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Does HIV cause AIDS? Can a virus cause a syndrome? How? It can't, because a syndrome is a group of diseases resulting from acquired immune deficiency.
Thabo Mbeki

Can HIV lead to AIDS? Is it possible for a virus to cause a collection of illnesses due to weakened immunity? It is not, as such conditions are the result of immunodeficiency.
Authors on Viruses Quotes: Carl Zimmer William S. Burroughs Stephen Hawking Nathan Wolfe Luc Montagnier Laurie Glimcher Richard Dawkins Jean-Charles de Castelbajac Thom Yorke James Lovelock Walter Gilbert John McAfee Margaret Chan Richard Preston Henry Miller Anthony S. Fauci Peter Boghossian Luis Alberto Urrea Wayne Pacelle Jill Lepore Christian McKay Nikki Sixx Phil Gingrey Robert Herjavec Seth Berkley Michael C. Burgess Ashton Kutcher Kevin Mitnick David Nabarro Francis Crick Thabo Mbeki Jonathan Barnbrook Bill Hicks
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If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.
Prince Philip

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To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement.... Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus.
Philip K. Dick

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The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation.
Margaret Chan

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Pseudoscience is like a virus. At low levels, it's no big deal, but when it reaches a certain threshold it becomes sickening.
Phil Plait

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Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.
Charles Fourier

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Dance music is like a virus, it has affected so many different genres.
Avicii

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With 30,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations from the seasonal flu, those numbers are certainly higher than what we've seen of the swine flu. Protecting yourself from both viruses is very important.
Kristi Yamaguchi

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Images contaminate us like viruses.
Paul Virilio

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The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus.
Joshua Lederberg

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It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid - usually by DNA, although certain small viruses use RNA as their genetic material.
Francis Crick

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With the absence of a flu vaccination last year, I did not take a flu shot; but there is still some immunity that carries over from year to year; but about every 30 years, there is a major change in the genetics of the flu virus.
Michael C. Burgess

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Language is a virus, money is a nasty disease.
Jonathan Barnbrook

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Language is a virus from outer space.
William S. Burroughs

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The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting a single living entity capable of maintaining the Earth's atmosphere to suit its overall needs and endowed with faculties and powers far beyond those of its constituent parts.
James Lovelock

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We have a show tonight. I've never missed a show. Not even the time I had that virus they kept saying only raccoons get.
LIZ

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Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.
Dan Brown

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My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.
William S. Burroughs

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The HiiiPower Movement is a movement that's going on all throughout the world like a virus. It's about being on a higher level than the industry. It's a movement we started to be above all the bullshit that's been going on.
Kendrick Lamar

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Our examination of computer viruses leads us to the conclusion that they are very close to what we might define as "artificial life." Rather than representing a scientific achievement, this probably represents a flaw in our definition.
Gene Spafford

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Reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis are particularly concerning.
Phil Gingrey

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If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life on our planet - microorganisms like bacteria and viruses.
Nathan Wolfe

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The problem of viruses is temporary and will be solved in two years.
John McAfee

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Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.
Alan Moore

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Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you, its first order of business is to preserve itself, and the way it preserves itself is to keep you from having any doubts, and the way it keeps you from doubting is to blind you to the way things really are. Evidence contrary to the belief can be staring you straight in the face, and you won't see it... True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
Philip Caputo

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We need to band together as a unit every day, especially to conquer the strength of the AIDS virus.
Dustin Hoffman

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Being overly sensitive to rejection can become a destructive virus.
Robert Herjavec

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Cinder twisted up her lips. "Do you think it could have a virus?" "Maybe her programming was overwhelmed by Prince Kai's uncanny hotness.
Marissa Meyer

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An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.
James Lovelock

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I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.
Jonas Salk

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We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking

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I'm the founder of the McAfee Anti-Virus Software Company. Although I have had nothing to do with this company for over 15 years, I still get volumes of mail asking 'how do I uninstall this software'. I have no idea.
John McAfee

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There are many different causes of the scarring. Viruses are common. Hepatitis B, hepatitis C, what we call autoimmune diseases where the body attacks the liver itself such as primary biliary cirrhosis is an autoimmune disease; sclerosing cholangitis is an autoimmune disease; and so those diseases where the liver is being destroyed by either the virus or an autoimmune disease, it can only scar, and why it doesn't regenerate has to do with the fact that there is this ongoing scar tissue that blocks that regeneration.
John Roberts

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Science that fails to embrace all living beings is far more dangerous than any virus!
Steve Simmons

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The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.
Kary Mullis

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The modern diet is grossly deficient in hundreds of important plant-derived immunity-building compounds which makes us highly vulnerable to viruses, infections and disease.
Joel Fuhrman

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I wouldn't be worried to sit next to someone with Ebola virus on the Tube as long as they don't vomit on you or something. This is an infection that requires very close contact.
Peter Piot

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If the structure that serves as a template (the gene or virus molecule) consists of, say, two parts, which are themselves complementary In structure, then each of these parts can serve as the mould for the production of a replica of the other part, and the complex of two complementary parts thus can serve as the mould for the production of duplicates of itself.
Linus Pauling

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A virus is not just DNA; a virus is also packaged up, covered over with a series of proteins in a nice, elegant, well-compacted form.
Francis Collins

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…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.
John Irving

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Racism is a virus. And since nobody's really looking too hard for a cure it reproduces itself over and over again.
Marita Golden

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Form is the host; content is the virus.
Jeff Noon

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I think computer viruses should count as life.
Stephen Hawking

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As every new breed of virus is conceived, created and released into the wild, another small change is made to the anti-virus software to combat the new threat.
Glenn Turner

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Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made.
Craig Venter

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In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa.
Claudio Hummes

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Nuclear weapons need large facilities, but genetic engineering can be done in a small lab. You can't regulate every lab in the world. The danger is that either by accident or design, we create a virus that destroys us.
Stephen Hawking

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National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.
Tariq Ramadan

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Laughter is a virus that infects you with humanity.
Luis Alberto Urrea

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When you get sick with the flu you get infected with flu viruses and they make lots of new flu viruses, but those new viruses are not exact copies of the old ones. They have mutations in them. A lot of those mutations are harmful.
Carl Zimmer