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
Viruses can mutate to escape from antibodies, but the mRNA vaccines are not causing the emergence of more virulent strains, likely for at least two reasons.
From Salon • Sep. 5, 2025
First, he killed the virulent, smooth bacteria with heat, then injected the heat-killed bacteria into mice.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing virulent
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