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A highly infectious airborne virus on the wind was virtually indefensible in open cities.
Chpt Prol. *

virus = tiny germ that causes disease by taking over cells
The company was best known for its handling of deadly viruses in the process of creating vaccines.
Chpt 8

viruses = tiny germs that cause disease by taking over cells
Svensson's objective was simple: to develop a highly virulent and stable airborne virus with a three— to six-week incubation period that responded immediately to an antivirus he alone controlled.†
Chpt Prol.
Svensson's objective was simple: to develop a highly virulent and stable airborne virus with a three— to six-week incubation period that responded immediately to an antivirus he alone controlled.†
Chpt Prol.

antivirus = software that stops uninvited software from spreading between computers and causing damage to data and software

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.
Assuming, of course, such a virus could be developed and then secured.†
Chpt Prol.
He'd always thought it would be ironic if the French company Raison-pronounced ray-ZONE, meaning "reason"—might one day pro-duce a virus that would bring the world to its knees.†
Chpt Prol.
The result, the visitor claimed, would be a lethal air-borne virus with an incubation of three weeks.†
Chpt Prol.
The fate of the world rests on one illusive virus and its cure.†
Chpt Prol.
We may have just found that virus.†
Chpt Prol.
We would have to start with the great virus at the beginning of the twenty-first century—†
Chpt 7
They thought it was a good thing, a vaccine, but it mutated under intense heat and became a virus.†
Chpt 7
It will begin with the Raison Strain-some kind of virus that comes from a French company.†
Chpt 8
What did you say that virus was called?†
Chpt 8
What virus?†
Chpt 8
Only that the Raison Vaccine has some problems and ends up as a virus called the Raison Strain, which infects most of the world population in a ...†
Chpt 8
Now the mob is breathing down our necks, and it just so happens that the whole world is about to be infected by a virus no one but my dreaming brother knows about.†
Chpt 8
And how, pray tell, does he know about this virus?†
Chpt 8
That a virus is about to threaten the world.†
Chpt 8
If this virus is about to wipe out a few billion people, you'd think you would have the presence of mind to ask about it.†
Chpt 11
A virus.†
Chpt 11
As a matter of fact, the Raison Strain makes the Ebola virus look like a common cold.†
Chpt 12
The virus may just have broken out in—†
Chpt 12
-when a vaccine overheats and turns into a deadly virus.†
Chpt 12
"Three weeks after the virus is released," Thomas clarified.†
Chpt 12
Are you aware that intense heat kills things like viruses, Mr. Hunter?†
Chpt 12
The result, the visitor claimed, would be a lethal airborne virus with an incubation of three weeks.†
Chpt 13
Perhaps they had found the virus, although it was difficult to imagine they'd done so by this sort of means.†
Chpt 13
An odorless virus borne on the wind, searching for human hosts.†
Chpt 13
Not a simple disease as innocuous as Ebola that took weeks to spread properly, but a genetically engineered virus that traveled with the world's air currents and infected the entire world's population.†
Chpt 13
There was no defense for such a virus.†
Chpt 13
Except an antivirus.†
Chpt 13

antivirus = software that stops uninvited software from spreading between computers and causing damage to data and software

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.
A dozen times they'd been very hopeful of uncovering a virus with precisely the illusive characteristics they required.†
Chpt 13
Furthermore, if any pharmaceutical research firm had the resources to develop such a virus, it would be Raison Pharmaceutical.†
Chpt 13
One virus.†
Chpt 13
One virus and one antivirus.†
Chpt 13
One virus and one antivirus.†
Chpt 13

antivirus = software that stops uninvited software from spreading between computers and causing damage to data and software

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.
"One virus, one vaccine, and one man with the will to use both," Svensson said, and then slowly turned to Carlos.†
Chpt 13
Contingencies for a hundred possible reactions to the release of any virus that met their requirements.†
Chpt 13
If a hundred million Americans woke up one morning and learned they had been infected with a virus that would kill them in a matter of weeks, and only one man had the cure and was demanding their cooperation in exchange for that cure ....This was true power.†
Chpt 13
The one virus with its one cure.†
Chpt 13
I don't know what happens after the great virus in 2010, but before then, I know quite a bit.†
Chpt 14
The virus?†
Chpt 14
Either way, Tanis knew less than Tom did about the virus.†
Chpt 14
Like a primordial soup from which would come the most deadly virus the earth had ever known.†
Chpt 15
It mutates under extreme heat and becomes a virus that we believe may have far-reaching implications.†
Chpt 15
In my dreams, my sister and I seem to think we might be able to prevent the virus from being released.†
Chpt 16
Raison Pharmaceutical had completed the development of a new airborne super-vaccine engineered to vaccinate against nine primary viruses, including SARS and HIV.†
Chpt 17
It would mutate into a virus that would make SARS look like a case of the hiccups.†
Chpt 17
It mutates under intense heat and becomes a deadly virus that kills billions of people.†
Chpt 17
The world in which a virus called the Raison Strain was about to forever alter human history.†
Chpt 17

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(1) (virus as in: Covid 19 virus)
a tiny infectious agent that causes disease by invading living cells and using them to make more copies of itself

Although viruses contain genetic material, they can only reproduce by hijacking the reproductive machinery of a cell they invade.
(2) (virus as in: computer virus)
a type of software that spreads without invitation between computers and causes damage to data and software

Computer viruses are so-named because like a biological virus, they contain instructions on how to reproduce, but require the infected computer to actually execute the instructions.
(3) (viral as in: it went viral)
spreading rapidly and widely -- especially through the internet or social media
(4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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