pathogen
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“If there was ever a question about whether there was a pathogen in our products,” McAfee later told me, “I’d be the first one to recall immediately, voluntarily.”
From Salon • Jun. 22, 2026
What a strange and humbling thing that the course of human history has been repeatedly upended by this singular pathogen.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
That threat could be a pathogen inside the body or something as simple as a splinter.
From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026
Davji Bhimji Atellah, KMPDU's secretary general, said the union "will not sit back and watch Kenya be treated as a containment colony for a lethal pathogen that we did not generate."
From BBC • May 29, 2026
Most human groups are a scattershot mix of HLA profiles, which means that almost always some people in the group will not get sick when exposed to a particular pathogen.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing pathogen
Common Senses: Path ("Feeling")
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