How to Use virus in a Sentence

virus

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  • 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.
  • Since then, seven more deaths have been linked to the virus.
    — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The whole immune system is there to respond to the virus.
    — Angus Chen, STAT, 8 Nov. 2023
  • So, Zimmer asks, where does a virus stand on the spectrum of life?
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 17 Mar. 2023
  • At least 58 million birds were slaughtered last year to limit the spread of the virus.
    — Marina Johnson, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The spike protein is what the virus uses to attach to and infect cells.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 5 Jan. 2024
  • There is no vaccine for the virus, and the survival rate is only 20 to 30% in most cases, the zoo said.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 1 July 2023
  • The virus infects about 19 to 21 million people each year in the United States.
    — Kristina Behr, Parents, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Amichai Lau-Lavie wants to get inside the system of Judaism like a virus.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 June 2024
  • But the farmworker hadn’t heard of the bird flu, and the clinician didn’t mention it or test for the virus.
    — Amy Maxmen, CNN, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Cow udders have been identified as a hotspot for the virus.
    — Tina Reed, Axios, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Because the virus takes time to travel to the brain, these treatments can thwart it if given soon enough.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2023
  • But those of us who still face the concern of a virus that could harm or kill us are more and more isolated.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The new boosters were made based on omicron variants of the virus instead of the original strain.
    — Wes Davis, The Verge, 20 Sep. 2023
  • But the virus that causes Covid-19 has not disappeared.
    — Syra Madad, CNN, 4 Mar. 2023
  • The worker has since recovered and didn’t pass the virus to anyone else, according to the CDC.
    — Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 10 Apr. 2024
  • May 9 was the last time the virus was detected in a backyard flock in Ionia County.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 17 June 2024
  • The platform with the higher number of virus encounters?
    — Eric Griffith, PCMAG, 10 July 2023
  • Dengue is an illness caused by infection with one of four dengue virus strains (dengue-1, -2, -3 or -4).
    — Stephen J. Thomas, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The avian flu virus replicates using a protein called ANP32A in chicken cells.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The measles virus can stay in the air and infect others for up to two hours after a contagious person has left the room.
    — David Higgins, The Conversation, 1 Mar. 2024
  • For 1,476 days the virus’ death count ticked steadily upwards, sometimes by huge leaps in a single day.
    — Harriet Blair Rowan, The Mercury News, 21 May 2024
  • But there are signs now that this summer wave may have now reached its peak across some states in this region, where the virus first picked up steam.
    — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 12 July 2024
  • Measles is a respiratory virus that is spread through the air.
    — Anumita Kaur, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The announcement doesn’t mean all viruses act the same or have the same impact, Cohen noted.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Several adults and children in Congo and elsewhere have been confirmed to have come down with a new form of the virus.
    — Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 14 Aug. 2024
  • This is the second time the agency has made such a declaration in two years in response to the transmission of this virus.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 15 Aug. 2024
  • There has been no transmission of the virus between people during this outbreak.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2024

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