virus
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The Bundibugyo virus strain, for which there is no approved vaccine or cure, has infected more than 8,500 people in Congo, and is fatal in almost half of the cases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
The health minister said authorities have reported the death to WHO, and would conduct intense screenings of incoming flights from countries known to have the virus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Restrictions aimed at controlling bluetongue, a virus that affects sheep, cattle and other livestock, are now in force across the whole of Scotland.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Take that dichotomy between the self-importance running like a virus through young men and the prudent actions taken by The Cornell Daily Sun staff.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
Our tribes got much bigger, and we spread across the entire planet like an unstoppable virus.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
He goes on to emphasize that what Claude found — a previously uncharacterized enzyme system found in viruses that infect bacteria — isn’t necessarily going to be useful.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026
Cleaning remains important for removing viruses and bacteria from surfaces, but several simple measures may reduce exposure to the secondary pollution produced during the process.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
Some AI industry leaders fear doomsday scenarios such as the possibility of AI bots creating novel viruses capable of wiping out humanity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Two Anthropic leaders are investing in a small startup backed by Peter Thiel that is developing hardware to detect viruses in the air, as fears grow that artificial-intelligence systems might cause novel biological threats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Then, in the late 1890s, two Germans, Friedrich Löffler and Paul Frosch, discovered other disease-causing organisms even tinier than bacteria, called viruses.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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Computer Science and Technology - Introductory
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