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Many said a full week of instruction was lost, and technicians found “digital tripwires” left behind to further infect systems.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 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

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

Some are caused by microbes capable of maintaining themselves in animals or in the soil, with the result that the disease doesn’t die out but remains constantly available to infect people.

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

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

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

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

The U.K. also announced sanctions against hackers responsible for Lumma Stealer, malware that sucks up sensitive information from devices it infects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 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

However, Williams advised people to try not to itch bites as they could become infected, and said antihistamine tablets and emollient creams could help.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

The initial 44 contacts were health care workers, while the additional nine comprise more health staff as well as members of the infected woman's family and household staff, Idris said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

Viruses often generate large quantities of RNA as they reproduce inside infected cells.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

At the war’s end, Mignon escaped to a displaced-persons camp in Bavaria, Germany, where she nearly died of an infected gallbladder and typhus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

One of the fishermen had been bitten by a zmeyok years ago, and the bite got infected.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

Before the virus was identified, it spread from herd to herd, infecting cattle and contaminating their surroundings.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 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

Many residents hide sick relatives from health workers, inadvertently infecting themselves through contact with the sweat and blood of the ill.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 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

"The problem is the diseases infecting the city."

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda