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Quotes About Virus

The examinations had taken much longer than necessary because they were paying more attention to learning each other's bodies than searching for telltale symptoms of the virus.
~ Christine Feehan
Whitney plants viruses in us to force us to return home. [...] I knew sooner or later I wouldn't return, and I'd die from whatever they put in me.
~ Christine Feehan
Perhaps, in some innocent encounter in China between a child and a bird, a new killer flu is on its way. Or perhaps, even now, a young man or a young woman has become infected with two different strains of flu viruses. They are mixing together in the person's lungs, their genes reassorting. Emerging from that witches' brew is a new virus, a chimera, that, like the 1918 flu virus, is perfectly suited for destruction.
~ Gina Kolata
Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.
~ Nathan Wolfe
I have no clue how I got COVID. I am surprised.
~ Randhir Kapoor
A piece of bad news wrapped in a protein coat.
~ Nick Lane
Imagine a plague you catch through your ears.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
How is it that you keep mutating and can still be the same virus?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
How is it you can keep mutating and still be the same deadly virus?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The only way that America can protect its prosperity and political stability will be to depopulate the Third World? Should we be surprised that the AIDS virus showed up about 1975? Do you understand what the term depopulate means?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
No doubt, this is the kind of stress the constantly mutating AIDS virus must feel.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Viruses wanted to live long enough to multiply and share themselves with the world.)
~ Chuck Wendig
Influenza. Remember, Elizabeth, I had it back in the spring? A lot of other people did, too. It wasn't too bad, although I do hate to be sick, but it's back now, with a vengeance.
~ Victoria Thompson
Sort of. I can feel the arrangement of the virus or bacteria or whatever. And once I learn it, I can replicate that specific disease." She shot Conall a smirk. "Khileshi cockfire is a favorite." Wraith laughed. Conall paled. Eidolon looked at her like she was responsible for every case of the excruciating, dick-shriveling venereal disease he'd ever treated. The guy was so freaking uptight he probably starched his freaking underwear.
~ Larissa Ione
En las doctrinas de la evolución cultural, un meme es un -replicador- y un propagador: una idea, una moda, una cadena de mensajes o una teoría de la conspiración. En un mal día, un meme es un virus.
~ James Gleick
I had survived the plagues of Africa, bullets and near death on the killing field. I'd survived the blade at my neck, only to lose my life to a virus inside a clean German clinic. I
~ James Patterson
The virus-to-cancer connection is where medicinal mushrooms offer unique opportunities for medical research.
~ Paul Stamets
Das Problem war nur, dass zwar die Weißen vom Virus befallen wurden, aber andere Leute sterben mussten.
~ Thomas Mullen
One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that's obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation.
~ Luc Montagnier
The Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 was a myxovirus. It killed twenty million people. Viruses mutate every few months. The antigens on their surface change so that they're unrecognizable to the immune system. That's why seasonals are necessary.
~ Connie Willis
They're saying it's some sort of biological weapon," Colin said. "They're saying it escaped from a laboratory.
~ Connie Willis
Keep careful track of any contacts you do have. We're still uncertain of the mode of transmission, but most myxoviruses spread by droplet and direct contact. Wash your hands with soap and water frequently.
~ Connie Willis
He had lots of guns, but you can't shoot germs.
~ Cory Doctorow