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OurDoom.

Publication: Arena Magazine
Publication Date: 01-FEB-04 		Format: Online - approximately 862 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: OurDoom.(editorial)(Editorial)

Article Excerpt
It has been good to see that the world is capable of acting collectively in the face of a threat from a virus capable of causing unprecedented harm and misery. Unfortunately, the virus in question is the MyDoom computer virus, a string of 1s and 0s--or on and off flashes, absences and presences--carried down phone lines to innumerable PCs. Simultaneously, an actual virus, bird flu, with a potential capacity to wreak untold havoc on what computer geeks call 'meatware' has bubbled beneath the surface of the news, occasionally making it to the front pages alongside dead cricketers and the half-time entertainment at the US Superbowl.

With epidemiologists experienced in handling the SARS outbreak warning that bird flu represents a much greater threat, you would think that a bit...

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