The word "infects" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it as a verb to mean "contaminating or invading (a person, tissue, etc.) with a pathogen, especially a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism." For example, you could say, "The virus quickly spread, infecting thousands of people."
If every infected person infects, in turn, more than one other, the epidemic spreads rapidly.
Knowing how they first spread to people may help to stop the same thing happening again.Two papers published recently in Science have helped to pinpoint the origin of malaria the most lethal tropical infection until AIDS came on the scene, and a disease that still infects 200m-300m people a year, killing over 1m of them.
Fox News would be a popular fringe network, not the reliable conduit by which paranoid hogwash infects our mainstream media.
It has never been tried.Ebola infects everything.
The tolerant and broadminded attitude of Sheikh Rashed (what other Arab ruler would lay the foundation stone of a Protestant church?) infects the life of his state.
The project was to find bacteriophages (a type of virus that infects bacteria, not people) that could be genetically engineered to bind to inorganic materials that they would not normally have an affinity for in particular, semiconductors.
They do, however have 76 mutations which match ones found in a form of tuberculosis that infects seals and sea lions.
Unlike falciparum, vivax infects only the youngest red blood cells, those freshly emerged from bone marrow.
Roy Ramos, an analyst at Goldman Sachs, points out that in less than ten months China added the equivalent of India's banking industry twice over.The government is now working hard to ensure that the lending spree does not cause a bad-debt problem that infects the banks (which it had to recapitalise just under a decade ago).
The reason is that a virus relies for its growth and reproduction on the metabolic processes of the cell it infects.
But unlike foot and mouth, Q-fever infects people.
