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  • The virus mutated, so that this year's flu shot won't protect against it.
  • Antibiotics don't work against viruses.
  • essentially reprogramming the cell so it reproduces the virus instead of itself.   (source)
  • She'd picked up a virus, and Evra had to stay in to look after her.   (source)
    virus = a submicroscopic organism that causes disease
  • I was driving, and Daisy was talking about how her most recent fic had sort of gone viral in the Star Wars fan-fiction world and how she had tons of kudos on it and how she'd had to stay up all night to finish this paper on The Scarlet Letter and how she could maybe finally get some sleep now that she was "retiring" from Chuck E. Cheese's, and I felt fine.†   (source)
  • The mesh network had gone viral.†   (source)
  • Lizards carried viral diseases, including several that could be transmitted to man.†   (source)
  • You've become a viral bomb.†   (source)
  • "Viral Contagion Threat," Brenda answered before Thomas could ask her.†   (source)
  • Viral brain videos?†   (source)
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  • Basically at some point in your past you probably had a viral infection that weakened your heart.†   (source)
  • Death adapts, like a viral agent.†   (source)
  • Father Mulligan had died four years ago of viral hepatitis, in an ashram north of Rishikesh.†   (source)
  • She got in touch after the video went viral.†   (source)
  • Zanmi Lasante doesn't have the wherewithal to measure viral loads and cd4 counts, but from long experience Farmer knows the virus is about to begin its endgame with Ti Ofa, its overwhelming stage.†   (source)
  • Frankly, I think all we're passing along is some viral crud.†   (source)
  • As Ebola sweeps through you, your immune system fails, and you seem to lose your ability to respond to viral attack.†   (source)
  • Jaap Goudsmit, Viral Sex: The Nature of AIDS (New York: Oxford Press, 1997), pp. 15-37.†   (source)
  • That's because semen has a higher viral load than vaginal secretions do, and because women have more mucous membranes exposed during sex than men.†   (source)
  • "It's like an old-fashioned viral.†   (source)
  • Her coma was caused by a severe case of viral meningitis.†   (source)
  • Viral hepatitis.†   (source)
  • Collateral Damage came out two years ago, and within a month of its release, the single "Animate" had broken onto the national charts and gone viral.†   (source)
  • Well, that shell we call a virus is able to attach to a cell wall and squirt its viral DNA inside.†   (source)
  • Eventually a neurologist told me that a strain of flu that winter had left many people with viral meningitis.†   (source)
  • "I don't know, but the fact that her temperature is fluctuating indicates that it's not flu or any other viral infection.†   (source)
  • Once the video of Trish begging the woman at the ticket counter to give her the last seat on the flight to Albany even though she was not a member of the frequent flyer program went viral, the airline decided not to press charges after all.†   (source)
  • Done in by some viral villain, sent straight to the fiery pits, shackled by my silence, sentenced to spend eternity locked in a hot red chamber, no way to claim innocence and avoid an eternal dance with the devil.†   (source)
  • It had been quiet and viral.†   (source)
  • A murmur spread virally through the courtroom, something that always happened in the wake of hearing that not-guilty plea, and that always seemed ridiculous to Alex-what was the defendant supposed to do?†   (source)
  • It seems that Asherah was a carrier of a viral infection.†   (source)
  • X-ray, Microscopic, immunological RTX for viral, parasitic, bacterial disease.†   (source)
  • I keep it around for pay-for-view, mostly, or making viral brain videos—".†   (source)
  • People are just sharing it now—it's going viral by itself.†   (source)
  • Please move to the viral testing station.†   (source)
  • Holding her while she barfed up the black, viral stew her stomach had become.†   (source)
  • Does every viral idea have a biological virus counterpart?†   (source)
  • We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas.†   (source)
  • Which means we can't be quite sure what his recent viral count was.†   (source)
  • A different kind of viral plague: uncertainty, fear, panic.†   (source)
  • I figured our attempted getaway would go viral on the Dwarven Internet, famous among Internets.†   (source)
  • Everyone else thinks I had a mild case of viral meningitis.†   (source)
  • They take over the host and turn it into a factory for more viral shells, which repeat the process.†   (source)
  • Scientists knew they had to keep their cultures free from bacterial and viral contamination, and they knew it was possible for cells to contaminate one another if they got mixed up in culture.†   (source)
  • It is my medical opinion that in Hawaii you had an episode of myocarditis triggered by a viral infection.†   (source)
  • At that point, the ATCC's collection had grown to dozens of different types of cells, all guaranteed to be free from viral and bacterial contamination, and tested to ensure that they hadn't been contaminated with cells from another species.†   (source)
  • By learning how to recognize yourself and others as Viral Contagion Threats (VCTs) you will take the first step in the battle against the Flare.†   (source)
  • "Some hackers in the East Village figured out a way to upload the mesh software wirelessly, and it's really gone viral now.†   (source)
  • Before lunchtime, the lab had its answer: the lizard blood showed no significant reactivity to any viral or bacterial antigen.†   (source)
  • Some type of security force patrolled every street in great numbers—there were hundreds of them, all wearing red shirts and gas masks, a weapon in one hand and in the other a smaller version of the viral testing device Thomas and his friends had looked into before entering the city.†   (source)
  • It was a month before they confirmed that the radar reports were artifacts from a viral infection of the air force radar computer systems at McChord Field.†   (source)
  • Initially the committee could only test samples for viral and bacterial contamination, but soon a few of its members developed a test for cross-species contamination, so they could determine whether cultures labeled as being from one animal type were actually from another.†   (source)
  • Juanita just told me that Christianity was hijacked by viral influences when it was only fifty days old.†   (source)
  • Another attempt was made by Jesus-that one was hijacked by viral influences within fifty days of his death.†   (source)
  • As such, in Lagos's view, it was much less susceptible to viral infection because it was based on fixed, written records.†   (source)
  • He realized that in order for the human race to advance, they had to be delivered from the grip of this viral civilization.†   (source)
  • Now, religion used to be essentially viral-a piece of information that replicated inside the human mind, jumping from one person to the next.†   (source)
  • I would guess that it also tends to encourage irrational behavior, maybe lowers the victim's defenses to viral ideas, makes them sexually promiscuous, perhaps all of the above.†   (source)
  • A viral idea can be stamped out-as happened with Nazism, bell bottoms, and Bart Simpson T-shirts—but Asherah, because it has a biological aspect, can remain latent in the human body.†   (source)
  • "With reference to viral infections," the Librarian says, "if I may make a fairly blunt? spontaneous cross-reference—something lam coded to do at opportune moments-you may wish to examine herpes simplex, a virus that takes up residence in the nervous system and never leaves.†   (source)
  • Naturally, anyone who believes that will not dare to alter the text in any wayl Ideas such as these were so effective in preventing the spread of Asherah that, eventually, every square inch of the territory where the viral cult had once thrived-from India to Spain-was under the sway of Islam, Christianity, or Judaism "But because of its latency-coiled about the brainstem of those it infects, passed from one generation to the next-it always finds ways to resurface.†   (source)
  • It was a viral outbreak.†   (source)
  • News about a highly virulent outbreak of a mutated viral vaccine, dubbed the Raison Strain, on a small island south of Java had hit the wires yesterday morning, and the wires were burning hot.†   (source)
  • Protection against the spurt of blood or pus and the viral entities hidden within, submicroscopic parasites in their soviet socialist protein coats.†   (source)
  • My Blooper Video Goes Viral   (source)
  • Viral symptomatology permitted to pass.†   (source)
  • And your viral load's undetectable.†   (source)
  • Viral plague …†   (source)
  • In his smoothest Texas voice, C. J. Peters said, "It's a rather rare viral disease that has been responsible for human fatalities in outbreaks in Zaire and Sudan within the past ten or twelve years."†   (source)
  • The squirted DNA makes its way into the DNA of the host cell, in this case a liver cell, so that the host cell will be forced to make more viral shells as well as pieces of identical viral DNA.†   (source)
  • No. Have you had any recent viral infection, including poliomyelitis, hepatitis, mononucleosis, mumps, measles, varicella, or herpes?†   (source)
  • There was a camp that attributed its onset to myocarditis and other viral infections during infancy; and another that claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene.†   (source)
  • He has a reputation for being a top-notch field epidemiologist (a person who studies viral diseases in the wild), but for some reason he does not often get around to publishing his work.†   (source)
  • "There are a number of reasons that an advanced AIDS patient with a particularly low CD4 count and high viral load might suddenly appear to get better," Dr. Perego said.†   (source)
  • His 1958 paper on linear viral transformations opened broad new lines of scientific inquiry, particularly among the Pasteur Institute group in Paris, which subsequently won the Nobel Prize in 1966.†   (source)
  • Subsections bacterial, viral, parasitic, other. d) pharmacology, with material for dose-relation and receptor site specificity studies of known compounds.†   (source)
  • When he had joined the Wildfire team, he had undergone immunizations for everything imaginable, even plague and cholera, which had to be renewed every six months, and gamma-globulin shots for viral infection.†   (source)
  • I've. got so much antiviral medicine in my system that nothing could get through.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "anti-" in antiviral means against or opposite. This is the same pattern you see in words like antibacterial, antiaircraft, and antisocial.
  • It was soon recognized that the drug was a broad-spectrum antiviral agent.†   (source)
  • THEY TAKE ME to a quarantined floor at the base hospital reserved for plague victims, nicknamed the Zombie Ward, where I get an armful of morphine and a powerful cocktail of antiviral drugs.†   (source)
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  • At least, the antivirus programme didn't react."†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "anti-" in antivirus means against or opposite. This is the same pattern you see in words like antibacterial, antiaircraft, and antisocial.
  • There is only one antivirus, and I control it.†   (source)
  • You can't create an antivirus with all this computing power?†   (source)
  • If we control even one component of the antivirus, we will have a bargaining chip.†   (source)
  • The chances offinding an antivirus in time are too low.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, we don't have the antivirus quite yet either.†   (source)
  • The distribution of the antivirus was one of the most complex elements of the entire plan.†   (source)
  • What good is the virus to them, if you have the antivirus?†   (source)
  • Without an antivirus any survival would be impossible.†   (source)
  • Unless we find a way to get the antivirus that already exists into our hands.†   (source)
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  • But if you have an antivirus, a cure or a vaccine to the virus, you can "Control it," Kara finished.†   (source)
  • But without an antivirus to distribute through the blood, it was use-less.†   (source)
  • How do we know that they actually have an antivirus?†   (source)
  • Does Fortier plan on giving us an antivirus that works?†   (source)
  • The trick will be to find the antivirus with them.†   (source)
  • We need to stop Svensson, and we need an antivirus within a couple of weeks.†   (source)
  • She'd been working on the antivirus to the Raison Strain.†   (source)
  • What I need now is the antivirus, or an anti-dote.†   (source)
  • They're undoubtedly using her now to create the antivirus.†   (source)
  • I trust you would like to help us create that antivirus.†   (source)
  • How did they get an antivirus in under a week?†   (source)
  • They know we have no intention of delivering the antivirus, and they have nothing to lose.†   (source)
  • Without the antivirus, you have nothing.†   (source)
  • And I take it this psychic has told you that the United Sates won't receive the antivirus in time.†   (source)
  • Something in my red blood cells is acting like an antivirus.†   (source)
  • He hasn't heard about the antivirus that we have, so he thinks it's safe to kill me.†   (source)
  • You think my father isn't already working on an antivirus?†   (source)
  • But the antivirus was on its way, Mike Orear insisted.†   (source)
  • Once he does his damage, our only hope will ride with an antivirus and a vaccine.†   (source)
  • Our best shot at the antivirus is to make Carlos dream with me.†   (source)
  • If it takes us months to create a vaccine or an antivirus, how is it they have one?†   (source)
  • Imagine the possibilities for the man who con-trolled the antivirus.†   (source)
  • I take it our scientists aren't as close to creating an antivirus as we ve been led to believe.†   (source)
  • Svensson may not have the antivirus yet, but with her help, he will.†   (source)
  • I know that the Swiss will have the antivirus if he doesn't already.†   (source)
  • With or without an antivirus, the clock starts ticking in fourteen hours.†   (source)
  • You're sure that you can't get your hands on the antivirus?†   (source)
  • There's only one way to deal with the virus, and that is to find an antivirus.†   (source)
  • "Then what, an antivirus?" the man demanded.†   (source)
  • To show the Frenchman their military teeth and then beg for an antivirus was simply unacceptable.†   (source)
  • Our play was based on the hope that they would turn over the antivirus, true enough.†   (source)
  • But he'd also learned about the antivirus.†   (source)
  • Had Thomas learned something about the antivirus from his dreams?†   (source)
  • The only hope for an antivirus rests with me.†   (source)
  • They plan to give out the antivirus selectively, regardless of any promise to the contrary.†   (source)
  • There s always the possibility that they will find an antivirus in time.†   (source)
  • Besides that, they have no guarantee that an attack would secure the antivirus.†   (source)
  • Don't kill him-we have to protect the antivirus.†   (source)
  • Nothing says he has to wait until he has the antivirus before releasing the virus.†   (source)
  • At least we know that the antivirus now exists, and I'm in the vicinity of the people who have it.†   (source)
  • We will give them the antivirus, Fortier repeated.†   (source)
  • Not if we can find them and the antivirus in the next three weeks.†   (source)
  • At this very moment we have a man on the inside closing in on the antivirus.†   (source)
  • She is your key to securing the antivirus.†   (source)
  • Until the antivirus was widely distributed, Svensson might be the more powerful of the pair.†   (source)
  • What kind of antivirus will be needed then?†   (source)
  • That's the killer here: an antivirus that already exists could end all of this in two days.†   (source)
  • Something with the people he plans to give the antivirus to.†   (source)
  • But you don't remember anything more about the antivirus," Grant pressed.†   (source)
  • I doubt Svensson has any plans of giving the Israelis the antivirus, regardless of what they do.†   (source)
  • Hope for an antivirus was evaporating as the rash spread.†   (source)
  • That depends on the nature of the antivirus, but you do under-stand that people will die.†   (source)
  • You think it'll bring us one minute closer to an antivirus or a vaccine?†   (source)
  • He knew about the virus, he knew about the antivirus, now he knows where we are.†   (source)
  • If Svensson was killed, the antivirus would die with him.†   (source)
  • In time to reach France and take the antivirus before it was too te.†   (source)
  • They claim they have incontrovertible evidence that Svensson has an antivirus in his possession.†   (source)
  • Then isolate the scientists who are working on the antivirus.†   (source)
  • The exchange, yes, but the antivirus you receive won't be effective.†   (source)
  • The antivirus won't be held up in a vial in our parliament for all the world to see.†   (source)
  • The United States must have the antivirus.†   (source)
  • I thought you said we couldn't risk compromising the antivirus.†   (source)
  • But I'm happy to announce the formulation of the first antivirus.†   (source)
  • When would the antivirus actually be released to the chosen few?†   (source)
  • You mean turn the collected blood into an antivirus.†   (source)
  • The French aren't going to give us the antivirus, he said.†   (source)
  • So there's a chance we may find Svensson with the antivirus.†   (source)
  • The only two who've already taken the antivirus.†   (source)
  • But Thomas had insisted that the United States would not receive the antivirus.†   (source)
  • Unraveling an antivirus may take more time than we have.†   (source)
  • America was holding its collective breath for an antivirus that would not work.†   (source)
  • And I know from a very reliable source that they were after more than the antivirus.†   (source)
  • The French intend to offer the antivirus to Israel in an open-sea exchange five days from now.†   (source)
  • But please, these guys have the antivirus-we can't just send a tomahawk cruise missile after them.†   (source)
  • He knew the chances of Fortier coming through with the antivirus were next to nil.†   (source)
  • It doesn't matter who they give the antivirus to; our scientists can copy it from any carrier.†   (source)
  • If the president starts a war, we don't have a chance of finding the antivirus, plain and simple.†   (source)
  • And I'm almost certain that Fortier has no intention of giving you an antivirus that works.†   (source)
  • Within a matter of days, every resident of North America would have the antivirus.†   (source)
  • The effects of the antivirus in your blood have been dyed white so that we can see them.†   (source)
  • In most cases, those who ingested the antivirus would do so without knowing they had.†   (source)
  • Im sure you're eager to complete our arrangements for the antivirus.†   (source)
  • According to Monique, they had those five days to acquire an antivirus.†   (source)
  • Above all, the antivirus.†   (source)
  • The antivirus?†   (source)
  • He has the antivirus.†   (source)
  • The most obvious solution to the entire mess was to recall the antivirus Teeleh had given Tom in his dreams.†   (source)
  • He's also the source of the antivirus.†   (source)
  • You still can't remember the antivirus.†   (source)
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  • Sore throats this severe were usually caused by strep bacteria or the mono virus, she said.†   (source)
  • This was no virus Max was suffering from, so they carried it up and replaced the sheet.†   (source)
  • It turns out we were hit by a virus that wiped out the entire district server.†   (source)
  • "On CNN they're saying it's a virus or something."†   (source)
  • The morgue acquiesced, and by Saturday afternoon we found out that he had died from acute epiglottitis, a rare but treatable virus that causes the epiglottis to swell and cover the air passages to the lungs.†   (source)
  • Our tribes got much bigger, and we spread across the entire planet like an unstoppable virus.†   (source)
  • About a lot of things, with no answers—all of it laced with an unspoken fear of the virus they'd supposedly been given.†   (source)
  • "Mum thinks you've got Ebola virus.†   (source)
  • But do you have any concerns about stomach viruses?†   (source)
  • And in the dream nearly everyone on the earth is dead, because they have caught a virus.†   (source)
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  • They are sickly and fragile and vulnerable to viruses.†   (source)
  • The vaccine consisted of live rabies virus, genetically modified to be nonvirulent.†   (source)
  • They're delivering vials of some mutated virus there—it shouldn't take all night.†   (source)
  • They've been touched with the same virus.†   (source)
  • It feeds on itself like a virus.†   (source)
  • They got sick, and then suddenly the virus let go.†   (source)
  • Some virus.†   (source)
  • " 'Doctors were at first baffled by the disease, which they report is extremely rare and generally attacks children between the ages of ten and twenty, months to years after they have contracted the measles virus,' " read my father.†   (source)
  • Trees burst forth from broken windows and skins of scabrous vine gnawed at the walls like antibodies attacking a virus—as if nature itself had waged war against it—but the house seemed unkillable, resolutely upright despite the wrongness of its angles and the jagged teeth of sky visible through sections of collapsed roof.†   (source)
  • Do you think it could have a virus?†   (source)
  • Can you believe they even gave her that AID virus and injected her into monkeys?†   (source)
  • Or maybe I'm coming down with a stomach virus.†   (source)
  • Never in my life except when I had a stomach virus had I gone so long without food.†   (source)
  • Blamed on bad shellfish, elusive viruses, or an overlooked weakness in the aorta.†   (source)
  • As a result, the poor man has become a plague virus.†   (source)
  • A virus that feeds on alcohol, mixed with a growth reagent.†   (source)
  • "That's right," she says, and hope spreads through me like a virus.†   (source)
  • Back into my cells to lurk like a virus waiting for the next opportunity?†   (source)
  • Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology and strange new viruses.†   (source)
  • Even through the disorientation of fugue state, he now remembered the painful therapy sessions, the long hours in the RNA virus baths, and the surgery.†   (source)
  • The fair was a "contagion," a "virus," a form of "progressive cerebral meningitis."†   (source)
  • It was when it showed up, and even now this virus that can mutate in infinite ways to thwart nearly any treatment eludes our efforts to corral it.†   (source)
  • Finally, it was rumored, there would be complete information-sharing among all of these previously disconnected and even adversarial entities, and when they were coordinated, and once all the health data they'd collected was shared, most of this made possible through the Circle and more important, TruYou, viruses could be stopped at their sources, diseases would be tracked to their roots.†   (source)
  • Swallowed a VC virus or something.†   (source)
  • -The Amencan I-Ientizge Dictionary virus…… [L. virus slimy liquid, poison, offensive odour or taste.†   (source)
  • A virus that carries the gene to produce Shiga toxins is now infecting previously harmless strains of E. coli.†   (source)
  • But I have a feeling it's not much protection against the intelligence and adaptability of the modern virus.†   (source)
  • I wasn't supposed to go near Tom's computer, because he was worried I would delete something important by mistake, or click on something I shouldn't and let in a virus or a Trojan or something.†   (source)
  • Stomach viruses were rare on Phoenix, and anyone who seemed vaguely contagious was required to spend the duration of their illness in quarantine.†   (source)
  • Dr. John M. Freeman, the director of pediatric neurology at Hopkins, has said, "We're not even sure whether it's caused by a virus, although it leaves footprints like a virus."†   (source)
  • It was at that moment we realized we'd been banking on a really nasty virus.†   (source)
  • It was actually physical, not unlike a stomach virus.†   (source)
  • You loathsome data virus!†   (source)
  • No flu, no virus, no hay fever.†   (source)
  • Dr. Virus laughed, and briefly I saw the family doctor inside this toughened revolutionary.†   (source)
  • They won't eradicate HIV from his body, Farmer explains, but they will take away his symptoms and, if he's lucky, let him live for many years as if he'd never caught the virus.†   (source)
  • I was the weakest and the virus raged through my body for almost three weeks.†   (source)
  • "—doing some genetic analysis, which is fine, but before, we were developing a way to make the memory compound behave as a virus," he says.†   (source)
  • He fussed over her as if she had mono or cancer, not just a virus, which is what she'd told him when he called her on his cell from school that morning.†   (source)
  • The little girl, victim of nothing more serious than a low-grade virus, had thrown up what her mother had first believed to be a huge amount of blood.†   (source)
  • Viruses are named for the place where they are first discovered.†   (source)
  • But they have been infected by the dreaded Lousepedoodle, that flies in ever decreasing circles through the Gunpat of the Cludge—a deadly virus—dear me, yes!†   (source)
  • Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.†   (source)
  • Rogers has the virus that's been going around.†   (source)
  • One of the challenges in curbing the virus is a suspicion of condoms held by many conservatives.†   (source)
  • Our first weeks at the academy weren't made any easier when a vicious virus swept through the school.†   (source)
  • And she believes that toxic injection of live bovine virus marked the beginning of Christa's brain dysfunction.†   (source)
  • At Farragut they got their heads shaved, saw their first mountains, came down with a virus called "cat fever," stayed very cold most of the time, drilled in rowboats on a frigid lake, eight guys to a side, and started to imagine the good life on board a ship.†   (source)
  • Evra had warned me not to sleep in his tent that night; his snake was in a foul mood because of the virus and might bite.†   (source)
  • Emily made a point of not looking at me, while Savannah stepped around Lena like she was infected with some kind of airborne virus.†   (source)
  • It's for fisting," Kim said, and told him how homosexuals sometimes use their fist for anal sex and that it can transmit the HIV virus.†   (source)
  • How can you doubt that I'd be your friend no matter what, despite some stupid vampire virus that you knew nothing about at the time?"†   (source)
  • Madam, we see no end of silent cirrhosis and even liver cancer from this virus.†   (source)
  • "It'll work a little like a virus, in that it'll access other addresses through people's e-mail programs, but it won't cause any damage."†   (source)
  • The company was best known for its handling of deadly viruses in the process of creating vaccines.†   (source)
  • A flu virus halted the streak.†   (source)
  • Like most scientists, I believe that involuntary laws of nature explain the behavior of planets, tectonic plates, weather systems, and viruses.†   (source)
  • It's like a virus that sneaks around the system, pops out when your resistance is low.†   (source)
  • I went to a "sing," where people gathered to drum and sing under the biggest sky I had ever seen, not so some tourists could take pictures, but because a hanta virus was killing them.†   (source)
  • They were infected with a rotten virus called unaccountability, and more than a few millionaires were made in the ubiquitous Command Saigon.†   (source)
  • Salander and Plague thereafter had the opportunity, if not to hack into, at least to devastatingly disrupt the police intranet with viruses of various types—an activity in which neither of them had the slightest interest.†   (source)
  • Oh no, he thought, a virus.†   (source)
  • The company even undertook to carry samples of highly contagious bacteria and viruses between cooperating research laboratories in both the public and the military sectors.†   (source)
  • No archenemies out there in space who could come to your aid, no viruses that will wipe us out and leave you standing.†   (source)
  • It started on Thursday when I came down with the H1N1 virus, which at the time everyone was calling "swine flu."†   (source)
  • Make it to the bedroom, he urged himself, undress, curl into cool sheets, tell him I came home sick, must be a virus, twenty-four hour flu, and keep my face hidden.†   (source)
  • Any virus will be dead.†   (source)
  • She'd write a note tomorrow about having a twenty-four-hour virus.†   (source)
  • Germs and viruses and bacteria excite him.†   (source)
  • You dig it up here and it jumps up over there, doubling and tripling and spreading like a virus.†   (source)
  • Is a virus self-aware?†   (source)
  • The tip of the plunger—a ball that meets a conical housing to create a seal—has to be machined to a tolerance of a quarter micron, or 10 millionths of an inch, about the size of a virus.†   (source)
  • John Luke was hospitalized with RSV (respiratory syncytial virus, which causes respiratory tract infections) when he was three months old and it seemed to damage his lungs, so we spent a lot of time at the doctor's office with wheezing, bronchitis, and pneumonia, but other than that, he was an easy, fun kid to raise.†   (source)
  • The chips are more like viruses than computers.†   (source)
  • The latent rabies virus flared up among the starving foxes, and the wolves began to contract the disease too.†   (source)
  • I thought maybe it was some kind of serious virus or flu.†   (source)
  • Radiation's not a germ or a virus.†   (source)
  • The virus must have entered his bloodstream: or else he was merely approaching second childhood more quickly than he had supposed.†   (source)
  • From "Merck" I can assume I am suffering from a case of "severe acute glossitis," an inflamed condition of the tongue's surface which is of traumatic origin but doubtless aggravated by bacteria, viruses and all sorts of toxicity resulting from five or six hours of salivary exchange unprecedented in the history of my mouth and I daresay anyone's.†   (source)
  • When the virus of restlessness begins to take possession of a wayward man, and the road away from Here seems broad and straight and sweet, the victim must first find in himself a good and sufficient reason for going.†   (source)
  • The virus of Potomac Fever, which rages everywhere in Washington, breeds nowhere in more virulent form than on the Senate floor.†   (source)
  • Died of unknown virus.†   (source)
  • The Flare virus lives in every part of your body, yet it has no effect on you, nor will it ever.†   (source)
  • She figured it was a virus, or perhaps allergies to a particular mold in the building.†   (source)
  • Jimmy pondered this; then he asked if anyone else had caught the virus.†   (source)
  • "I don't know, what's the proper reaction when a deadly virus is announced?"†   (source)
  • Half of the vials on the shelf are labeled with the three-lined X: T. Filoviridae Virus Mutations.†   (source)
  • Booby traps and land mines and gangrene and shock and polio from a VC virus.†   (source)
  • "I'm afraid we gave her a stomach virus," Reynie interjected.†   (source)
  • You mean your cybrid was incapacitated while the virus destroyed you?†   (source)
  • "It's like a virus, an infection, passing from one person to another.†   (source)
  • They're hated for their immunity to the terrible virus, are mockingly called Munies.†   (source)
  • As soon as I see him, the stomach virus/hot flashes/butterflies return.†   (source)
  • "But in your mother's case, the mistake was caused by HPV, the genital warts virus.†   (source)
  • Even worse, the virus had been modified.†   (source)
  • Like the outbreak of some new killer virus, or another major city vanishing in a mushroom cloud.†   (source)
  • The virus that was eating me has been replaced by a different disease that's even more hungry.†   (source)
  • If there's not a lot of activity, the virus weakens."†   (source)
  • The virus had progressed to AIDS in 1,003 of those people, and 653 had died.†   (source)
  • At the moment I am here as a birthday virus.†   (source)
  • Believing fundamentally in the right of a plant or a virus to rule the earth.†   (source)
  • As far as I know, there's no way to stop the binary virus.†   (source)
  • Keeps the Flare at bay because the virus thrives in your brain.†   (source)
  • So you couldn't have contracted this virus naturally?†   (source)
  • Its name was JUVE, Jetspeed Ultra Virus Extraordinary.†   (source)
  • That virus hit all the major population centers and spread rapidly.†   (source)
  • They pump that virus into the slum sectors through a system of underground pipes.†   (source)
  • You start spitting up little drops of virus-laden blood.†   (source)
  • Assume that the nam-shub of Enki really functioned as a virus.†   (source)
  • See how they work within the confines of the virus that's inside you.†   (source)
  • The AVE killer virus has broken out in Fiji, spared until now.†   (source)
  • To see the results of their mutated plague virus?†   (source)
  • The virus takes up residence in your lungs.†   (source)
  • Whoever… whatever… attacked me used a type of weapon known in the Core as an AIDS II virus.†   (source)
  • Was Y.T. also afraid of catching this virus?†   (source)
  • Hopefully the majority of us do not have the virus yet, but it's inevitable in this crumbling world.†   (source)
  • One of these days, a virus will get out of hand, and no vaccine or cure will be able to stop it.†   (source)
  • Like the virus that needed us also hated us and couldn't wait to get rid of us.†   (source)
  • But according to what you just quoted me, the Torah is like a virus.†   (source)
  • They'd given the virus a name, to make it seem more manageable.†   (source)
  • The rest of the people in the shop had freaked out knowing the virus was so close.†   (source)
  • That concentrates the population, creating the perfect breeding ground for the virus.†   (source)
  • Maybe this virus is less dangerous and he'll recover on his own."†   (source)
  • If they'd known what a virus was, they probably would have thought the same thing.†   (source)
  • And when you explode, you blast everyone around you with the virus.†   (source)
  • And that Enki invented this virus and spread it throughout Sumer, using tablets like this one?†   (source)
  • The virus is generally fatal, and can be spread through the air.†   (source)
  • Like rats fleeing a sinking ship, the virus erupts out of every opening.†   (source)
  • The world has no chance—the virus is too strong.†   (source)
  • But I guess he found an old virus or something that was aimed at the elite thinkers.†   (source)
  • Each me was a sort of virus, kicked out by the metavirus principle.†   (source)
  • You couldn't invent a more efficient delivery system for a virus that has a 97 percent kill rate.†   (source)
  • "The whole city is cull of idiots thinking they've been containing the virus.†   (source)
  • We did our best to keep the virus from you as long as we could.†   (source)
  • This Snow Crash thing-is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?†   (source)
  • Everyone here is healthy and virus-free, but there are many who still don't take kindly to Immunes."†   (source)
  • They want to know whether she believes Y.T.'s virus story.†   (source)
  • It's where the virus settles and takes hold.†   (source)
  • Theories Lagos tried to apply to his virus hypothesis.†   (source)
  • virus slimy liquid, poison, offensive odour or taste.]†   (source)
  • The Flare does nothing to them—they don't even transmit the virus.†   (source)
  • He felt that the nam-shub of Enki was a neurolinguistic virus.†   (source)
  • Now you are talking about a biological virus again.†   (source)
  • Does every viral idea have a biological virus counterpart?†   (source)
  • He said it had certain things in common with a virus, but that it was different.†   (source)
  • She was afraid—this is so ridiculous-she was afraid I was going to catch a virus from it.†   (source)
  • So did Lagos think that the Asherah virus actually altered the DNA of brain cells?†   (source)
  • In binary form, a virus can bounce around the universe at the speed of light.†   (source)
  • The virus had been released exactly as Thomas had predicted just last evening.†   (source)
  • It killed the virus of polio, rabies, leukemia, and the common wart.†   (source)
  • They fed on infected bodies, then spread the virus to new feeding grounds.†   (source)
  • Here in the Wall many people believed the government was spreading the virus, our government.†   (source)
  • He wondered how much they knew about the virus.†   (source)
  • Therefore it is not a gas or molecule, or even a large protein or virus.†   (source)
  • Of course not, the answer was no, because if the virus was real, they were all dead anyway.†   (source)
  • AIDS is a tiny germ or a virus that can live inside a living cell.†   (source)
  • Well, that shell we call a virus is able to attach to a cell wall and squirt its viral DNA inside.†   (source)
  • The thought that a virus might be slinking its way through his system …. it was unbearable.†   (source)
  • The doctors kept us away from the rest of the team because the virus was so contagious.†   (source)
  • When the white blood cells reproduce to fight infection, the virus reproduces, too.†   (source)
  • Our initial estimations of the virus's latency period were only that, estimates.†   (source)
  • There's no way you can steal four virus devices while I have you at gunpoint.†   (source)
  • There's the perennial threat of virus of course.†   (source)
  • He could have transmitted the virus to his wife and offspring.†   (source)
  • In anyone else with acute hepatitis B, a liver transplant would simply feed the virus.†   (source)
  • We can make a virus that makes most people sick but only kills one selected person.†   (source)
  • Any of them might be carrying the virus, or none of them.†   (source)
  • That cell turns into a major virus factory, churning out copies of the HIV invader.†   (source)
  • There is a virus loaded to eliminate a host of genetic disorders including color blindness.†   (source)
  • The virus has started to flex its muscles— you do realize that.†   (source)
  • Whatever it was that transmitted the disease, it was larger than a virus.†   (source)
  • It made sense: anyone who risked unleashing a virus had to have protection for themselves.†   (source)
  • The rabies-virus particle is shaped like a bullet.†   (source)
  • The Stickiness Factor SESAME STREET, BLUE'S CLUES, AND THE EDUCATIONAL VIRUS.†   (source)
  • He was far more likely to swear or go off on a tangent about Hanta virus and government conspiracy.†   (source)
  • If a virus presented itself in South Africa, they needed to be in South Africa.†   (source)
  • In less than two days those planes will probably drop the memory serum virus over the experiments.†   (source)
  • He hadn't eaten the rhambutan fruit, so he did dream, just not of the virus and France.†   (source)
  • The memory serum virus is in the Weapons Lab.†   (source)
  • Yes, I know all about your vaccine actually being a virus; you told me that in Bangkok.†   (source)
  • The virus will be released in the locations recommended by the PCC and agreed upon by the Coalition.†   (source)
  • Should we try to make smoking less contagious, to stop the Salesmen who spread the smoking virus?†   (source)
  • "There was an additional packet with the last virus," the Ananancauimor said.†   (source)
  • Then he slowly tells me that my blood samples have come back, and I have …. the HIV virus!†   (source)
  • Nobody else at the hospital developed a proven case of Marburg-virus disease.†   (source)
  • The Thomas Strain had smothered the virus in a way that none could have hoped for.†   (source)
  • He could get the virus into a hundred major cities within a week.†   (source)
  • A third was hit by a virus that dissolved his brain to a jelly.†   (source)
  • A virus that immunizes the host by altering its DNA against certain other viruses.†   (source)
  • And then the virus would be very hard to control.†   (source)
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