Pandemic Alert Phases
In nature, influenza viruses circulate continuously among animals. Even though such viruses might theoretically develop into pandemic viruses, in
Phase 1 no viruses circulating among animals have been reported to cause infections in humans.
In Phase 2 an animal influenza virus circulating among domesticated or wild animals is known to have caused infection in humans, [...]

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Well before we look into what is happening around the world, let’s have a look at what swine flu is.
First what is Swine Flu?
Swine flu is a respiratory disease which infects pigs.
Caused by influenza type A, there are regular outbreaks among herds of pigs, where the disease causes high levels of illness but is rarely [...]

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Many users of Microsoft’s web-based Hotmail have expressed disappointments recently over a significant service. A visit to hotmail.com displays only a “Server is too busy” message. Also some users are see other hotmail problems that hotmail is down altogether while others are greeted with “Hotmail and Live Mail outage. Issue will be resolved soon. [...]

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Yes it had to happen. Facebook the largest community on the planet has had a battering by a worm. The koobface worm is a type of web application virus. Security experts warn the users of the massively popular online social networks to be watchful and use caution when on the network. The “Koobface” Facebook worm [...]

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