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Antibiotics don't work against viruses.

The virus mutated, so that this year's flu shot won't protect against it.

Our tribes got much bigger, and we spread across the entire planet like an unstoppable virus.  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

Even worse, the virus had been modified.  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

They are sickly and fragile and vulnerable to viruses.†  (source) Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, 2007

Father Mulligan had died four years ago of viral hepatitis, in an ashram north of Rishikesh.  (source) Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, 1997

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) Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave, 2013

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) Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes, 2007

There was concern as to whether it was infected, but they came to the conclusion that such thoughts were unfounded. This was no virus Max was suffering from, so they carried it [the mattress] up and replaced the sheet.  (source) Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, 2005

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) Dave Eggers, The Circle, 2013

I don't know, but the fact that her temperature is fluctuating indicates that it's not flu or any other viral infection.  (source) Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, 2009

It was soon recognized that the drug was a broad-spectrum antiviral agent.†  (source) Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain, 1969

Sore throats this severe were usually caused by strep bacteria or the mono virus, she said.  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

She avoided opening the suspicious email attachment, worried it might contain a virus that could damage his computer.

It turns out we were hit by a virus that wiped out the entire district server.  (source) Neal Shusterman, Unwind, 2007

The Chinese are denying responsibility, but the bigger issue now is the Scramble virus that has infected logistics systems—  (source) Matthew Mather, Cyberstorm, 2013

But if you have an antivirus, a cure or a vaccine to the virus, you can "Control it," Kara finished.†  (source) Ted Dekker, Black: The Birth of Evil, 2004

Kind of in the same way that a virus moves from one computer to another, damaging each computer in the same way.  (source) Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992

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) Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire, 2009

That depends on the nature of the antivirus, but you do under-stand that people will die.†  (source) Ted Dekker, White: The Great Pursuit, 2004

Does the message contain a virus?  (source) Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, 2009

But they were every one of them computer wizards, and they were well versed in the art of contriving viruses.  (source) Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, 2009

But please, these guys have the antivirus-we can't just send a tomahawk cruise missile after them.†  (source) Ted Dekker, Red: The Heroic Rescue, 2004

They'd announced that the Scramble virus was retaliation for the Stuxnet and Flame cyberweapons that the United States had unleashed against Iran.  (source) Matthew Mather, Cyberstorm, 2013

On the contrary—they were hackers and consequently implacable adversaries of those idiots who created viruses whose sole purpose was to sabotage the Net and crash computers.  (source) Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, 2009

"Then what, an antivirus?" the man demanded.†  (source) Ted Dekker, Black: The Birth of Evil, 2004

The dance challenge became viral on TikTok, with people all over the world joining in.

Some hackers in the East Village figured out a way to upload the mesh software wirelessly, and it's really gone viral now.  (source) Matthew Mather, Cyberstorm, 2013

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) John Green, Turtles All the Way Down, 2017

She got in touch after the video went viral.  (source) Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, 2012

Does every viral idea have a biological virus counterpart?  (source) Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992

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) Gayle Forman, Where She Went, 2011

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) Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory, 2014

Her job was to disseminate YouTube clips of reactionary political debates by random talking heads on various shows, generate controversy, and make the clips go viral.  (source) Ling Ma, Severance, 2019