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uninfected

British  
/ ˌʌnɪnˈfɛktɪd /

adjective

  1. (of a person, wound, etc) not having been contaminated with pathogenic microorganisms

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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We could isolate someone and keep everyone else uninfected.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

He's not up to mischief: these are males that don't bite, and they carry a gut bacteria called Wolbachia, which means when they mate with uninfected females, the eggs won't hatch.

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

Those uninfected by the virus are quarantined to preserve their sound minds.

From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2025

From identifying affected IT systems to decrypting servers, uninstalling non-functional applications, blocking connections, disabling accounts, and restoring uninfected backups, each step can create bottlenecks.

From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2024

The only survivors of the experiment were the two control monkeys—the healthy, uninfected monkeys that lived in cages across the room from the sick monkeys.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

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