infect
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It is possible that one day, he said, someone will use a similar approach to make viral proteins or viruses themselves that infect people and evade vaccine protection or natural immune responses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The resulting 16 novel viruses were created to infect bacteria and pose no threat to people.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Already, mosquito-borne diseases kill more than 1 million people and infect about 700 million worldwide each year.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
The issue is further complicated by bacteriophages, which are viruses that infect bacteria.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
The virus, therefore, could infect the lungs on contact.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
The virus that sparked a global pandemic still regularly infects, disables and kills hundreds of people per week.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
The virus normally infects animals, typically fruit bats, but outbreaks among humans can sometimes start when people eat or handle infected animals.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
The species, named Taczanowskia waska, represents the first known example of a spider mimicking the appearance of a fungus that infects spiders.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026
When E. multilocularis infects a person or animal, it can produce cancer-like cysts in the liver and, in some cases, other organs.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026
Provided that each victim thereby infects on the average more than one new victim, the bacterium will spread, even though the first host happens to die.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
It was reported in July that the outbreak involved four infected workers.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Humans in close contact with infected wildlife, such as wildlife carers and veterinarians, can contract H5N1.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
Fifty-five people have been infected with E. coli or salmonella in connection with the outbreak, the health agency said, including two people who contracted both pathogens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
West Nile virus survives in nature in several types of birds and is transmitted to humans by the bites of mosquitoes that feed on infected birds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Of those women who were infected with AIDS, many had contracted the disease in Port-au-Prince.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
A city-commissioned inspection report found that waste and high temperatures at the warehouse could speed up the breeding of flies capable of infecting wounds in both people and animals, a local NBC affiliate reported, external.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Around 3 a.m. one night, they observed one of their viruses successfully replicating, and infecting and killing bacterial cells.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Before the virus was identified, it spread from herd to herd, infecting cattle and contaminating their surroundings.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026
With hantavirus, the incubation period can take up to six weeks, so people must be isolated for a really long time to ensure they won’t get sick and start infecting others.
From Slate ● May 16, 2026
“Is it not punishment enough that I bear this curse alone? Must I also be blamed for infecting another?”
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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