noun Date: 1954 any of various prions or viruses with a long incubation period between infection and development of a degenerative disease (as scrapie or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease)
SLOW VIRUS
Meaning of SLOW VIRUS in English
Merriam Webster. Explanatory English dictionary Merriam Webster. Толковый словарь английского языка Мерриам-Уэбстер. 2012