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• s  caused by infection or capable of causing infection
• a  easily spread; children catch it from their elders"- Bertrand Russell
  fear is exceedingly infectious
• a  of or relating to infection
  infectious hospital
  infectious disease

• New viruses and drug-resistant bacteria are reversing human victories over infectious disease.
• When we were at the hospital, the head of the infectious disease department was staying overnight for the first three days and sat down with me and said, 'Two weeks ago I had five .
• New viruses and drug-resistant bacteria are reversing human victories over infectious disease.

• infective

• noninfectious

News & Articles

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• Synthetic Biologics to Present at OneMedForum New York 2013
  ROCKVILLE, Md., June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Synthetic Biologics, Inc. (NYSE MKT: SYN), a developer of biologics focused on the prevention and treatment of serious infectious diseases, announced today ...
  June 19, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
• Ardis Dee Hoven, M.D., Inaugurated as 168th President of AMA
  Lexington Infectious Disease Specialist's Work With HIV/AIDS Patients Spurred Her Involvement in Organized Medicine
  June 18, 2013 - Marketwire
• The American Society for Microbiology honors Joshua Obar
  ( American Society for Microbiology ) Joshua Obar, Ph.D., Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Montana State University -- Bozeman, has been honored with a 2013 ICAAC Young Investigator Award for his research on factors affecting the regulation of immunological memory responses to infection.
  June 18, 2013 - EurekAlert!

Quotes

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• Ban Ki-moon in Boston Globe (registration)
  In New York, Ban warned of an "outbreak of infectious diseases that could dwarf today's crisis."
• Joe Torre in San Francisco Chronicle
  Horrible news. It's so sad,Dodgers manager Joe Torre said. "His energy was infectious. It's a big loss. He was a showman and a hot dog, but he won games. He willed himself to do it."
• Julie Gerberding in ABC News
  Is the patient himself highly infectious? Fortunately, in this case, he's probably not,CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding said. "But the other piece is this bacteria is a very deadly bacteria. We just have to err on the side of caution."