virulent

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But time travel is an imperfect science, and the technician overseeing the process is delirious from a virulent new strain of flu, so Kivrin is accidentally dropped into 1348, the year of the Black Death.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

"This is a particularly virulent strain of influenza and there are lots of children experiencing very high temperatures and they are experiencing the flu for much longer than we would expect."

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2025

She explained that the vaccine strain appears smooth and stable at the surface, while the virulent strain has a noticeably uneven, textured exterior.

From Science Daily • Nov. 27, 2025

The virulent Delta variant, for example, appeared in the spring of 2021 and was overtaken by the Omicron variant, which also caused severe disease, that November.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2025

Amaranta felt humiliated and told Pietro Crespi with a virulent anger that she was prepared to stop her sister's wedding even if her own dead body had to lie across the door.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez