1.   First, it often occurs after a generally innocuous viral disease.

2.   The rare perennial maize proved to be resistant to seven viral diseases that plague domesticated maize.

3.   Trials of interferon in viral disease have certainly met with some success.

4.   There has also been continued success in the development of compounds for the treatment of specific viral diseases.

5.   Our interests in biomedical technology extend beyond platinum-based cancer chemotherapy to areas such as the treatment of specific viral diseases and advanced medical diagnostics.

6.   Although vaccines can prevent viral infections, drugs do not cure any viral disease the way antibiotics can cure some bacterial infections.

7.   And they have found that the vole - already linked to two other viral diseases, nephropathia epidemica and Korean hemorrhagic fever - harbors several previously unidentified viruses.

8.   Antibiotics are useless against smallpox because it is a viral disease, so treatment for victims before eradication consisted mostly of making patients comfortable and protecting others from them.

9.   Before Prusiner came along, CJD and its relatives were assumed to be viral diseases.