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virus

noun as in bacterium, bug

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The vaccine is delivered through a “carrier virus” that causes a common cold in chimpanzees but does not affect humans.

He became delirious, his heartbeat grew ragged, his blood teemed with the virus, and his lungs, liver and kidneys began to fail.

By May 27, five people had succumbed to the virus and 16 more were infected.

The current FDA-approved measles vaccine consists of live but weakened measles virus that is injected into the arm.

The fact that the virus is still alive has sustained many safety concerns, both rational and irrational, about its use.

If there is neuritis from the virus it becomes intense and causes muscular contractions, paresis, and paralysis.

(p. 442) But it was the more poisonous virus of Secession which finally laid their proud city low.

The scientists of Sator knew that the virus was virulent; in fact, too virulent for its own good.

They knew that shortly after every Nansalian died, the virus, too, would be dead.

It killed the host every time, and the virus could not live outside a living cell.

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