lurks silently and patiently awaiting his next victim. He does not discriminate based on race‚ sex‚ or age‚ however; the youngest and eldest usually pay a higher price. This perpetrator who remains faceless is known as the influenza virus. The influenza virus commonly known as the flu is a contagious viral infection that invades its victim’s body via the nose and mouth affecting the respiratory system of the individual. It spreads by respiratory droplets through coughing and sneezing.
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Ebola By: Fahd Seddiki and Conrad Womelsdorf Discovery of Ebola The discovery of Ebola was made after an epidemic of this virus was spread throughout Sub-Sahara Africa. The actual discovery was made by a native by the name of DR. Ngoy Mushola. He discovered it in 1976 after the epidemic hit his country. The first case of Ebola was called Ebola Zaire. It was discovered in Zaire hence the name. The second discovery of Ebola was called Ebola Sudan; also it was discovered in Sudan. Although
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The Ebola virus‚ also know as Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a disease caused by viruses from four different families of viruses: 1)filoviruses‚ 2)arenavirus‚ 3)flavavirus‚ 4)bunyaviruses. The usual host for most of these viruses are rodents or anthropoids (such as ticks and mosquitoes). In some cases‚ such as the Ebola virus‚ the natural host for the virus is unknown. All forms of viral hemorrhagic fever begin with a fever and muscle aches. Depending on the particular virus‚ the disease
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Although people say it’s not a big deal‚ the Zika virus is a major problem in the world today‚ it is damaging the lives and will have an affect on the summer olympics because there isn’t a vaccine and it can be spread quickly through mosquitoes in the warm Rio climate. In 1947‚ in the Zika forest‚ a rhesus monkey was found with a fever. Scientist at the time decided it was best to cage the animal to see if the fever diminished‚ after two days symptoms still remained. The worried scientist rushed
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Conclusion and Recommendations Introduction This is the final chapter of this research with an objective to conclude the thought i.e. IT competencies and capabilities development in an organisation aimed to support critical competitive advantage functions and activities‚ particularly the knowledge creation/ management and utilising such knowledge in decision making to improve overall performance of the organisation. It can be concluded as a general statement from the whole discussion that these
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1.1. History Viruses that have been attenuated are less communicable than viruses that are not. Although the virus in the chickenpox inoculation is generally incompetent of causing an ailment‚ it still encourages a response from the body’s invulnerable system. 1.2. Causes In 1875‚ Steiner demonstrated that chickenpox was caused by a communicable agent by inoculating volunteers with the vesicular fluid from a patient with desperate varicella. Clinical explanations of the relationship between varicella
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Introduction This report will outline that it would be useful for our company to subsidize free distribution of anti-virus software to our home users. There will be analysis of the connection between the company ’s network and home users and how this will help our company ’s problems with viruses. I will discuss the other issues besides providing free software to home users that affect the network security of our firm. Additionally‚ I will describe the roles of top management/non-IT management
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Current news and developments in games Introduction In recent year computer games have been developed by professional developers and games studios. This article looks at the main areas that affect computer games development and brings you an update of what’s in the games development news today: Technology See text book p363 – 364 Artificial Intelligence See text book p364-365 General intro – say what it is and then how it is used in games. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence_(video_games)
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(a) Briefly explain in detail to the management about various fact/issues about ‘virus’ – what it is‚ how it spreads‚ what are the areas of infections‚ what are specific viruses. Most computer users get alarmed when they heard about the word “virus”. Virus brings a lot of damages in human’s computer works as it brought harmful effects. Viruses affect businesses’ efficiency‚ productivity and money as it really takes time to get rid off the threat. Viruses do easily‚ quickly and quietly spreading
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Table of contents Virus…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….3 What is a computer virus?………………………………………………………………………………………………3 Effects of Computer viruses……………………………………………………………………………………………3 How to avoid Computer viruses?......................................................................................3 Different kinds of viruses………………………………………………………………………………………………..4 Symptoms of infect…………………………………………………………………………………………………………6 What to do?.........................................
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