supervirus
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supervirus (plural superviruses)
- A virus that is particularly powerful or resistant to treatment.
- 1997, Maggie Ferguson, Fever rising:
- Dr. Ross's supervirus sounded a lot like the virus they had been dealing with.
- 2005, Joshua David Bellin, Framing monsters: fantasy film and social alienation:
- Shortly thereafter, a supervirus destroys nearly all human life on earth, driving the few survivors underground.
- 2008, Deirdre Day-MacLeod, Viruses and Spam:
- Even more amazing is the idea that the next supervirus could be created as easily by a high school student as it could by a computer scientist.
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supervirus m (plural supervirus)
- (virology) supervirus
- 2011 December 7, Sandrine Cabut, “La création d'un supervirus fait polémique”, in Le Monde:
- Les chercheurs ont abouti au supervirus en effectuant quelques mutations sur des souches de virus H5N1, puis en les injectant à des furets, une espèce aussi sensible que l’homme aux virus grippaux.
- Researchers have created a supervirus by making mutations to the H5N1 strain and injecting them into ferrets, a species as susceptible as humans to the flu virus.