The word "infected" is correct and usable in written English. You can use it to refer to a person, animal, or thing that has been infected by a virus, bacteria, or parasite. For example, "The patient had signs of being infected with the flu virus.".
The 29-year-old has returned to Sierra Leone, where he caught the infection, to begin his second spell treating people infected by the virus.
Since the outbreak began in December 2013, 23,969 people in nine countries have been infected with the virus, and 9,807 of them have died, according to the latest figures.
But tellingly, a critical moment was when westerners started to get infected," argues Madden.
"If health workers get infected, they are a conduit out.
By the end of the epidemic in the summer of 2003, 8,096 people had been infected and 774 had died.
With the top two (Lancashire and Surrey) playing out a rain-affected draw in which Gareth Batty, perhaps infected by the battle-fever at the sight of the Red Rose, chose to bat into the third day, Glamorgan seized the chance to close on a promotion slot with a win over Northamptonshire.
His wife, who was also infected, has recovered and became the first in the outbreak to be discharged from the hospital, officials said on Saturday.
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