The virus can live on a doorknob for hours and maybe longer.

If the vial broke, he said, the virus could not live in the fish.

It killed the host every time, and the virus could not live outside a living cell.

The potentially fatal virus can live in the body for decades without symptoms.

It's not clear how long the virus lives on a dead bird, but it is unlikely to survive more than a couple of days.

She is capable of doing so, for she knows that the virus still lives within her.

But the increase in cases has offered a definitive answer to the question of whether the virus can live through the winter.

The debate still continued as to whether or not organic viruses were living things.

What here could have helped a virus live that long?

But most scientists say that viruses are not truly living because they cannot reproduce on their own.