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viral infection
- An infection caused by a virus . At present, viral infections cannot be treated with antibiotics . ( Compare bacterial infection .)
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Notes
Diseases caused by viral infections include herpes , chicken pox , hepatitis , influenza , and the common cold.
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Example Sentences
School children in the Midwest are being hit by a viral infection that is sending hundreds to the hospital.
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The viral infection sending hundreds of Midwestern kids to the hospital is EV-68, a rather nasty strain of enterovirus.
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But I had a fever, some kind of viral infection, and I was too sick to go.
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Shortened in medical parlance to H. flu, it bears no relation to the viral infection influenza that strikes every winter.
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Measles is a potentially severe viral infection that still kills hundreds of thousands of people worldwide.
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