infected
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More vulnerable species, on the other hand, may have died so quickly after becoming infected that few or no infected individuals were ever collected.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
By disrupting the membrane's stability, it causes the infected cell to die, stopping the viral infection from spreading.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
Others were separated from their families after their parents, infected with the virus, were transferred to Ebola treatment centres.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 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
It’s the words I’ve been afraid of since it first started looking infected.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
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