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infect

verb as in pollute, contaminate

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The Yakimovich group "Machine Learning for Infection and Disease" aims to understand the complex network of molecular interactions that is active after the body has been infected with a pathogen.

The bird flu crisis, driven by the H5N1 virus, began several years ago, but ramped up considerably in April when dairy cows started becoming infected.

From Salon

And a vaccine targeting the post-fusion version of the protein wouldn't teach the immune system to attack the virus before it has a chance to infect the body.

Numerous organizations have reported that quarantine centers have not received food, causing infected people to leave and return to their families, increasing the spread risk.

From Salon

They can, however, also infect other organs and cause neurological disorders.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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