He got really sick after catching some kind of virus from a co-worker.
They got some kind of computer virus which deleted all the data on their hard drive.
The old man came down with viral pneumonia, and died soon after.
HIV is the virus which is believed to cause
AIDS.
What we call the flu is actually a number of different viruses, each one slightly different from the other.
The "I Love You" virus caused a lot of problems for computer users around the world.
She caught some kind of terrible virus, and was sick for months.
An
AIDS sufferer once remarked, "Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable."
There are more than 100 different viruses that cause the common cold.
In May 2000, China toughened its regulations against computer viruses, mandating
fines, and up to five years imprisonment for people who spread them.
A quarter of the horses in the United States died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.
Experts suggest that about 1,200 computer viruses are in circulation at any given moment.
Marian Edelman has remarked that lack of moral purpose is a more dangerous virus than influenza for millions of the world's children.
Scientists tell us that kissing rarely transmits colds because the cold viruses do not live comfortably in the mouth.
Antibiotics are effective against bacteria only, and have no effect on viruses.
Polio is a viral disease that can lead to paralysis.
Vic Lebouthillier once said that emotions spread like viruses.
Any 1 of 1000 different viruses can cause the common cold.
Discussion question: Have you ever been the victim of a computer virus?
Find someone who has caught a virus in the past six months.