infect

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Unlike a virus, the parasite can’t spread directly from animal to animal, and it requires an open wound to infect an animal, Talbot said.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026

Bundibugyo is one of four species or strains of Ebola known to infect humans, named after a mountainous district in Uganda where the first outbreak took place in 2007.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Ebola viruses naturally infect animals – mainly fruit bats – but people can become infected if they come into close contact.

From BBC • May 17, 2026

She did not infect anyone else after her return despite taking two commercial flights in the U.S. when sick and before she was hospitalized in Delaware.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

The dirtiest of all tricks for passive carriage is perpetrated by microbes that pass from a woman to her fetus and thereby infect babies already at birth.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond