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infected







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poisoned
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The only contact many children maintain with their infected parents comes through photographs and videos taken by healthcare workers.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

But Bezalel Mfashingabo, 44, a Kenyan flying from Nairobi through Addis Ababa, wasn't too worried because the "infected" are in quarantine in his home country -- and so "there is not much panic".

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

At the war’s end, Mignon escaped to a displaced-persons camp in Bavaria, Germany, where she nearly died of an infected gallbladder and typhus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

The researchers found that argyrin B, a naturally occurring antibacterial substance, was highly effective against C. difficile in laboratory tests and experiments involving infected mice.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

Too many others had let their tattoos get infected, and that had taken them to the camp surgeon.

From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz


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