Epidemic
Epidemic noun - A widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time.
Virus and epidemic are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Virus" instead a noun "Epidemic".
Nearby Words: epidemical, epidemically
Virus
Virus noun - (virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein.
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Epidemic and virus are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Epidemic" instead a noun "Virus".
Nearby Word: viral
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In season 3, hundreds of people are infected with the virus, although a city nation-wide epidemic is averted.
Source: You Can't Thwart Stage One - Worse, the nano-virus in his blood is being damaged by Snake's aging, and unless he kills himself long before he dies "naturally," the virus will lose its ability to differentiate between the people it was coded to kill and the people it was not, meaning Snake will cause an epidemic.
Source: Awful Truth -
One hominem character who's too old for that theory to apply thinks that said virus might have caused this mutation in more isolated cases before the epidemic.
Source: Human Subspecies
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