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Ask your GP??

This is a little vague. If you asked how do you know if i have an influenza virus, HPV, Symplex, pox or HIV I may have been able to help you.

Or if you susspect you have the H5N1 strain or a particularly topical virus, you find out with a bullet through the head.

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this can be achieved by observing it getting multiplied... only living things can multiply, replicate, or reproduce!!

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