Word: virality
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...they had turned the trick with a coated capsule that bypasses the respiratory system and releases a dried and purified version of the live virus in the intestine, where it multiplies and starts antibody production. The virus, called adenovirus Type 4, causes a severe, grippe-like illness, and sometimes viral pneumonia, especially among raw recruits in military camps...
...Americans; there was not a single casualty among the 4,300 Vietnamese there. It was early afternoon when details about the Pleiku disaster arrived in Washington. Until nearly nightfall, President Johnson stayed on the phone with his security advisers, among them Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, home in bed with viral pneumonia...
...most of its victims, the cold sore that breaks out on the lips is an annoying, repetitive sign of a not too serious infection. But unlike its more benign viral cousins that cause the common cold, the herpes simplex virus that produces cold sores or fever blisters can in rare instances cause blindness, if it spreads to the eye, and death, if it reaches the brain. For years medical researchers have unsuccessfully attempted to concoct a herpes vaccine that would provide immunity...
...called because it was first recognized as a distinct virus-caused disease, different from the many other forms of viral encephalitis, in the 1933 epidemic that raged around St. Louis, when more than 1,130 people became ill and 201 died...
...glands are overactive. Where the "not-self" or foreign proteins come from to start this process is not certain, but the likeliest source is the original virus, acting on lymph cells. And Dr. Dameshek notes that in three familiar diseases definitely known to be caused by viruses-German measles, viral pneumonia and poliomyelitis-there is occasionally a temporary autoimmune phase with blood-cell destruction...