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

Skelly said she was considering vaccinating her ewes and lambs against bluetongue virus - a disease spread by biting midges that had previously been confined to Africa.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

It develops when the virus responsible for chickenpox becomes active again in the body, often years after the original infection.

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

People who have never had chicken pox are readily infected by the virus.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann