VIRUS in a Sentence

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For VIRUS, below is one of 36 sentences:
Authorities are now scrabbling to piece together where he went and who he encountered, in a bid to halt the spread of the deadly virus.

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 Meanings and Examples of VIRUS
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virus
 n.  disease communicator; something that poisons one's soul or mind; program for unwanted actions in computer
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Example Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
16  So now I guess the virus is gone but I think we have another one because yahoo still freezes sometimes when you open a new browser window.
17  The World Health Organization says there is no guarantee that every sample of the virus can be traced and destroyed.
18  But it says that the fact there have been no reports so far of anyone handling the virus becoming ill is reassuring and that the risk of a pandemic is very low.
19  The deputy prime minister, Abdullah Badawi had to formulate Malaysia's response to the US-led invasion of Iraq, deal with the outbreak of the SARS virus and keep watch while the courts heard an appeal by his jailed predecessor Anwar Ibrahim.
20  If the infant is able to clear the virus from their body this will occur within the first 2 years of life.
21  The proposal for genetic modification involves to insert a fluorescent protein into the virus.
22  The trial of 21 medical workers, allegedly linked to an outbreak of the HIV virus in southern Kazakhstan, has begun.
23  The proposal for genetic modification involves inserting a fluorescent protein into the virus.
24  It's been 25 years since the HIV virus was identified but in that time scientists have struggled to develop an effective vaccine against it.
25  The story starts off as a disaster narrative, as most of humanity gets wiped out by a flu virus and the few survivors begin to cluster together.
26  Even so, the National Cancer Institute is intrigued enough to be providing a million dollars of funding to produce enough of the genetically engineered cold virus.
27  They have used a genetically engineered form of the common cold virus to destroy human brain tumor cells that had been injected into mice.
28  The discovery last week that two nurses at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital here had caught the virus while treating Mr. Duncan extended concentric circles of fear to new sets of hospital workers and other contacts.
29  Authorities are now scrabbling to piece together where he went and who he encountered, in a bid to halt the spread of the deadly virus.
30  The US government agency responsible to classify viruses, the Centre for Disease Control, says it was in the process of deciding whether to change the strain's classification.