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Measles is a highly contagious and potentially fatal airborne virus that can affect people of any age and cause an array of complications, including deafness, blindness and brain inflammation.
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Stephanie Innes, AZCentral.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Two doses of the MMR vaccine provide 97% protection against the virus, according to the CDC.
—Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
If adopted, this change would reverse decades of progress that have virtually eliminated childhood transmission of a virus that continues to affect millions across this nation — including me.
—Fiona Ma, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2025
If a new virus emerges that is like nothing humans have encountered before, people won’t have immunity to it, Gaunt says.
—Chris Simms, Scientific American, 25 Sep. 2025
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Stephanie Innes, AZCentral.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Two doses of the MMR vaccine provide 97% protection against the virus, according to the CDC.
—Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
If adopted, this change would reverse decades of progress that have virtually eliminated childhood transmission of a virus that continues to affect millions across this nation — including me.
—Fiona Ma, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2025
If a new virus emerges that is like nothing humans have encountered before, people won’t have immunity to it, Gaunt says.
—Chris Simms, Scientific American, 25 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for virus
Noun
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But warming ocean temperatures, rising sea levels, disease and human activity, such as pollution, have severely degraded Florida's reefs, according to the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
1 Oct. 2025
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In the series, Marie, an ambitious young woman of minor nobility, learns that her lung disease is terminal.—
Emiliano De Pablos,
Variety,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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There’s a lower risk of contagion with inactive chronic hepatitis B, while active chronic hepatitis B is contagious indefinitely.—
Angelica Stabile,
FOXNews.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Research on social contagion consistently shows that when enough individuals adopt new behaviors, change accelerates exponentially.—
Margie Warrell,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Virus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/virus. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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