Bug of a sort

Usage examples of virus.

He possesses the Lovering allele of cold virus paranoia, wearing wool coats in the height of summer.

I have taped a virus ampoule to a simple explosive device which will be detonated at 3.

He was rubbing his depleted anther and chuckling, perhaps at the thought of what his gengineered viruses were doing to the bodies on the floor, perhaps at the thought of how the modified honeysuckle plant that kept them from protesting their transformation might be received in the outer world, if only he would release it, or if it would escape.

A positive HIV result from somebody who is completely symptom-free, on the other hand, means either that the antibody has been carried from birth without the virus ever having been encountered, or that the virus has been successfully neutralized to the point of invisibility.

A survivor was important because he or she would have developed an antibody to combat the virus, or antigen.

If this is a virus infection, we might only need to find an antibody for inoculation to stop it in its tracks.

A specific antibody used against a specific virus should have destroyed the virus or slowed its progress, and there seemed to be no rational explanation for the dreadful response of the uninfected ones who had been inoculated for protection.

Once they gained access to enough nanites, the assimilated ones began transmitting a virus through subspace.

Since Ebola virus is highly infective and since as few as five or ten particles of the virus in a blood-borne contact can start an extreme amplification in a new host, there would have been excellent opportunity for the agent to spread.

He knew about the virus, he knew about the antivirus, now he knows where we are.

This is the genuinely decisive technology of modern medicine, exemplified best by modern methods for immunization against diphtheria, pertussis, and the childhood virus diseases, and the contemporary use of antibiotics and chemotherapy for bacterial infections.

Since they also created a bacteriophage, a bacteria-eating virus, they eliminated the evidence as well.

Wu more or less admitted that the Chi is similar to terrestrial bacteria, it is odd that a mammalian paramyxovirus rather than a bacteriophage was chosen, but Mariella dismisses it as a minor mystery, is more concerned with proving her hypothesis that, after infection, the Chi altered the virus.

So the virus is spreading exponentially and yet completely undetected.

The wildest struggles of his delirium, when the helico virus had raged in his hypothalamus, had not sufficed for him to break the leather thongs securing his wrists and ankles.