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Discover LudwigThe phrase "caught a virus" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means that someone has contracted a viral infection. Example: "I caught a virus while traveling abroad and had to stay home for a week to recover."
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On Veterans Day, it was snowing hard and Hober had caught a virus.
As a 2-year-old, Pleasantly Perfect caught a virus that enlarged the sac around his heart.
She was left on a ventilator after the crash, she caught a virus and that has killed her.
"I'm nothing special, I'm just a nurse doing her job who got unlucky and caught a virus".
The quarterback-as-computer had caught a virus, and the Colts were slowly grinding to a halt.
Emma was on her gap year in Australia, with a place at university to study sport, when she caught a virus.
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Maybe he should be careful about all that human contact: isn't that how someone catches a virus?
A seemingly trivial example is that it's impossible to catch a virus from someone who is not yet infected.
I did not even know how a computer got infected in the first place or how likely mine was to catch a virus.
"[They say] if you go out in the snow without clothes on you'll catch a cold – if you go on to the computer without your clothes on, you'll catch a virus," he said.
However, among known viruses, the giant viruses tend to be very tough and almost impossible to break open". "The possibility that we could catch a virus from a long-extinct Neanderthal suggests that the idea that a virus could be 'eradicated' from the planet is wrong, and gives us a false sense of security," says Claverie.
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