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  2. SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant - Wikipedia

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    Omicron (B.1.1.529) is a variant of SARS-CoV-2 first reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) by the Network for Genomics Surveillance in South Africa on 24 November 2021. [10] [11] It was first detected in Botswana and has spread to become the predominant variant in circulation around the world. [12]

  3. 2021 Facebook outage - Wikipedia

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    CNBC reported that the outage was the worst experienced by Facebook since 2008. During the day of the outage, shares in the company dropped by nearly 5% and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's wealth fell by more than $6 billion. According to a report produced by Fortune and Snopes, Facebook lost at least $60 million in advertising revenue.

  4. Origin of COVID-19 - Wikipedia

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    In March 2023, an international team of virus experts from University of Arizona, Scripps Research Institute, and University of Sydney found genetic evidence that COVID-19 may have originated from the illegal trade of infected raccoon dogs in Wuhan, China, supporting the zoonotic transmission scenario.

  5. Facebook, Instagram users report widespread outage - AOL

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    March 5, 2024 at 11:22 AM. Chris Morris. Facebook did a face-plant Tuesday morning, as hundreds of thousands of users reported problems on Meta’s flagship social media platform, as well as ...

  6. WannaCry ransomware attack - Wikipedia

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    The WannaCry ransomware attack was a worldwide cyberattack in May 2017 by the WannaCry ransomware cryptoworm, which targeted computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system by encrypting data and demanding ransom payments in the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. [5] It propagated by using EternalBlue, an exploit developed by the United States ...

  7. COVID can cause new health problems to appear years after ...

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    A new report reinforces that the virus is not going away. ... “That’s the good news story,” says Al-Aly. The risk of death, meanwhile, became “insignificant” after the first year among ...

  8. International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses - Wikipedia

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    Website. talk .ictvonline .org. The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses ( ICTV) authorizes and organizes the taxonomic classification of and the nomenclature for viruses. [1] [2] [3] The ICTV develops a universal taxonomic scheme for viruses, and thus has the means to appropriately describe, name, and classify every virus taxon.

  9. Guillain-Barre syndrome 'more common than expected ... - AOL

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    An estimated 3,000 to 6,000 people develop Guillain-Barre syndrome in the U.S. each year — either after being infected by a virus or linked to a vaccination — and it’s more common in older ...