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State health officials will add flu data to its respiratory virus dashboard during the fall flu season, and in the mean time the agency recommends everyone over 6 months of age should stay up to date on COVID-19 vaccinations to protect against severe illness and current variants.
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Brooke Baitinger, Sacbee.com, 12 Sep. 2025
After initial infection, the virus lies dormant in the brain and, eventually, can lead to the destruction of infected brain cells.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
These side effects are of particular concern because the measles virus is highly contagious—an order of magnitude more than seasonal influenza.
—Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2025
The project seeks to protect against future increases in run-off, flooding and water temperatures that lead to more pathogens, viruses and natural organic matter.
—Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2025
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Brooke Baitinger, Sacbee.com, 12 Sep. 2025
After initial infection, the virus lies dormant in the brain and, eventually, can lead to the destruction of infected brain cells.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
These side effects are of particular concern because the measles virus is highly contagious—an order of magnitude more than seasonal influenza.
—Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2025
The project seeks to protect against future increases in run-off, flooding and water temperatures that lead to more pathogens, viruses and natural organic matter.
—Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for virus
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Those drugs, which target rare diseases, and some newer cancer treatments are part of the reason Sun Life Financial covered 47 claims last year that cost over $3 million.—
Kaitlyn Schallhorn,
Oc Register,
10 Sep. 2025
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Certain health conditions, including liver disease, cancer, diabetes or HIV, or immunosuppressants, raise the risk for severe illness.—
Mollye Barrows,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
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Both also blamed those who were not responsible, traded in the language of contagions and moral certitude, and believed that controlling the medium could solve the problem — or, at the very least, not deepen the problem further.—
Kevin Dickinson,
Big Think,
2 Sep. 2025
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The work catalogues minor and major mass contagions, from the seventeenth-century tulip mania in the Netherlands to the California telephone illness of 1984, in which eighty employees at a telephone operator facility suddenly fell ill after a coworker claimed to smell toxic fumes.—
Christy Lange,
Artforum,
1 Sep. 2025
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“Virus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/virus. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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