infected
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Most of those infected had recently travelled to the DRC.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
But Bezalel Mfashingabo, 44, a Kenyan flying from Nairobi through Addis Ababa, wasn't too worried because the "infected" are in quarantine in his home country -- and so "there is not much panic".
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
Shav is a disease that primarily affects cattle and can be spread by infected midges.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
At the war’s end, Mignon escaped to a displaced-persons camp in Bavaria, Germany, where she nearly died of an infected gallbladder and typhus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Chencho’s face around the missing eye was big and swollen as if it were infected.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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