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The word 'infect' is correct and can be used in written English
You can use it when you want to describe how a virus, disease, or other bad thing has spread from one person or thing to another. Example: The flu quickly infected the entire school, leaving all the students and faculty feeling ill.
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infect
verb
To bring into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen).
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And as we start connecting everything we touch to networks, the risks will rise by orders of magnitude – especially as criminals and governments infect and alter everyday devices.
My greatest fear is that the virus will mutate next year, to enable it to infect older people.
Of the Asda chickens sampled 28% were in this bracket which the FSA considers most likely to infect consumers.
Ebola is not efficient in humans because it quickly kills its host, usually before it has had a chance to infect large numbers of people, unlike flu, for instance.
What she found most humbling in his work was his analysis of the degrading effect of the shame and humiliation, which infect coloniser and colonised alike.
"By taking blood samples, we can play around with the virus and work out what changes would need to be made in order for it to infect cells from the partner.
Other similar malware uses networks to infect industrial targets, which, as we've learned, are all too vulnerable.
The test allows doctors to read out a list of the viruses that have infected, or continue to infect, patients even when they have not caused any obvious symptoms.
In total, they carried proteins from more than 1000 strains of the 206 kinds of viruses known to infect people.
Exposed coral skeleton provides an entry point for pathogens to infect, leading to spreading tissue loss.
They therefore reasoned that if they could burst the balloon prematurely, they would have a way of destroying HIV before it could infect anything a potentially powerful treatment.
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