infective

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"It is certainly not as infective as say flu or COVID-19, and requires often fairly prolonged close contact before transmission takes place," said Andrew Lee, Professor of Public Health at the University of Sheffield.

From Barron's • Mar. 19, 2026

Mr Golombek described the medical cause of death as "multi organ failure as a result of infective endocarditis and hospital acquired pneumonia".

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2025

CJD is the most prominent of the handful of diseases, all fatal, that result when prions, proteins of uncertain function that are abundant in the brain, misfold into an infective form that spreads widely.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 21, 2024

The disease is rare, however, people with previous valve surgeries, heart valve abnormalities, artificial valves, congenital heart defects or previous infective endocarditis have a greater risk of developing it.

From Science Daily • Dec. 13, 2023

A place that is neither provably sterile nor known to be infective.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston