Anohni

Women are women, and so are men, and the delusion that we are spiritually separate from or are about to spiritually separate from the rest of existence is a psychosis that spins us into virulence.

English Musician

Henry Mayhew

In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity.

English Journalist

Charlie Sykes

Unless you have experienced it, it's difficult to describe the virulence of the Twitter storms that were unleashed on Trump skeptics.

American

Use 'virulence' to describe how aggressive an illness is, focusing on its capability to cause damage.

Disease Severity

Don't confuse 'virulence' with how easily a disease spreads, which is 'contagiousness' or 'infectivity'.

Not Contagiousness

'Virulence' is often used in a technical or academic sense to express a quantitative measure of harm.

Objective Measure

'Virulence' conveys a strong negative emotion or hostility present in someone's behavior.

Emotional Intensity

The term carries negative connotations - use it to describe intense negative behaviors or attitudes.

Negative Connotation

'Virulence' in human behavior refers to emotional aggression, not physical violence.

Not Physical

 then everybody responds to the vote and what's important for today's talk is that we know that there are hundreds of behaviors that bacteria carry out in these collective fashions but the one that's probably the most important to you is virulence so it's not like a couple bacteria to get in you and then they start secreting some toxins you're

Quorum sensing: Bacteria...

 They vote with these chemical votes, the vote gets counted, and then everybody responds to the vote. What's important for today's talk is we know there are hundreds of behaviors that bacteria carry out in these collective fashions. But the one that's probably the most important to you is virulence.

Bonnie Bassler: The...

 votes the vote gets counted and then everybody responds to the vote and what's important for today's talk is that we know that there are hundreds of behaviors that bacteria carry out in these collective fashions but the one that's probably the most important to you is virulence so it's not like a

Virulence

Disease Severity

Not Contagiousness

Objective Measure

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