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• The question of how the virus probably jumped from bats to infect humans has been a mystery since the start of the outbreak.

• If a nursing-home patient was infected at his home but died in a hospital, it wasn’t counted.

• People may continue to get infected with the virus, but the infections are not as severe.

• It has infected more than 100 million others, and new variants threaten another surge in cases even as vaccines have begun to roll out.

• You just don’t know if they’re infected, so, as difficult as that is, at least this time around, just lay low and cool it.

• While the bats are infected, they shed large quantities of virus that can infect other animals.

• Ebola Reston, it seemed, could infect humans, but never became symptomatic.

• They had to infect the perfectly adequate data with the totally improbable idea of a 400-year-old heirloom elk antler tool.

• But what I think is that this constant wound, that this constant sore, does infect all of our foreign policy.

• Have you wondered how the U.S. managed to infect Iranian computers?

• A very light attack of any of these diseases in one child may infect another fatally.

• One child coming down with scarlet fever, measles, or whooping cough can infect twenty others at an afternoon party.