STREET VIRUS Definition & Meaning

street virus

noun

a virus, as rabies, obtained from a naturally infected animal and usually virulent, as opposed to a laboratory-attenuated strain.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of street virus¹

First recorded in 1910–15

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"The high street virus has just taken over," Wright laments.

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If a portion of the brain of an animal dead from street virus is taken and made up in a dilution of one to five hundred, and this is injected, we find that it does not produce death.

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