Sentence examples for infecting someone from inspiring English sources

In his view, a single spore has a chance, however small, of infecting someone.

There are also logistical difficulties in successfully infecting someone: the bacteria is fragile and requires warm, moist conditions, so would not survive for long in a water bottle, particularly one that was refrigerated, Croft added.

The vaccine can also mean not getting sick and then infecting someone who might not recover so easily.

The HIV-1 epidemic in Slovenia is mainly driven by homosexual intercourse and through local transmission, where eighty percent of patients have an identified local transmission link (meaning either being infected by someone or infecting someone locally).

Intentionally infecting someone's computer with a virus is illegal in most countries.

Although momentary acts or behaviors can lead to getting infected (or infecting someone else), socially-embedded and socially-meaningful patterns of behavior (such as trying to maintain respectability in the eyes either of non-user relatives or of "righteous dope fiends") involve long-term maintenance of safer (or riskier) behaviors.

It only takes 18 to 100 microscopic virus particles to infect someone.

The anthrax attacks also pointed to another scientific mystery: how many spores does it take to infect someone?

Measles and Polio set out on an adventure to infect someone after the C.D.C. considers measles eradicated in the United States.

If you're unlucky, the bugs get out and the disease spreads – through your lungs (and you start coughing up droplets with bacilli in, ready to infect someone else), through your whole body, even getting into your bones.

Because touching the vaccination site or the bandage can infect someone else with the vaccinia virus, potential donors cannot live with anyone at high risk for complications -- anyone pregnant, under 1 year old, with unexplained rashes or with a weakened immune system.