It passed through all the filters! So small it passes the filters and kills–poison, toxin. But wait, it can be diluted to lowest possible effective concentration, and then with addition host it grows back to high concentration. What poison does that?
Comment on viruses
Gork@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I found this to be interesting. The word (and concept) of a virus predates its actual discovery by over 500 years.
The English word “virus” comes from the Latin vīrus, which refers to poison and other noxious liquids. Vīrus comes from the same Indo-European root as Sanskrit viṣa, Avestan vīša, and Ancient Greek ἰός (iós), which all mean “poison”. The first attested use of “virus” in English appeared in 1398 in John Trevisa’s translation of Bartholomeus Anglicus’s De Proprietatibus Rerum. Virulent, from Latin virulentus (‘poisonous’), dates to c. 1400. A meaning of ‘agent that causes infectious disease’ is first recorded in 1728, long before the discovery of viruses by Dmitri Ivanovsky in 1892.
Rubisco@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
Sanctus@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I knew iOS was poison
GammaGames@beehaw.org 5 months ago
I can’t find anything on the 1728 claim, but I remember hearing that Louis Pasteur coined the term while studying rabies in the 1880s!
jobby@lemmy.today 5 months ago
So what about ‘Mastercard’?
maculata@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Un-PC, that’s what!
I wonder what they’ll change the name to.
‘Bosspersoncard’