contaminated
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People can become infected by swallowing tapeworm eggs, such as through food contaminated with coyote or dog feces.
From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026
This organism can cause a rare but extremely deadly brain infection when contaminated water enters the nose, often during swimming or other recreational water activities.
From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2026
Across Nigeria's oil-rich southern Niger Delta, decades of oil spills have left a landscape deeply scarred, with wetlands increasingly coated in crude and contaminated sediment.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
However the strange yeast was able to eat the phenol, meaning that in the future it could help break down the chemical in contaminated environments, the scientists said.
From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026
He published a paper suggesting that perhaps “transformed” cells behaved the same not because they’d become cancerous, but because they’d been contaminated by something—most likely a virus or bacterium—that made them behave similarly.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
