Resistance to its arrival in Washington was so virulent that a filmmaker made a documentary called The Uber Wars.
While it is certainly capable of finding new entry points, it's unlikely to be as virulent.
The answer was by making senators stay regardless of how they voted as Kentucky Republican Rand Paul, a virulent opponent of NSA surveillance, torpedoed any attempt to kick the can down the road.
But this recent era of expanded criminalisation and virulent homophobia has been another gift from the west, this time from the United States.
So much of politics in the past four years has been about the people who care passionately, whether in support of one party or in virulent hatred for them all.
In one extreme example, the South Wales Echo claimed that Winterval was the result of "virulent attacks on religion by atheists", which had led to "new rules such as Christmas being renamed as "Winterval".
Lake Oku's clawed frogs have tested positive for chytrid (short for chytridiomycosis), a virulent disease caused by the fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis.
But they are more virulent than the economic afflictions that sap growth in the north of Italy.
Some leaders are resorting to more virulent Islamist language in order to fend off the charge of truckling to Israel.
Not least, because perhaps half his own MPs are, at the least, ready to be convinced by the insurgent party's virulent Europhobia.
Radiocarbon dating of these skeletons suggested that their owners had perished between 1028 and 1280.One hypothesis about the origin of New World tuberculosis is that the first Americans actually did bring a version of the disease with them, but that the strain was so mild it was later swamped by the virulent form endemic in Europe.
