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Can the Virologist use her pair-swap more than once when discovering a cure, and what happens to the cards?

Yes. Each pair of same-coloured cards can stand in for one card of the cure colour, and she can use several pairs in one cure (for example 2 yellow, 2 blue and 3 red to cure red). The pairs are simply discarded instead of the cure-colour cards; nothing returns to hand or deck. It does not work for the purple disease, because purple-cube cities are not purple cards, and in the Lab challenge it applies only to the Discover a Cure action, not Characterize or Test.

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