Should we even call computer problems 'viruses' anymore?

We are fixated on viruses. They are in the news, in our vocabulary, in our military arsenal and in our hard drives.
Ebola rages out of control in parts of Africa; in the US, Enterovirus D68 is sending thousands of kids to hospitals in 27 states; going "viral" on the web is the modern version of 15 minutes of fame; and cyberwarfare, in which a computer virus is wielded as a weapon, has become an increasing threat to international security and civilian infrastructure. The US is thought to have used something like a virus against Iran's nuclear weapons program.
The original creators of computer viruses were inspired by the workings of biological viruses. But are these twin threats to humanity really akin to one another? Maneesh Agrawala, a computer scientist and a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur "genius grant" says they are — to a point.
“A biological virus infects a host, self-replicates and then goes out to infect other hosts," he explains. "A computer virus shares that idea. A c