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One of the most widely known and oft-recounted examples of viral marketing is Hotmail. Hotmail grew its subscriber base faster than any company in the history of the world ...faster than any new online, Internet, or print publication ever. How? By "hotlinking" a viral message to the bottom of every e-mail its subscribers sent that encouraged recipients to: "Sign up for your FREE Hotmail account."
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If you don't have a calculator, you can estimate the order of magnitude of a viral load expressed as a logarithmic number. From the logarithmic number, you take the first digit (to the left of the point ) and add 1 to this number. This gives you the number of digits that your viral load has (expresses as a plain number).
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The accumulated experience in vaccine development against HIV highlights the challenge in devising an immunogen that can mount a potent immune response against the continuously arising viral variants and the AIDS epidemic. Using geographically prevalent strains or consensus sequences have so far been the strategies for developing vaccines against antigenic variants of HIV-1 [26]. Lately, clinical trials have ... been initiated using combinations of HIV-1 candidate vaccines with the idea of combining the antigenic strength of each vaccine against different clades [27]. The outcome of such combo vaccines remains yet to be seen.
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Yes, viral gastroenteritis is contagious. The viruses that cause gastroenteritis are spread through close contact with infected persons (for example, by sharing food, water, or eating utensils). Individuals may ... become infected by eating or drinking contaminated foods or beverages.
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Infectious bursal disease is an acute, highly contagious viral disease of young chickens. It is most often found in highly concentrated poultry producing areas. It causes marked morbidity and mortality in affected flocks. Although the disease causes severe losses, its affect on reducing the bird's ability to develop immunity to other diseases may be the most serious effect produced by this disease.
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This year's prizes include viral commissions for Channel 4 (with budgets up to £2000), a year's subscription to Dazed, and PSPs and games. Short-listed and winning entries will ... be shown as part of the annual viral exhibition at London's ICA later this year.
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