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Does HIV cause AIDS? Can a virus cause a syndrome? How? It can't, because a syndrome is a group of diseases resulting from acquired immune deficiency.

For the first time in history, we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real-time... Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour.

If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.

To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement.... Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus.

The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation.

Pseudoscience is like a virus. At low levels, it's no big deal, but when it reaches a certain threshold it becomes sickening.

Science has eradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but talk of pestilence as the wages of sin.

Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.

Dance music is like a virus, it has affected so many different genres.

The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus.

Images contaminate us like viruses.

It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid - usually by DNA, although certain small viruses use RNA as their genetic material.

Language is a virus, money is a nasty disease.

We have a show tonight. I've never missed a show. Not even the time I had that virus they kept saying only raccoons get.

Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.

[Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions.

Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses.

Reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis are particularly concerning.

Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.

The problem of viruses is temporary and will be solved in two years.

We need to band together as a unit every day, especially to conquer the strength of the AIDS virus.

Being overly sensitive to rejection can become a destructive virus.

I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure; not for stealing, or causing damage or writing computer viruses.

A strong feeling of adventure is animating those who are working on bacterial viruses, a feeling that they have a small part in the great drive towards a fundamental problem in biology.

Cinder twisted up her lips. "Do you think it could have a virus?" "Maybe her programming was overwhelmed by Prince Kai's uncanny hotness.

We've created life in our own image.

I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.

Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of one, the chances are that you won't know it, and may even vigorously deny it.

An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.

Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer.

Science that fails to embrace all living beings is far more dangerous than any virus!

The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.

My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of thinking in biomedical research.

I wouldn't be worried to sit next to someone with Ebola virus on the Tube as long as they don't vomit on you or something. This is an infection that requires very close contact.

…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.

A virus is not just DNA; a virus is also packaged up, covered over with a series of proteins in a nice, elegant, well-compacted form.

I am much more powerful today than the old programs and mind viruses that I absorbed in my childhood.

Form is the host; content is the virus.

Racism is a virus. And since nobody's really looking too hard for a cure it reproduces itself over and over again.

I think computer viruses should count as life.

Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made.

In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa.

In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses.

Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot of flags. That makes me suspicious.

Humanity is just a virus with shoes.

Of course, screening for HIV did essentially eliminate the transmission of this virus by transfusions.

When people asked him why he didn't work with those viruses, he replied, I don't particularly feel like dying.

To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why I am so hostile to organized religion.

The idea of the live-virus vaccine is to produce in a continuous way some viral antigens.

He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment.