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virus in biology
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The common cold is caused by a virus.
virus = a tiny organism that causes disease
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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.
- essentially reprogramming the cell so it reproduces the virus instead of itself. (source)
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She'd picked up a virus, and Evra had to stay in to look after her.
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virus = a submicroscopic organism that causes disease
- Lizards carried viral diseases, including several that could be transmitted to man.† (source)
- 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)
- Some hackers in the East Village figured out a way to upload the mesh software wirelessly, and it's really gone viral now.† (source)
- Frankly, I think all we're passing along is some viral crud.† (source)
- "Viral Contagion Threat," Brenda answered before Thomas could ask her.† (source)
- Viral brain videos?† (source)
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- Father Mulligan had died four years ago of viral hepatitis, in an ashram north of Rishikesh.† (source)
- You've become a viral bomb.† (source)
- She got in touch after the video went viral.† (source)
- Jaap Goudsmit, Viral Sex: The Nature of AIDS (New York: Oxford Press, 1997), pp. 15-37.† (source)
- It is my medical opinion that in Hawaii you had an episode of myocarditis triggered by a viral infection.† (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)
- Death adapts, like a viral agent.† (source)
- As Ebola sweeps through you, your immune system fails, and you seem to lose your ability to respond to viral attack.† (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)
- Viral hepatitis.† (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)
- They take over the host and turn it into a factory for more viral shells, which repeat the process.† (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)
- I don't know, but the fact that her temperature is fluctuating indicates that it's not flu or any other viral infection.† (source)
- Eventually a neurologist told me that a strain of flu that winter had left many people with viral meningitis.† (source)
- It's like an old-fashioned viral.† (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)
- Her coma was caused by a severe case of viral meningitis.† (source)
- It had been quiet and viral.† (source)
- Before lunchtime, the lab had its answer: the lizard blood showed no significant reactivity to any viral or bacterial antigen.† (source)
- partially eaten animal procedures performed: X ray, microscopic, immunological RTX for viral, parasitic, bacterial disease.† (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)
- I keep it around for pay-for-view, mostly, or making viral brain videos—".† (source)
- Basically at some point in your past you probably had a viral infection that weakened your heart.† (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)
- "With reference to viral infections," the Librarian says, "if I may make a fairly blunt?† (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)
- Well, that shell we call a virus is able to attach to a cell wall and squirt its viral DNA inside.† (source)
- Subsections bacterial, viral, parasitic, other.† (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)
- 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)
- The mesh network had gone viral.† (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)
- 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)
- He realized that in order for the human race to advance, they had to be delivered from the grip of this viral civilization.† (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- "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)
- 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)
- 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)
- No. Have you had any recent viral infection, including poliomyelitis, hepatitis, mononucleosis, mumps, measles, varicella, or herpes?† (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)
- 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)
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got so much antiviral medicine in my system that nothing could get through.†
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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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virus in computers
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WannaCry was a ransomware computer virus that took over computer data unless a ransom was paid.
virus = a type of software that spreads without invitation between computers and causes damage to data and software
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But if you have an antivirus, a cure or a vaccine to the virus, you can "Control it," Kara finished.†
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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.
- At least, the antivirus programme didn't react.† (source)
- I doubt Svensson has any plans of giving the Israelis the antivirus, regardless of what they do.† (source)
- You can't create an antivirus with all this computing power?† (source)
- Unless we find a way to get the antivirus that already exists into our hands.† (source)
- But please, these guys have the antivirus-we can't just send a tomahawk cruise missile after them.† (source)
- Unfortunately, we don't have the antivirus quite yet either.† (source)
- In time to reach France and take the antivirus before it was too te.† (source)
- What good is the virus to them, if you have the antivirus?† (source)
- He knew about the virus, he knew about the antivirus, now he knows where we are.† (source)
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- According to Monique, they had those five days to acquire an antivirus.† (source)
- We need to stop Svensson, and we need an antivirus within a couple of weeks.† (source)
- I thought you said we couldn't risk compromising the antivirus.† (source)
- Svensson may not have the antivirus yet, but with her help, he will.† (source)
- At this very moment we have a man on the inside closing in on the antivirus.† (source)
- They plan to give out the antivirus selectively, regardless of any promise to the contrary.† (source)
- What I need now is the antivirus, or an anti-dote.† (source)
- Until the antivirus was widely distributed, Svensson might be the more powerful of the pair.† (source)
- I trust you would like to help us create that antivirus.† (source)
- Besides that, they have no guarantee that an attack would secure the antivirus.† (source)
- Without the antivirus, you have nothing.† (source)
- There's only one way to deal with the virus, and that is to find an antivirus.† (source)
- Hope for an antivirus was evaporating as the rash spread.† (source)
- You think my father isn't already working on an antivirus?† (source)
- The trick will be to find the antivirus with them.† (source)
- We will give them the antivirus, Fortier repeated.† (source)
- It doesn't matter who they give the antivirus to; our scientists can copy it from any carrier.† (source)
- Once he does his damage, our only hope will ride with an antivirus and a vaccine.† (source)
- That's the killer here: an antivirus that already exists could end all of this in two days.† (source)
- Imagine the possibilities for the man who controlled the antivirus.† (source)
- The exchange, yes, but the antivirus you receive won't be effective.† (source)
- You think it'll bring us one minute closer to an antivirus or a vaccine?† (source)
- With or without an antivirus, the clock starts ticking in fourteen hours.† (source)
- The French intend to offer the antivirus to Israel in an open-sea exchange five days from now.† (source)
- So there's a chance we may find Svensson with the antivirus.† (source)
- Then isolate the scientists who are working on the antivirus.† (source)
- "Then what, an antivirus?" the man demanded.† (source)
- The distribution of the antivirus was one of the most complex elements of the entire plan.† (source)
- She is your key to securing the antivirus.† (source)
- But he'd also learned about the antivirus.† (source)
- Our play was based on the hope that they would turn over the antivirus, true enough.† (source)
- If the president starts a war, we don't have a chance of finding the antivirus, plain and simple.† (source)
- The only hope for an antivirus rests with me.† (source)
- Unraveling an antivirus may take more time than we have.† (source)
- Nothing says he has to wait until he has the antivirus before releasing the virus.† (source)
- When would the antivirus actually be released to the chosen few?† (source)
- There s always the possibility that they will find an antivirus in time.† (source)
- What kind of antivirus will be needed then?† (source)
- To show the Frenchman their military teeth and then beg for an antivirus was simply unacceptable.† (source)
- But you don't remember anything more about the antivirus," Grant pressed.† (source)
- I take it our scientists aren't as close to creating an antivirus as we ve been led to believe.† (source)
- I know that the Swiss will have the antivirus if he doesn't already.† (source)
- Does Fortier plan on giving us an antivirus that works?† (source)
- At least we know that the antivirus now exists, and I'm in the vicinity of the people who have it.† (source)
- You're sure that you can't get your hands on the antivirus?† (source)
- How did they get an antivirus in under a week?† (source)
- The United States must have the antivirus.† (source)
- America was holding its collective breath for an antivirus that would not work.† (source)
- There is only one antivirus, and I control it.† (source)
- How do we know that they actually have an antivirus?† (source)
- The effects of the antivirus in your blood have been dyed white so that we can see them.† (source)
- If Svensson was killed, the antivirus would die with him.† (source)
- And I take it this psychic has told you that the United Sates won't receive the antivirus in time.† (source)
- If it takes us months to create a vaccine or an antivirus, how is it they have one?† (source)
- Don't kill him-we have to protect the antivirus.† (source)
- Our best shot at the antivirus is to make Carlos dream with me.† (source)
- The antivirus won't be held up in a vial in our parliament for all the world to see.† (source)
- They're undoubtedly using her now to create the antivirus.† (source)
- He knew the chances of Fortier coming through with the antivirus were next to nil.† (source)
- Had Thomas learned something about the antivirus from his dreams?† (source)
- And I'm almost certain that Fortier has no intention of giving you an antivirus that works.† (source)
- In most cases, those who ingested the antivirus would do so without knowing they had.† (source)
- Not if we can find them and the antivirus in the next three weeks.† (source)
- And I know from a very reliable source that they were after more than the antivirus.† (source)
- But the antivirus was on its way, Mike Orear insisted.† (source)
- They know we have no intention of delivering the antivirus, and they have nothing to lose.† (source)
- Without an antivirus any survival would be impossible.† (source)
- Something with the people he plans to give the antivirus to.† (source)
- They claim they have incontrovertible evidence that Svensson has an antivirus in his possession.† (source)
- But Thomas had insisted that the United States would not receive the antivirus.† (source)
- The French aren't going to give us the antivirus, he said.† (source)
- The chances offinding an antivirus in time are too low.† (source)
- The only two who've already taken the antivirus.† (source)
- But I'm happy to announce the formulation of the first antivirus.† (source)
- She'd been working on the antivirus to the Raison Strain.† (source)
- He hasn't heard about the antivirus that we have, so he thinks it's safe to kill me.† (source)
- I'm sure you're eager to complete our arrangements for the antivirus.† (source)
- Something in my red blood cells is acting like an antivirus.† (source)
- That depends on the nature of the antivirus, but you do under-stand that people will die.† (source)
- If we control even one component of the antivirus, we will have a bargaining chip.† (source)
- But without an antivirus to distribute through the blood, it was use-less.† (source)
- You mean turn the collected blood into an antivirus.† (source)
- Within a matter of days, every resident of North America would have the antivirus.† (source)
- So unless we go through with this exchange with France and get the antivirus, we're dead," Kara said.† (source)
- If I were their strategist and you were the Horde-if you were my enemy-I wouldn't give you 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)
- Only an antivirus can save humanity.† (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)
- As the era of cheap, abundant energy drew to a close, poverty and unrest began to spread like a virus.† (source)
- It turns out we were hit by a virus that wiped out the entire district server.† (source)
- The vaccine consisted of a live rabies virus, genetically modified to be nonvirulent.† (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)
- Mum thinks you've got Ebola virus.† (source)
- They are sickly and fragile and vulnerable to viruses.† (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)
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- 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)
- And in the dream nearly everyone on the earth is dead, because they have caught a virus.† (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)
- They've been touched with the same virus.† (source)
- Or maybe I'm coming down with a stomach virus.† (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)
- It feeds on itself like a 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)
- But do you have any concerns about stomach viruses?† (source)
- The experiment was abandoned after the Spheres of Influence Accord, because the virus was considered too uncontrollable and therefore too dangerous by many, although some wished to sprinkle it over India.† (source)
- They're delivering vials of some mutated virus there—it shouldn't take all night.† (source)
- Do you think it could have a virus?† (source)
- Like the virus that needed us also hated us and couldn't wait to get rid of us.† (source)
- A virus that feeds on alcohol, mixed with a growth reagent.† (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)
- Swallowed a VC virus or something.† (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)
- It was actually physical, not unlike a stomach virus.† (source)
- Dr. Virus laughed, and briefly I saw the family doctor inside this toughened revolutionary.† (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)
- It was at that moment we realized we'd been banking on a really nasty virus.† (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)
- The fair was a "contagion," a "virus," a form of "progressive cerebral meningitis."† (source)
- Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology and strange new viruses.† (source)
- You loathsome data virus!† (source)
- But in your mother's case, the mistake was caused by HPV, the genital warts 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)
- Our first weeks at the academy weren't made any easier when a vicious virus swept through the school.† (source)
- —The Amencan I-Ientizge Dictionary virus...[L.† (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)
- Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.† (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)
- Back into my cells to lurk like a virus waiting for the next opportunity?† (source)
- "That's right," she says, and hope spreads through me like a virus.† (source)
- It started on Thursday when I came down with the H1N1 virus, which at the time everyone was calling "swine flu."† (source)
- Dr. Rogers has the virus that's been going around.† (source)
- But I have a feeling it's not much protection against the intelligence and adaptability of the modern virus.† (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)
- Oh no, he thought, a virus.† (source)
- A virus that carries the gene to produce Shiga toxins is now infecting previously harmless strains of E. coli.† (source)
- Viruses are named for the place where they are first discovered.† (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)
- One of the challenges in curbing the virus is a suspicion of condoms held by many conservatives.† (source)
- Madam, we see no end of silent cirrhosis and even liver cancer from this virus.† (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)
- 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)
- 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 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)
- It works like this: When the HIV virus enters your body, it invades a cell that is part of your immune system.† (source)
- No flu, no virus, no hay fever.† (source)
- A flu virus halted the streak.† (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- I was the weakest and the virus raged through my body for almost three weeks.† (source)
- It's like a virus that sneaks around the system, pops out when your resistance is low.† (source)
- The company was best known for its handling of deadly viruses in the process of creating vaccines.† (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)
- 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)
- And she believes that toxic injection of live bovine virus marked the beginning of Christa's brain dysfunction.† (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)
- They were infected with a rotten virus called unaccountability, and more than a few millionaires were made in the ubiquitous Command Saigon.† (source)
- Any virus will be dead.† (source)
- Is a virus self-aware?† (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)
- In 2003, doctors in five nations were quickly mobilized to identify the SARS virus, an action that saved thousands of lives.† (source)
- As a result, the poor man has become a plague virus.† (source)
- She'd write a note tomorrow about having a twenty-four-hour 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)
- 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)
- You dig it up here and it jumps up over there, doubling and tripling and spreading like a virus.† (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)
- The chips are more like viruses than computers.† (source)
- I thought maybe it was some kind of serious virus or flu.† (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 latent rabies virus flared up among the starving foxes, and the wolves began to contract the disease too.† (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)
- The virus must have entered his bloodstream: or else he was merely approaching second childhood more quickly than he had supposed.† (source)
- Radiation's not a germ or a virus.† (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)
- She figured it was a virus, or perhaps allergies to a particular mold in the building.† (source)
- The Flare virus lives in every part of your body, yet it has no effect on you, nor will it ever.† (source)
- To see the results of their mutated plague virus?† (source)
- The virus takes up residence in your lungs.† (source)
- Booby traps and land mines and gangrene and shock and polio from a VC virus.† (source)
- Believing fundamentally in the right of a plant or a virus to rule the earth.† (source)
- This...virus...works the same with anal.† (source)
- As soon as I see him, the stomach virus/hot flashes/butterflies return.† (source)
- The doctors kept us away from the rest of the team because the virus was so contagious.† (source)
- Its name was JUVE, Jetspeed Ultra Virus Extraordinary.† (source)
- Can you believe they even gave her that AID virus and injected her into monkeys?† (source)
- The rest of the people in the shop had freaked out knowing the virus was so close.† (source)
- Even worse, the virus had been modified.† (source)
- At the moment I am here as a birthday virus.† (source)
- "I'm afraid we gave her a stomach virus," Reynie interjected.† (source)
- I don't know, what's the proper reaction when a deadly virus is announced?† (source)
- The Stickiness Factor SESAME STREET, BLUE'S CLUES, AND THE EDUCATIONAL VIRUS.† (source)
- Our tribes got much bigger, and we spread across the entire planet like an unstoppable virus.† (source)
- Keeps the Flare at bay because the virus thrives in your brain.† (source)
- She was afraid—this is so ridiculous-she was afraid I was going to catch a virus from it.† (source)
- One of these days, a virus will get out of hand, and no vaccine or cure will be able to stop it.† (source)
- If there's not a lot of activity, the virus weakens.† (source)
- So you couldn't have contracted this virus naturally?† (source)
- That virus hit all the major population centers and spread rapidly.† (source)
- Like the outbreak of some new killer virus, or another major city vanishing in a mushroom cloud.† (source)
- And when you explode, you blast everyone around you with the virus.† (source)
- They'd given the virus a name, to make it seem more manageable.† (source)
- Should we try to make smoking less contagious, to stop the Salesmen who spread the smoking virus?† (source)
- This Snow Crash thing-is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?† (source)
- Maybe this virus is less dangerous and he'll recover on his own.† (source)
- Her agent of infection was television, and the "virus" she wanted to spread was literacy.† (source)
- The whole city is cull of idiots thinking they've been containing the virus.† (source)
- The AVE killer virus has broken out in Fiji, spared until now.† (source)
- You mean your cybrid was incapacitated while the virus destroyed you?† (source)
- Each me was a sort of virus, kicked out by the metavirus principle.† (source)
- They got sick, and then suddenly the virus let go.† (source)
- They pump that virus into the slum sectors through a system of underground pipes.† (source)
- The virus that was eating me has been replaced by a different disease that's even more hungry.† (source)
- Hopefully the majority of us do not have the virus yet, but it's inevitable in this crumbling world.† (source)
- He is known to have infected at least sixteen of his former girlfriends with the AIDS virus.† (source)
- Jimmy pondered this; then he asked if anyone else had caught the virus.† (source)
- So did Lagos think that the Asherah virus actually altered the DNA of brain cells?† (source)
- Whoever...whatever...attacked me used a type of weapon known in the Core as an AIDS II virus.† (source)
- Whatever virus Eden has ...They're coming to get him.† (source)
- Nothing had changed in the way in which the virus was being spread.† (source)
- It's where the virus settles and takes hold.† (source)
- That concentrates the population, creating the perfect breeding ground for the virus.† (source)
- Assume that the nam-shub of Enki really functioned as a virus.† (source)
- Unsterilized needles and syringes could have spread the virus from child to child.† (source)
- They want to know whether she believes Y.T.'s virus story.† (source)
- The world has no chance—the virus is too strong.† (source)
- Half of the vials on the shelf are labeled with the three-lined X: T. Filoviridae Virus Mutations.† (source)
- You couldn't invent a more efficient delivery system for a virus that has a 97 percent kill rate.† (source)
- The virus is generally fatal, and can be spread through the air.† (source)
- For one reason or another, the virus became a lot deadlier.† (source)
- You start spitting up little drops of virus-laden blood.† (source)
- Theories Lagos tried to apply to his virus hypothesis.† (source)
- See how they work within the confines of the virus that's inside you.† (source)
- Those 1,000 Canadian tourists pass on the virus to 1,000 new people on the day they arrive.† (source)
- Like rats fleeing a sinking ship, the virus erupts out of every opening.† (source)
- And that Enki invented this virus and spread it throughout Sumer, using tablets like this one?† (source)
- They're hated for their immunity to the terrible virus, are mockingly called Munies.† (source)
- They infected them with the Hush Puppies "virus."† (source)
- Now you are talking about a biological virus again.† (source)
- But the virus had suddenly become much more deadly.† (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)
- Everyone here is healthy and virus-free, but there are many who still don't take kindly to Immunes.† (source)
- As far as I know, there's no way to stop the binary virus.† (source)
- Was Y.T. also afraid of catching this virus?† (source)
- We did our best to keep the virus from you as long as we could.† (source)
- In binary form, a virus can bounce around the universe at the speed of light.† (source)
- But according to what you just quoted me, the Torah is like a virus.† (source)
- But I guess he found an old virus or something that was aimed at the elite thinkers.† (source)
- If they'd known what a virus was, they probably would have thought the same thing.† (source)
- virus slimy liquid, poison, offensive odour or taste.]† (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)
- 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)
- Here in the Wall many people believed the government was spreading the virus, our government.† (source)
- They fed on infected bodies, then spread the virus to new feeding grounds.† (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)
- Like an acid, the virus had eaten the host from the inside out.† (source)
- "I have heard about this virus," Okuku said.† (source)
- Any virus used for genetic modification was generally termed a retrovirus.† (source)
- I'm going to read everything that has ever been written about the HIV virus and full-blown AIDS.† (source)
- Well, that shell we call a virus is able to attach to a cell wall and squirt its viral DNA inside.† (source)
- It's like a virus, an infection, passing from one person to another.† (source)
- When the white blood cells reproduce to fight infection, the virus reproduces, too.† (source)
- Honestly, I can't tell you why I decided to test your blood against the virus, but I did.† (source)
- The PCC ...The man named Bruce had mentioned them as part of the people behind the virus attack.† (source)
- There's the perennial threat of virus of course.† (source)
- The virus had progressed to AIDS in 1,003 of those people, and 653 had died.† (source)
- "It's time to use the memory serum virus for a mass reset," he says.† (source)
- In anyone else with acute hepatitis B, a liver transplant would simply feed the virus.† (source)
- Whatever it was that transmitted the disease, it was larger than a virus.† (source)
- I sweep my eyes across the room, searching for the device that will release the memory serum virus.† (source)
- The virus didn't ravage the world in 2010.† (source)
- We can make a virus that makes most people sick but only kills one selected person.† (source)
- That cell turns into a major virus factory, churning out copies of the HIV invader.† (source)
- Virus-laced darts shrieking through the air, thunking into necks and arms and shoulders.† (source)
- She was beginning to think that this monkey did not have Ebola 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)
- You were actually there, working on the virus?† (source)
- A third was hit by a virus that dissolved his brain to a jelly.† (source)
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