Example Sentences

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Instead of only infecting fellow birds, the current outbreak is infecting dairy cows.

From Salon • Apr. 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

Scientists have since been watching for any signs that this bovine flu is infecting humans, as flus from birds and pigs sometimes do.

From Scientific American • Apr. 24, 2023

A new, highly contagious strain of the virus is infecting birds around the world.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2023

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)