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slow virus

In medicine, one of a group of viruses that cause disorders of the central nervous system and take many years to develop. Gradual and widespread damage of nerve tissue is followed eventually by a loss of brain function and death. Slow viruses are implicated in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and a type of meningitis.
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