Infecting

Many of the doctors and nurses sleep at the hospital and avoid going home for fear of inadvertently infecting their families.

“Viruses are very good at disseminating throughout the body,” he said, adding that they’re also adept at hunting, detecting and infecting metastatic tumors.

Gunter accused Rima of infecting many of her co-workers with Covid-19.

A mass of maggots were infecting Gabriel's arm.

One mechanism involves disarming a biological process known as autophagy. Under normal circumstances, autophagy allows cells to sweep away debris, including viruses; but, by suppressing this function, HIV is able to keep on infecting white blood cells, eventually leading to a breakdown of the protective immune system.