Virus and Plague

I have a friend in the medical profession. She's bothered by the fact that I call my latest illness the "Viral Death Plague of Doom." Not because it sounds, well, far more serious than it was, but because, "The Plague was not caused by a virus!" Be that as it may, since the doctor couldn't be fit to give me a name for it, I shall continue with the misnomer of Viral Death Plague...of Doom.