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- Nov 07, 2020
Virus Quotes
From literal illness to sharp metaphor.
This page mixes literal health struggles with striking metaphor, including one voice who battled chronic fatigue after a difficult diagnosis and another who famously compared language itself to a virus. Indecision, too, is described as something contagious. See Health.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thankfully, I found a doctor at Presbyterian Hospital in New York, Scott Hammer, who diagnosed my chronic fatigue as the Epstein-Barr virus, and the medication I took either helped jump-start my immune system or made the virus dormant. I was very lucky.
- Entertainment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mutating virus of multiculturalism has escaped its breeding ground in elite universities and is now running rampant across popular culture, entertainment, and politics.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had two neck surgeries, a back surgery, three knee surgeries, eye surgery, but I keep bouncing back. I won't go away - kind of like a virus. I don't go away. I keep coming back stronger and stronger. I'm contagious.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing could be more important for a child affected by Zika virus than to have continuity of care, seamlessly from before birth to after birth.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Strandbeest is a self-replicating meme, a brain virus. It infects the student's brain. In fact, the Strandbeest abuse students for their reproduction. For two years, this reproduction fell into a flow acceleration. Now, 3D printers produce walking mini Strandbeests.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.
- Biology
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided to pursue graduate study in molecular biology and was accepted by Professor Itaru Watanabe's laboratory at the Institute for Virus Research at the University of Kyoto, one of a few laboratories in Japan where U.S.-trained molecular biologists were actively engaged in research.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I arrived in Basel, I initially attempted to continue the project of my days in Dulbecco's laboratory, namely, the transcriptional control of the simian virus 40 genes.
- Engineered
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thinking ahead, in 2013, the Japanese government, together with pharmaceutical companies and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established a fund for promoting research and development of medical products for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The importance of planning for disease outbreaks was made clear with the Ebola virus.
- Did
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course, screening for HIV did essentially eliminate the transmission of this virus by transfusions.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 5 and my sister was 3, we went on a family trip, and she ate cheese off the floor at an airport. My mother, a germaphobe, got very upset. My sister, of course, got a stomach virus, and ever since then, I have an aversion to cheese.
- Diseases
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- Nov 07, 2020