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  • noun A virus that is particularly powerful or resistant to treatment.

Etymologies

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super- +‎ virus

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Examples

  • We take a crash course in supervirus engineering to find out.

    Boing Boing: February 19, 2006 - February 25, 2006 Archives 2006

  • As one scientist has remarked, "the main thing that stands between the human species and the creation of a supervirus is a sense of responsibility among individual biologists."

    Wired Top Stories 2008

  • "The main thing that stands between the human species and the creation of a supervirus is a sense of responsibility among individual biologists."

    Einstein's Warning: a bioterrorist pandemic worse than a nuclear explosion 2008

  • She also wrote Virus X, a 1962 play featuring a supervirus, and later in 1962 wrote a four-part series called The Monsters with Vincent Tilsley.

    British women writers of TV sf before 1970 nwhyte 2010

  • Because if something like a supervirus, supervolcano, mass-extinction event, nuclear war, socio-economic collapse happens, living in a culvert you buried in the back yard isn't going to help matters much.

    Thoughts on TSHTF wendigomountain 2010

  • Colonel Lanham, who had been making notes on his phone, said, “But it still had to mutate into the supervirus inside the CAs for them to spread it.”

    Bring On the Night Jeri Smith-Ready 2010

  • Five other students and another professor have gotten sick with this supervirus.

    Bring On the Night Jeri Smith-Ready 2010

  • “Two more Sherwood students went to the hospital last night with this chicken pox supervirus.”

    Bring On the Night Jeri Smith-Ready 2010

  • If your brand-new supervirus gets out into the general populous, it could kill billions. ”

    365 tomorrows » 2008 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008

  • •Romantic problems haunt Chuck (NBC, tonight, 8 ET/PT) when he runs into his ex-girlfriend (Jordana Brewster) and discovers she has something to do with a killer supervirus.

    Critic's corner Monday 2008

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