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Bacteria face constant threats from viruses known as phages, which infect bacterial cells and use their machinery to reproduce.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

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

“That tool will allow people to create new variants like Covid that will spread to infect most people,” said Esvelt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

It used to be an acute infection, something that most people could get treated fairly quickly before they had a chance to infect many others.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

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

Engineered pollen blows just as easily as the original kind and infects all traditional plants in its path.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

One particularly important challenge involved detecting the DNA produced by type VI retrons in cells that had not been infected.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

Most of those infected had recently travelled to the DRC.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 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

They use RNA cleanup mechanisms to remove excess RNA, helping infected cells remain functional long enough for viral replication to continue.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

Unlike Civil War surgeons who used antiseptic chemicals after a wound became infected, Lister's goal was to kill microbes in wounds before they caused an infection.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

A city-commissioned inspection report found that waste and high temperatures at the warehouse could speed up the breeding of flies capable of infecting wounds in both people and animals, a local NBC affiliate reported, external.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

On Thursday, federal authorities linked shredded iceberg lettuce from a Mexican supplier for Taco Bell restaurants in five states to the outbreak infecting thousands of people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Rather than primarily infecting the lungs, H5N1 caused severe infections in the udders while leaving the respiratory system largely unaffected.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 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 specific antibodies that we gradually build up against a particular microbe infecting us make us less likely to get reinfected once we become cured.

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