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Recent Examples of virus
Earlier this year, two unvaccinated school-age children in Texas died from the virus.
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Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 22 May 2025
The shingles vaccine may protect against more than just the virus, recent research suggests.
—Stephanie Anderson Witmer, Health, 22 May 2025
But kids’ first defenses against the virus are likely to be that attack’s collateral damage.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 21 May 2025
Communities with higher vaccination rates have fewer opportunities to spread the virus.
—Libby Richards, The Conversation, 21 May 2025
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Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 22 May 2025
The shingles vaccine may protect against more than just the virus, recent research suggests.
—Stephanie Anderson Witmer, Health, 22 May 2025
But kids’ first defenses against the virus are likely to be that attack’s collateral damage.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 21 May 2025
Communities with higher vaccination rates have fewer opportunities to spread the virus.
—Libby Richards, The Conversation, 21 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for virus
Noun
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This field includes liquid biopsy, referring to techniques that process bodily fluids such as blood, urine, and saliva for different disease biomarkers.—
Cat Wang,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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The Mayo Clinic says the disease is most often diagnosed when people are in their mid-60s.—
Christie D’Zurilla,
Los Angeles Times,
23 May 2025
Noun
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These restrictions, in place for four decades, didn’t end the associations of immigrants and disease, but these connections were overshadowed for a time by the fear of political contagion: communism became the new communicable disease.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
16 Jan. 2025
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Fear of political caprice masquerading as strategy, of a trade war metastasizing into financial contagion, and of a world where traditional safe havens—currencies, institutions, alliances—no longer offer much safety at all.—
Mohammed Soliman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Apr. 2025
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“Virus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/virus. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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