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Suspicions that bird flu has reached Europe have not yet been confirmed. This message came from Hamburg, where the Institute of Tropical Medicine is located. It was here that two women were brought with symptoms similar to the bird flu virus. One of them returned from Thailand last Saturday. The final answer to the question of whether patients are sick with bird flu can be obtained on the basis of molecular research. The results will be known this week.
Microsoft is preparing to defend itself. In the coming hours, it may have to fend off one of the worst hacker attacks on its website. The hackers spreading the MayDum virus - the name can be translated as "My downfall" or "My apocalypse" - themselves warned Microsoft about this. On Monday, MayDum disabled the website of another software manufacturer, S.C.O. Both SCC and Microsoft independently offered a $250,000 reward for identifying the authors of the virus.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced the government's intention to conduct an independent review of intelligence received before the start of the war in Iraq. We are talking about information that related to the presence of Iraqi stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. The day before, US President George W. Bush agreed to establish an independent commission to investigate the activities of his intelligence services - on the same issue. Pressure on the White House increased significantly after the outgoing head of US inspectors in Iraq, David Kaye, said that, apparently, Iraq did not possess weapons of mass destruction.