And how self-replicating nano-machines had been created, man-made viruses which had one major advantage over their natural counterparts: they could function perfectly well on their own.

One of his passengers may - just may - be infected with a deadly strain of man-made virus.

It is also featured in both parts of the two-part second season finale of Millennium where a man-made virus is threatening to wipe out humanity.

Of the 500 in the all-black group, 18 percent said they believed AIDS was a man-made virus; 9 percent in the general population agreed.

They had wasted the land, preventing the growth of vegetation and introducing man-made viruses the scientists were unable to kill.

Smith plays virologist Robert Neville, who is immune to a man-made virus originally created to cure cancer.

It does not surprise me that many of them honestly believe that H.I.V. is a man-made virus created for the purpose of genocide.

In the process, I found something quite disturbing-not only is the virus man-made, but its designer left a message.

Tests were tried on animals but instead of dying from the disease caused by the rats, they died from the man-made virus introduced into the rodents.

The game takes place in the year 2015, ten years after a deadly man-made virus (Spontaneous Genome Degeneration Syndrome) kills billions across the planet.