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Rommel Posted 11 years ago
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‘Viruses,’ not ‘viruses,’ right?

Isn’t it that viruses, not virus, should have been used instead in the following sentence? Ebola is a killer disease caused by infection with one of the Ebola virus of the family of Filoviridae.
  

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Rommel Isn’t it that viruses, not virus, should have been used instead in the following sentence? Ebola is a killer disease caused by infection with one of the Ebola virus of the family of Filoviridae. Correct.

— CalifJim

  • Rommel Isn’t it that viruses, not virus, should have been used instead in the following sentence?
  • Ebola is a killer disease caused by infection with one of the Ebola virus of the family of Filoviridae.
  • Correct.
  • You found a mistake.
  • CJ
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RommelIsn’t it that viruses, not virus, should have been used instead in the following sentence? Ebola is a killer disease caused by infection with one of the Ebola virus of the family of Filoviridae.
Correct. You found a mistake.

CJ
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Additional minor quibble: I would say "of the family Filoviridae" (no second "of").
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