Sentence examples for dead viruses from inspiring English sources

I was under the impression that the flu vaccines contain dead viruses and that it was not possible to catch the flu from the vaccine.

Until recently, the tools of molecular biology were expensive, and few people had access to them — not to mention the ability to resurrect dead viruses or build new ones.

Until recently, the tools of molecular biology were expensive, and few people had access to them not to mention the ability to resurrect dead viruses or build new ones.

Virologist Professor Jonathan Ball, of the University of Nottingham, explains the implications of reanimating dead viruses.

If you take a conventional over-the-counter drug for the common cold, these drugs "work" by reducing the body's ability to create mucus, which simply inhibits the body's own efforts to eliminate the dead viruses from the body.

Such nasal discharges are composed of dead viruses that were killed by the body's defenses, dead white blood cells that were killed as a result of the infection, and a liquid substance known as mucus which the body deploys as a vehicle to remove this dead matter.

The flu shot is a dead virus.

The injectable flu vaccine is inactivated virus (dead virus particles).

The vaccine uses a "noninfectious" form of the virus, he said, declining to discuss whether the vaccine would be using dead virus or an attenuated, or weakened, strain.

"A dead virus cannot be resurrected to cause the flu," Rachel Vreeman, a doctor who has written about medical myths, told the website.

There are two kinds of licensed flu vaccines: an inactivated kind made with dead virus and one prepared with live "attenuated" virus.