How to Use infected in a Sentence

infected

adjective
  • The virus can live for up to two hours in the air where the infected person was present.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The infected area may also need to be opened and drained.
    Dr. Roshini Raj, Health, 26 May 2023
  • The team has found two more infected birds since the study ended.
    Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
  • In the video game, Last of Us players kill infected people by the dozen.
    Will Bedingfield, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The injured or infected site gets swollen, red and warm.
    Elana Spivack, Scientific American, 21 June 2023
  • The illness required her to have surgery to remove the infected parts of her spine.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 5 July 2023
  • Trent Pierce had surgery on an infected ear, but returned before the end of the season.
    Calum McAndrew, Kansas City Star, 13 May 2024
  • Dispose of infected cuttings in the trash rather than the compost pile.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Feathers from infected birds are known to carry the H5N1 virus.
    Brenda Goodman, CNN, 16 July 2024
  • The most common way to become infected is to breathe in the infected droplets through your mouth or nose.
    Anna Halkidis, Parents, 16 June 2023
  • In all, the method requires workers to have a high degree of contact with the infected birds, going from bird to bird and batch to batch with the carts.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 17 July 2024
  • The bacteria causes lesions on the leaves, stems and fruit of infected trees.
    J. Scott Trubey, ajc, 14 June 2022
  • Half of the people exposed in one household can become infected, the CDC said.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2024
  • There were no other cases found among close contacts of the infected woman, the WHO said.
    Fox News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Samples of the virus taken from the Texas patient as well as from a handful of infected cows have been sequenced.
    Sara G. Miller, NBC News, 4 Apr. 2024
  • There wasn’t soap to wash our hands between infected wounds with maggots.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 16 May 2024
  • These droplets can remain in the air an hour after an infected person coughs.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 9 July 2024
  • Among them: the Hotel Grand and a series of tunnels and labyrinths in which guests will encounter both the infected and hostile humans.
    Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
  • Farmers are required to dispose of eggs and meat from infected birds.
    Meg Wingerter, The Denver Post, 8 May 2024
  • In both cases, I was exposed while dining with the infected person, who may have been asymptomatic at the time of the meal.
    Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The story goes that during the plagues that swept across Europe in the Middle Ages, Kotor brought a handful of cats into the walled city to kill the infected rats.
    Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 24 Feb. 2024
  • There was one human case last year in the United States, a Colorado man who got sick after culling infected birds.
    Jen Christensen, CNN, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The bacteria can live in the stools of infected people for up to a few weeks, even after their diarrhea has gone away.
    Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The court order goes on to suggest the FBI developed a way to hijack the botnet, and identify the infected routers.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Also, make sure to wipe front to back so that any breaks in the skin do not become infected with bacteria that are pulled forward.
    Ashley Martens, Women's Health, 18 Aug. 2023
  • When an infected or recently sick swimmer takes a dip, oocysts can enter the pool.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 26 Oct. 2023
  • But no matter how diseased, do *not* call the infected zombies.
    Leah Campano, Seventeen, 15 Feb. 2023
  • An infected bite can be red warm or include a red streak spreading outward.
    Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 8 June 2023
  • The uptick in case rates is partially due to the geographic range of infected ticks increasing and putting more people at risk, Labus said.
    Sherri Gordon, Health, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Symptoms in infected animals include high fevers, mouth ulcers and swollen heads.
    Léa Pernelle, Fortune Europe, 21 Oct. 2024

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