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Already, mosquito-borne diseases kill more than 1 million people and infect about 700 million worldwide each year.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

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

Three major Ebola viruses are known to infect humans, and researchers believe fruit bats are the natural source.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 22, 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

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

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

It normally infects animals, typically fruit bats, but outbreaks among humans can sometimes start when people handle infected animals.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

The parasite commonly infects coyotes, foxes, and other canids.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026

The contagion is typically found in rodents and rarely infects humans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 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

While rarely fatal, Lyme disease can cause rashes and flu-like symptoms among people who are bitten by an infected tick, and in some cases neurological problems.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

Adults born in Ukraine, Romania, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Albania, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Czechia or Slovakia are particularly urged to test, as some may have been infected through medical or dental procedures before 1991.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

Public health officials are investigating after a person spent 11 hours at Universal Studios Hollywood while infected with the measles, possibly exposing other parkgoers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

“When a strain is less virulent, as in the case of the Bundibugyo strain, infected people feel sick, but not sick enough to be bedridden or abandon their daily routines.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

We were led through another twisting passage before arriving at the TB department: a series of cells crowded with infected inmates.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

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

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

From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 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

The ones causing the epidemic to grow — the ones who were infecting two and three and four and five others with their disease — were the remaining 168.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell