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Scientists may eventually be able to design customized immune receptors that detect several fungal effectors simultaneously, potentially making plants more difficult for pathogens to infect.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 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

The researchers say the novel viruses can’t infect humans and the technology could ultimately benefit us by protecting people against drug-resistant bacteria.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

But only rarely, fortunately, does one of them infect one of us and cause this dread disease.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

The other forms of plague are bubonic, which infects the lymph nodes, and septicemic, which is transmitted in the bloodstream and is also very deadly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 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

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

The report is also critical of the way hospital patients who may be infected with Covid were moved to care homes to make space for others.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

The researchers found that argyrin B, a naturally occurring antibacterial substance, was highly effective against C. difficile in laboratory tests and experiments involving infected mice.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

Neighbouring Uganda recorded 20 people infected, almost all of whom had travelled from the neighbouring DRC, and two deaths, before being declared Ebola-free in August.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

Cold computer speak has infected everyone like a virus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

She limps when she walks, and sometimes her foot gets infected when she stands in one place for too long.

From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate

Sealing off: Leronlimab blocks what's left of the virus from infecting immune cells -- the equivalent of sealing off the room with a water-tight valve.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026

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

“We need to get sick people out of their communities as fast as we can. We are doing our best to work with local leaders; otherwise, they will continue infecting others,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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

I can only explain the scientific mania that overtook my father during that spring of ’59 as a symptom of the belief in progress that was infecting everyone back then.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides