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Cyclospora are microscopic parasites that only infect humans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

To investigate the process, researchers compared SARS-CoV-2 with RaTG13, a closely related coronavirus that infects bats but has not been known to infect humans.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026

Infant botulism happens when swallowed spores from the bacterium infect a baby’s large intestine and make a toxin in it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026

Unlike a virus, the parasite can’t spread directly from animal to animal, and it requires an open wound to infect an animal, Talbot said.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026

And the one fear of every rabbit in it is that men are going to find them and infect them with the white blindness.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

It uses a common cold virus that infects chimpanzees that has been genetically modified to make it safe.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 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

The virus normally infects animals, typically fruit bats, but outbreaks among humans can sometimes start when people eat or handle infected animals.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

The species, named Taczanowskia waska, represents the first known example of a spider mimicking the appearance of a fungus that infects spiders.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 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

Those who have been immunized, or have been previously infected, are probably protected against infection “but should still monitor for symptoms,” the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

Dengue is a viral fever caused by the dengue virus, which is transmitted to humans through the bite of infected Aedes mosquitoes.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

People become infected with the illness by consuming food or water that has been contaminated — the infection is not transmitted from person to person.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

"That immunity does not extend to other strains of the virus. That means someone infected by one strain of the virus could still get dengue again if infected by a mosquito carrying another strain."

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

Many were infected; ugly sores dotted the lining, and the stomachs had lacerations and bleeding patches.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

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

Even with this early identification, the outbreak spiraled into the deadliest Ebola epidemic in history, infecting over 28,000 and killing over 11,000.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 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

Now that Americans have mostly deloused themselves, typhus has discovered a new route into us: by infecting eastern North American flying squirrels and then transferring to people whose attics harbor flying squirrels.

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