This article is about language use in the Short Message Service (SMS) component of phone, mobile communication systems, and to a lesser extent, web. For language use specific to the Internet, see Internet slang.his article is about language use in the Short Message Service (SMS) component of phone, mobile communication systems, and to a lesser extent, web. For language use specific to the Internet, see Internet slang.
A total of 4,951 people have died from the Ebola virus and there have been 13,567 cases in eight countries since the outbreak began, the WHO said in a statement Friday. The figures are current up to October 29.
In the United States, about 2% of people have hepatitis C, with the number of new cases per year stabilized at 17,000 since 2007. The number of deaths from hepatitis C has increased to 15,800 in 2008 and by 2007 had overtaken HIV/AIDS as a cause of death in the USA.