"human infection" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe when a person has been infected by a virus or bacteria. For example: "The flu is a common human infection that can spread quickly."
Hamsters infected with WNV have modeled aspects of the human infection and neurological disease.
As of midweek, there had been no reported cases of human infection in Nassau or Suffolk.
The daily newspaper Labour told readers that no new cases of human infection had been registered.
A simulation of a human infection was organised in Lyons.
While California reported a human infection, the virus had not appeared in the region's wildlife until now.
Still, Mr. Thompson said there was no evidence that the mutated virus was better adapted to human infection.
When present in food, the bug can be killed by cooking, but lapses in hygiene can result in human infection.
Although the city has experienced no cases of human infection this year, health officials said 17 mosquito samples and one bird tested positive for the virus.
Direct contact with infected poultry, or surfaces and objects contaminated by their feces, is now considered the main route of human infection, the World Health Organization says.
Test results will not be confirmed until later this week, but positive results would mark the first human infection in Florida.
Seven cases of human infection have been reported so far this year -- six in New York and one in New Jersey -- with no deaths.
