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In a briefing, Satish Pillai, the health agency's Ebola response incident manager, told journalists one American in the DRC had contracted the virus following exposure related "to their work" there.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

County who had contracted measles as an infant died of SSPE, health officials said in September.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

The firm noted in a presentation for its equity strategy last month that the valuations of software companies had contracted significantly during the first quarter.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

As of December 2017, more than a million people had contracted the disease, nearly half of them children, and more than 2,000 had died of the illness.

From Salon • Jul. 20, 2025

This difference in the forces would stretch our astronaut out like spaghetti or tear him apart before the star had contracted to the critical radius at which the event horizon formed!

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking