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The owner of the veterinary clinic arrived at work at 6:30 a.m. and found the dog, which was “extremely malnourished,” infested with fleas and missing a tooth, Spitzer said.

Within days the whole nursery had become infested.

Toynbee documented their movement to suburbs, with the cities becoming predictably poorer, “infested with slums.”

Isra says she and her siblings were sometimes sleeping four to a room and that the places they were housed in were often infested with rats.

If that makes you a little sick, if the whole thing feels a little unclean, that’s only because the internet has become a nauseous, infested place.