is infecting
- present progressive of infect (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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"This virus seems to be increasing in the numbers and types of humans it is infecting."
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2024
Even in a season that usually brings a lull in respiratory illnesses, and even with powerful vaccines available, the coronavirus is infecting many Americans and killing at least 1,000 people each week.
From New York Times ● May 5, 2023
A new, highly contagious strain of the virus is infecting birds around the world.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2023
That’s because every person sick with BQ.1.1 is infecting an average of 1.4 other people, while those sick with BA.5 are averaging an infection of less than one other person.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 1, 2022
All the nastiness up at Molledal, all that stinking filth, is infecting the water in the conduit-pipes leading to the reservoir; and the same cursed, filthy poison oozes out on the shore too— Horster.
From An Enemy of the People by Sharp, R. Farquharson (Robert Farquharson)
