Iowa, Illinois and other midwestern states appear to be in the grip of a mumps outbreak. The CDC reports that more than 600 people have been infected by just two carriers of the virus. Two infected people on two separate airplanes. That fact alone demonstrates how easy it is these days for a virus to travel from one country to…
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Msdtc Exe
If you hit CTRL +Alt + Delete, you will launch your task manager on your Windows Operating System. With task manager open, you can choose from several tabs including; applications, processes, performance, networking and users. If you click on the processes tab, you will usually see dozens of processes running. While some like WinWord.exe are easy to understand, others like…
How Viruses Contaminate Your Computer
Viruses are little bits of software that normally have a negative impact on our computers when they are activated. Usually viruses are attached onto other software programs (games, disk utilities, office documents/Macros, screen-savers), and are activated when these normally harmless programs are started. A virus is inactive until the infected program is run or an infected boot record on a…
Don T Get Bugged By Mosquitoes This Year
Warm, wet weather has led to the early arrival of the West Nile virus this year. The pools of standing water left from the rains serve as excellent breeding places for mosquitoes, including those that carry the West Nile virus. Since the West Nile virus was first identified in the U.S. in 1999, mosquitoes have become more than just a…
Quick Guide On Genital Warts
Also known as Condyloma, the genital wart is a sexually transmitted disease giving rise to wart shape bumps on the sexual organs. As the name suggests, genital warts are eruptions on the sex organs that are caused by transmitting of a virus during anal, vaginal or oral sex. Once the virus is passed, the bumps start appearing on the penis,…
Can I Give My Dog The Flu
Avian Flu and Other Zoonotic Diseases Everyone seems on edge about the latest outbreak of avian flu. People in China are told to kill their poultry in order to keep the virus from spreading. Meanwhile people in the United States watch on in fear that the avian flu will come to their shores. So what exactly is all the hubbub…
Encephalitis A Brief Overview
Encephalitis literally translates to “inflammation of the brain”. It may sound like a scary and serious condition, but it rarely is. Of course, like any medical condition that involves any vital organ, leaving it untreated or not knowing that you’re already manifesting symptoms of the disease may prove fatal. Encephalitis appears in two forms, and these forms are categorized by…
Hepatitis In Dogs
Hepatitis, a disease of the liver that is seen in several animals, including humans, is caused by a viral infection. Canine hepatitis is caused by the virus designated CAV-1 which is seen only in dogs. Humans and other animals are not at risk to contract hepatitis from the CAV-1 virus. Like many viruses, CAV-1 first localizes and replicates in the…
The Demonization Of Genital Herpes
Those of us who have so-called “genital herpes” are caught between a rock and a hard place. On one hand we are ostracized by the minority of the population (about 40%) who don’t currently have herpes simplex in their body, which is bad enough, but more cruelly we are often isolated by our fellow members of the herpes community who…
Bird Flu Drive Thru
I’ll have a burger and fries to go and while I’m here check me for the bird flu. Well,… no not as such, but drive thru’s may be set up in VA hospitals in America as a suggestion by the government as a quick way of testing people who suspect they may have the bird flu.(This drive thru technique was…