How to Use virus in a Sentence
virus
noun
- The software checks your hard drive for viruses.
- Is the illness caused by bacteria or a virus?
- I think I have the virus that's going around this winter.
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African fruit bats are the reservoir hosts of the virus, the CDC said.
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Staff and Wire Reports,
USA TODAY,
13 Feb. 2023
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Since then, seven more deaths have been linked to the virus.
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Jake Frederico,
The Arizona Republic,
28 Apr. 2023
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The whole immune system is there to respond to the virus.
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Angus Chen,
STAT,
8 Nov. 2023
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The virus had been dormant for tens of thousands of years.
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Jacob Siegal,
BGR,
3 Dec. 2022
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So, Zimmer asks, where does a virus stand on the spectrum of life?
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Tim Newcomb,
Popular Mechanics,
17 Mar. 2023
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At least 58 million birds were slaughtered last year to limit the spread of the virus.
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Marina Johnson,
The Indianapolis Star,
5 Apr. 2024
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The spike protein is what the virus uses to attach to and infect cells.
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Mary Kekatos,
ABC News,
5 Jan. 2024
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The two men meet three years after the deadly fungal virus takes over the world.
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Sabrina Talbert,
Women's Health,
30 Jan. 2023
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There is no vaccine for the virus, and the survival rate is only 20 to 30% in most cases, the zoo said.
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Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
1 July 2023
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The virus infects about 19 to 21 million people each year in the United States.
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Kristina Behr,
Parents,
1 Mar. 2024
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Amichai Lau-Lavie wants to get inside the system of Judaism like a virus.
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Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
15 June 2024
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But the farmworker hadn’t heard of the bird flu, and the clinician didn’t mention it or test for the virus.
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Amy Maxmen,
CNN,
2 Aug. 2024
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Cow udders have been identified as a hotspot for the virus.
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Tina Reed,
Axios,
2 Aug. 2024
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Yet the virus is not new, and warnings have been sounded before.
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Megan Durisin,
Fortune,
19 Dec. 2022
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Les Bleus have been ravaged by a virus that has torn though their squad in recent days.
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Doug McIntyre,
Fox News,
17 Dec. 2022
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Because the virus takes time to travel to the brain, these treatments can thwart it if given soon enough.
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Emily Mullin,
WIRED,
29 Aug. 2023
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The virus has been an awkward part of year-ending debates.
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Byrick Klein, Averi Harper,
ABC News,
14 Dec. 2022
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But those of us who still face the concern of a virus that could harm or kill us are more and more isolated.
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Amy Dickinson,
Detroit Free Press,
28 Mar. 2023
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The new boosters were made based on omicron variants of the virus instead of the original strain.
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Wes Davis,
The Verge,
20 Sep. 2023
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None of the workers on the mink farm became infected with the H5N1 virus, the authors report.
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Beth Mole,
Ars Technica,
24 Jan. 2023
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But the virus that causes Covid-19 has not disappeared.
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Syra Madad,
CNN,
4 Mar. 2023
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The worker has since recovered and didn’t pass the virus to anyone else, according to the CDC.
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Natalie Wallington,
Kansas City Star,
10 Apr. 2024
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May 9 was the last time the virus was detected in a backyard flock in Ionia County.
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Kristen Jordan Shamus,
Detroit Free Press,
17 June 2024
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The platform with the higher number of virus encounters?
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Eric Griffith,
PCMAG,
10 July 2023
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Dengue is an illness caused by infection with one of four dengue virus strains (dengue-1, -2, -3 or -4).
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Stephen J. Thomas,
Forbes,
18 Feb. 2024
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Some research suggests that zinc may stop the cold virus from binding to cells in the body and copying itself, potentially shortening the length of an illness.
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Jamie Ducharme,
TIME,
1 Nov. 2024
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Trump faced heavy criticism for downplaying the virus, promoting unproven remedies and clashing with his own health experts, most notably Dr. Anthony Fauci.
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Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2024
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