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Recent Examples of virus
The virus spread quickly in the high-density areas, where social distancing was nearly impossible.
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IEEE Spectrum, 2 Apr. 2026
It was collected for testing and on Wednesday, the county's Public Health Department confirmed that the bat tested positive for the rabies virus, police said.
—Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
Babies sick with the virus were forcibly separated from their parents and piled into cribs in crowded wards.
—Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2026
Despite this, experts still recommend getting the vaccine as doing so can reduce the chance of hospitalization and death from the virus.
—Devika Rao, TheWeek, 1 Apr. 2026
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IEEE Spectrum, 2 Apr. 2026
It was collected for testing and on Wednesday, the county's Public Health Department confirmed that the bat tested positive for the rabies virus, police said.
—Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
Babies sick with the virus were forcibly separated from their parents and piled into cribs in crowded wards.
—Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2026
Despite this, experts still recommend getting the vaccine as doing so can reduce the chance of hospitalization and death from the virus.
—Devika Rao, TheWeek, 1 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for virus
Noun
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Fox, 64, has worked for decades with Parkinson’s disease, which he was diagnosed with at age 29 in the early 1990s but kept private until 1998.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
9 Apr. 2026
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For instance, there may be more car crashes, animal bites, property damage and zoonotic disease transmission.—
Daniel T. Blumstein,
The Conversation,
8 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Dysphoria is not a social contagion.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
1 Apr. 2026
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For fear of contagion, the hospital staff housed him in a storage shed.—
Peter Wayne Moe,
Longreads,
26 Mar. 2026
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“Virus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/virus. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.
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