Definition of Virus

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Definition of Virus

Virus

Contagious or poisonous matter, as of specific ulcers, the bite of snakes, etc.; -- applied to organic poisons.

The special contagion, inappreciable to the senses and acting in exceedingly minute quantities, by which a disease is introduced into the organism and maintained there.

Fig.: Any morbid corrupting quality in intellectual or moral conditions; something that poisons the mind or the soul; as, the virus of obscene books.

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Virus Quotations

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
Maya Angelou

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
Gore Vidal

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
William S. Burroughs

Language is a virus from outer space.
William S. Burroughs

I wanted to play around with the format, really tear it to pieces and shake it up. For example, if Mitch saves someone from drowning, and that person then goes out and releases a virus that kills a million people. Imagine the moral implications of that.
David Hasselhoff

I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.
Jonas Salk

An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.
James Lovelock

With the absence of a flu vaccination last year, I did not take a flu shot; but there is still some immunity that carries over from year to year; but about every 30 years, there is a major change in the genetics of the flu virus.
Michael Burgess

Since most of the transmission is sexual transmission, you have a regional or local response to the virus.
Luc Montagnier

Virus Translations

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