Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have become desensitized. Oral sex "might mean what a French kiss meant to us when we were kids," he says. Teens often shrug and say that oral sex never made anyone pregnant. Parents need to remind them, though, that it can transmit dread diseases, including HIV and the papilloma virus, against which even condoms offer little protection...
...fact, I ought to save a lot of people embarrassment right now by stating the following: there is no "Good Times" virus. Microsoft and AOL are not "teaming up" to conduct any kind of survey. The Postal Service is not about to charge 5[cents] for every e-mail. Deodorants do not cause breast cancer. M&M's will not give you free candy, nor will the Gap send you a free pair of jeans, nor will Honda drive a brand-new Civic to your front door if you pass on "their" messages...
...someone has your password, it's child's play for him to pass out, under your name, anything he wants. Sending a fake e-mail to elicit the necessary information is called password fishing, and Holderman is by no means the first to fall for it. Remember, the Melissa virus was first sent from an unsuspecting AOL user's account. And there is never any reason to give your AOL password to anyone. Not even Steve Case...
...elusive enzyme could finally offer a target at which drug designers could aim their medications, just as they currently use protease inhibitors to block the activity of the AIDS virus. That potential target is called beta-secretase. It had long been postulated to act as a chemical scissors that helps snip away pieces of excess protein protruding from brain cells, thereby creating the debris that gathers into the toxic plaques called amyloid. The accumulation of these fibrous clumps in the brain of Alzheimer's patients is the likeliest reason for their inexorable decline...
...HEPATITIS Here's a benefit from AIDS research that has little to do with the disease itself. A study finds that lamivudine, one of the three drugs in today's AIDS cocktails, is effective against hepatitis B. Both HIV and the hepatitis virus rely on similar enzymes to replicate, and lamivudine inhibits those enzymes. Taken once a day for a year, it restored normal blood counts and kept liver damage in check in about half the patients studied...