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  • noun virology Any of a genus of viruses whose members infect animals and whose genome consists of a single-strand of RNA.

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Examples

  • Later, when we had conclusive evidence that a new coronavirus is the cause of the disease, we named it the SARS virus. '' posted by sydney on

    Medpundit 2003

  • Later, when we had conclusive evidence that a new coronavirus is the cause of the disease, we named it the SARS virus. '' posted by sydney on

    Archive 2003-05-01 2003

  • A member of the WHO team, Wolfgang Preiser, reiterated previous statements from researchers that the coronavirus is the "likeliest" cause of SARS.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • Putting all the pieces together, scientists now presume that bats infected with a SARS-like coronavirus were brought into the marketplace, where they came in contact with civets.

    Disease-Hunting Scientists: Jonathan Epstein and the search for SARS ewillett 2009

  • More than 200 known viruses and other pathogens can cause the suite of symptoms known as “influenza-like illness”; respiratory syncytial virus, bocavirus, coronavirus, and rhinovirus are just a few of the bugs that can make a person feel rotten.

    Does the Vaccine Matter? 2009

  • The lab results revealed four or five different viruses within the bats, all within the SARS coronavirus family.

    Disease-Hunting Scientists: Jonathan Epstein and the search for SARS ewillett 2009

  • More than 200 known viruses and other pathogens can cause the suite of symptoms known as “influenza-like illness”; respiratory syncytial virus, bocavirus, coronavirus, and rhinovirus are just a few of the bugs that can make a person feel rotten.

    Does the Vaccine Matter? 2009

  • More than 200 known viruses and other pathogens can cause the suite of symptoms known as “influenza-like illness”; respiratory syncytial virus, bocavirus, coronavirus, and rhinovirus are just a few of the bugs that can make a person feel rotten.

    Does the Vaccine Matter? 2009

  • Scientists soon realized that SARS was caused by a new strain of coronavirus, the same kind of virus that causes many other upper respiratory infections, including the common cold.

    Disease-Hunting Scientists: Jonathan Epstein and the search for SARS ewillett 2009

  • There can between 150 and 200 different infectious pathogens -- adenovirus, rhinovirus, parainfluenza, the very common coronavirus and, of course, pneumonia -- that produce flu-like symptoms, and worse, during a "flu season."

    Government Launches Deceptive Swine Flu Propaganda Blitz To Counter Growing Criticism from Scientific and Medical Commun 2009

  • The term “coronavirus” was coined in 1968 by a group of virologists who wrote to Nature magazine to describe a family of viruses that, under a microscope, look like balls with a “characteristic ‘fringe’ of projections […] which are rounded or petal shaped”, and so reminded them of the sun’s corona (from the Latin for “crown”).

    From 'alert' to 'zoom': Steven Poole's lexicon of lockdown Steven Poole 2020

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  • This entry could do with updating to mention COVID-19 - at least in Examples

    August 31, 2021

  • What's COVID-19?

    September 1, 2021

  • Sorry. As I have not been vaccinated against sarcasm, an overflux of same meant I did not point out that the Examples are automatically generated.

    September 1, 2021