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Rabies is a rare but serious viral disease that can infect the brains of both people and animals, according to the California Department of Public Health.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

He goes on to emphasize that what Claude found — a previously uncharacterized enzyme system found in viruses that infect bacteria — isn’t necessarily going to be useful.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

"For reasons we don't understand, HIV really wants to use CCR5 receptors to infect cells," Sacha said.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026

The researchers say the novel viruses can’t infect humans and the technology could ultimately benefit us by protecting people against drug-resistant bacteria.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

This allowed scientists to determine what was required for HIV to infect a cell—an important step toward understanding the virus, and potentially stopping it.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

It’s caused by a bacteria called Yersinia pestis that infects fleas and the small mammals that host fleas, and there are actually three types of plague depending on which part of the body becomes infected.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

Rabies infects very few humans in the United States and California, according to the state public health department.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

However, this practice could act as a superspreader event – where a disease infects an unusually high number of people or animals – of the H5N1 virus.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026

The virus that sparked a global pandemic still regularly infects, disables and kills hundreds of people per week.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 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

Ebola spreads through direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person who has developed symptoms, or through contaminated materials.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

First, though plague is usually fatal without treatment, we have very effective antibiotics, which can also be taken prophylactically by people who came in contact with someone infected.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

The Ebola virus spreads through contact with infected bodily fluids such as blood or vomit.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Officials say the last animal confirmed to have rabies that wasn’t a bat was a skunk infected with the bat strain of rabies in Long Beach in 2014.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

“I know an infected wound when I see it. It’s bad.”

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

Sealing off: Leronlimab blocks what's left of the virus from infecting immune cells -- the equivalent of sealing off the room with a water-tight valve.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026

In an interview with the Reuters news agency, Gaston urged the child and her mother to go to a health centre, as they risked "worsening their health" and "infecting their relatives".

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

Even with this early identification, the outbreak spiraled into the deadliest Ebola epidemic in history, infecting over 28,000 and killing over 11,000.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 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

Now that Americans have mostly deloused themselves, typhus has discovered a new route into us: by infecting eastern North American flying squirrels and then transferring to people whose attics harbor flying squirrels.

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