The 17-year-old is a former New England-ranked champion swimmer who was left paralysed in 2006 by a virus which affected her spinal cord and also left her in a vegetative state for two years.
The virus, which affects computers using Microsoft's Windows operating system, arrives as a reply when a user sends an e-mail to an infected computer.
The laboratory is currently a Biosafety Level 3 facility for the study of diseases including foot-and-mouth virus, which affects only animals.
[11] According to WHO, the virus, which affects mostly children, costs the lives of some 630,000 people a year, "most of them children under five living in Africa".
One of the most common viruses is cucumber mosaic virus, which affects herbaceous perennials as well as cucumbers.
The patients have been isolated and are being examined for the virus, which affects the respiratory system.
Though it sickens many times more people than West Nile virus, which affects much of the country, including the Northeast, it has received only a small fraction of the funding for research.
The foot-and-mouth crisis showed no signs of abating in Britain, as animals on dozens more farms across the country were afflicted with the highly contagious virus, which affects cloven-hooved animals.
While deaths from rabies in humans are rare, the virus, which affects the central nervous system, is invariable fatal to those who do not seek treatment before symptoms appear.
But the winner in the event's first half was a flu virus which affected several grandmasters and encouraged a minimalist, cautious approach.
