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infect

verb as in pollute, contaminate

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Seasonal human flu viruses infect millions of people each year.

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She says she was shocked by the response from one doctor during a hospital appointment, after she told him her breast had become infected following a lumpectomy.

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It usually takes a few days from being infected for symptoms to show.

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“That may translate into more people getting infected. And as more people get infected, a proportion of them will go to the hospital,” Chin-Hong said.

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Avian flu infects birds and sometimes other animals, such as foxes, seals and otters.

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