virus

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In this alternate past, a fatal blood virus, known informally as the Red Wind, has been ravaging the population for about a decade.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

She said they were infected soon after Darren arrested a suspect who was displaying symptoms of the virus.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

Once inside a tumor cell, the virus destroys it and then produces copies of itself that move on to infect neighboring cancer cells.

From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2026

He later received approval to use pig cells in humans but stopped the program due to a pig virus he feared could harm patients.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

A fatal disease vanishing for another reason was New Guinea’s laughing sickness, transmitted by cannibalism and caused by a slow-acting virus from which no one has ever recovered.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond