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Looking for answers to stop disastrous consequences of rumours emerging from social networking websites, a team of Indian security officials left for the US on Saturday to attend a conference called by Oracle on cyber security in San Francisco.

Outrageous postings and photographs, often morphed, on social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp has thrown up a new challenge for the Indian security establishment to how to stop them before they could damage the social fabric of the country.

Having the capability to spread like jungle fire, posting on sensitive issues keeps the security agencies on the tenterhooks.

In July-August 2012, Indian government found itself at sea to quell rumours of Muslims getting killed in Myanmar and Tibet by the Buddhists with morphed images going spiral on Facebook.

Recently, in Muzaffarnagar riots too, communal forces used fake video originated in Pakistan and used it to show two Hindu boys getting beaten by Muslims, to fuel tension.

The aim of the team consisting of senior level officials from the union home ministry, ministry of external affairs and Intelligence Bureau is to look for answers on how to filter and block outrageous posts on the social web sites and stop their circulation from spreading in time.

Our main challenge is how to get the real time data whenever such events occur on the social networking sites and to block it in time to contain the damage on the society at large. , an official, who is part of the team, said.

Besides, the Indian team would also seek cyber solutions to counter threat of hacking into secure government websites.

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New Delhi, Sep 22 (IANS) Indian social networking site Worldfloat has introduced a search engine that will help users access real-time news, information and images while networking.

Worldfloat.com founder Pushkar Mahatta said the new feature would help the company widen its user base. He said the new feature on India's homegrown social networking site would work like the search engines of global players like Google and Yahoo.

"The new search engine is one of its kind in India. No other site has the facility of social networking as well as search engine which sources news from all over the world on a real-time basis by automatic algorithms," Mahatta said.

Worldfloat.com, which was launched in June 2012, claims to have nearly 30 million users in 62 countries across the world. A substantial number of them are in India.

Mahatta said with the introduction of new features, Worldfloat has become unique in many ways as even the global players like Facebook don't have search engine facilities.

"Right now social networking and search engine are separate media. We want Worldfloat to be a bridge between social networking and searching the world," Mahatta told IANS.

Worldfloat would soon introduce "sharing" feature in the search engine by which users will be able to share news and information with other users and connect with people of common interest, Mahatta said.

"People interested in technology can meet with the other people interested in technology; similarly doctors can meet doctors, architects can meet architects from various cities of the world," he said.

Mahatta said the company's long-term plan is to create not just a search engine but a "social search engine" which will help connect people from all over the world with common interest.

"While Facebook is stuck with its graph search within its friend circle, Worldfloat is taking a far wider approach to connect people from all over the world with common interest," he said.

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The way mosquito control expert Anthony Texeira puts it his toolbox for fighting potentially deadly mosquitoes is empty. So everyone needs to be extra careful.

On Friday, Middleboro was declared at critical risk levels for Eastern equine encephalitis after a horse died from the virus. The state Department of Public Health ranks EEE at five levels: remote, low, moderate, high and critical when risk has been determined to be excessive.

The death of the horse was the first indication EEE was in Middleboro, but Texeira, who is superintendent of Plymouth County Mosquito Control, believes the virus has been in town all summer even though it didnt show up in any samples.

Its like fishing, he said. Just because you dont catch a fish, doesnt mean there arent any fish out there.

Texeira said now that Middleboro has reached critical status, neighboring towns such as Lakeville and Plympton should take notice and consider that they are at equal risk.

In past years, planes were contracted to be on standby to apply a pesticide when EEE reached the critical risk level. But thats not an option this late in the season and residents cant rely on ground spraying to knock down the killer mosquitoes either.

Spraying is done between dusk and dawn, and Texeira said now its too cold for either method to be effective because mosquitoes arent flying when its below 60 degrees.

This is that time of the year we dont have anything left in our toolbox to go after them, Texeira said.

And that leaves the responsibility for keeping safe up to the individual.

Middleboro Health Officer Jeanne C. Spalding advises all outside events end before the high risk-times between dusk to dawn when mosquitoes are more active.

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London, Sept 20 : Many of us are infected with a virus we'll never clear. While we're healthy, it's nothing to worry about, but when our immune system is suppressed it could kill us.

To catch the herpes virus human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) you must be exposed to someone who has it. This isn't difficult: it is carried by around 65% of the population.

Once in the body, HCMV persists for life owing to its clever ability to avoid our immune system and to go into hiding inside our cells in a latent state. Now, research is identifying changes in these cells that could lead to a new route to eradicating the virus.

"HCMV can be acquired very early in childhood, and the number of people infected gradually rises throughout life," said Professor John Sinclair, a molecular virologist in the Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge.

"The active virus can not only be passed from an infected mother to her child in breast milk but can easily be transferred from child to child in saliva - one child puts a toy in their mouth, then it's passed to another child who does the same, and the virus is passed on.

"It's also a sexually transmitted disease, so there's another increase in infections when people become sexually mature."

Once acquired, the virus goes into a latent state in the body. If it reactivates in healthy people, their immune responses prevent it from causing disease. But when the immune system is suppressed, active HCMV becomes dangerous.

It is a major cause of illness and death in organ and bone marrow transplant patients, who are given drugs to deliberately suppress their immune system and prevent their body rejecting the transplant. With an increasing demand for transplants in the UK, HCMV is set to become a growing problem.

"If it's not treated well, or it develops resistance to antiviral drugs, HCMV can lead to pneumonitis - inflammation of the lung tissue - and, in the most extreme case, it replicates all over the body and the patient ends up with multiple organ failure," said Dr Mark Wills, a viral immunologist working alongside Sinclair in the Department of Medicine.

"Tissue from donors carrying the virus often has to be used for transplants because there are so few donors and so many people carrying the virus," said Sinclair. "By transplanting bone marrow, or an organ from someone with the infection, you're giving the patient the virus and you're immune-suppressing them. That's the worst of both worlds."

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