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		Definition of slow virus in English: slow virusnoun A virus or virus-like organism that multiplies slowly in the host organism and has a long incubation period.  Example sentencesExamples -  Eventually, they identify kuru as a brain-affecting slow virus.
 -  These diseases in the recent past were called slow virus diseases.
 -  Modern epidemics of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE, Mad Cow's disease) are attributed to the slow virus contamination of human brain tissue by using animal cultures in grafts and drug products.
 -  ‘Maybe it's like the turtle and the hare,’ he says, and the slow virus will eventually win.
 -  They have been called slow virus diseases but are now known not to be caused by viruses.
 
    Definition of slow virus in US English: slow virusnoun A virus or virus-like organism that multiplies slowly in the host organism and has a long incubation period.  Example sentencesExamples -  ‘Maybe it's like the turtle and the hare,’ he says, and the slow virus will eventually win.
 -  Eventually, they identify kuru as a brain-affecting slow virus.
 -  Modern epidemics of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE, Mad Cow's disease) are attributed to the slow virus contamination of human brain tissue by using animal cultures in grafts and drug products.
 -  These diseases in the recent past were called slow virus diseases.
 -  They have been called slow virus diseases but are now known not to be caused by viruses.
 
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