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Examples

  • Climate change could reduce income from farming and fishing, possibly driving some women into sex work and thereby increase HIV infection,

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Friday Funnies, via the UN 2009

  • Immediate measures were instituted to control the infection,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • Apart from increasing the chances of HIV infection,

    ANC Today 2003

  • In caring for both children with AIDS and at times grandchildren, the aged also expose themselves to HIV infection,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • It should be remembered that HIV was a very dangerous infection,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • One had been admitted suffering from "psychiatric problems" and the second was to be treated for a serious eye infection,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

  • There is no time in hell, and each of them was in his own private hell: Roland the hell of the fever and infection,

    The Drawing of the Three King, Stephen, 1947- 1987

  • Dig your own above and below the line of infection,

    Highways in Hiding George Oliver Smith 1946

  • Saddled with a bum knee and the aftermath of a staph infection,

    UFC Press Releases 2010

  • Saddled with a bum knee and the aftermath of a staph infection,

    UFC Press Releases 2010

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