google’s own search algorithms
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Over the past twenty years, cases of the MERS virus might have gone undetected in infected humans
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Top Ten Most-Destructive Computer Viruses
Created by underground crime syndicates and government agencies, these powerful viruses have done serious damage to computer networks worldwide
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