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infect

in international law, to taint with crime or illegality; to expose to penalty or subject to forfeiture.

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An infected cow's brain, spinal cord, and other nervous-system tissues can carry the disease.

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Furthermore, some strains that use CXCR4 only, such as UG021, could also infect macrophages through the CXCR4 co-receptor.

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In West Africa, for example, Lassa virus infects 100,000 to 300,000 people per year, killing more than 5,000 annually.

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Caffrey adds that it's risky to rely on a single drug against a parasite that infects more than 200 million people.

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Such combination led to infection of pigs, which developed respiratory and neurologic symptoms after indirect exposure to infected fruit bats that shed the virus.

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Once infected with the virus, women are affected differently than men.

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"Billions of chickens in Asia have been infected and millions of people lived with them ...

Flue fears: bird flu has spread rapidly in the last few months, but how serious is the threat to humans?

Asymptomatic, wild birds infected with mild or lethal influenza subtypes can transmit them to humans via intermediate animals such as domestic poultry and pigs.

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In at least one animal that SIV naturally infects, the sooty mangabey, it causes a very high viral load with little immune response, but does not hurt the animal.

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As the disease progresses, infected cattle become very agitated, kicking violently with no provocation.

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They usually infect executable files with these extensions: *.COM, *.EXE, *.DRV, *.DLL, *.BIN, *.OVL and *.SYS.

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It's not a problem unless it can jump from one species to another." And that's precisely what happened in Britain, where a cow-based TSE known as Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), jumped to humans who came in contact with affected cows or ate infected meat.