- bug
- disease
- epidemic
- flu
- pollution
- virus
- contagion
- corruption
- defilement
- germs
- impurity
- poison
- communicability
- contagiousness
- insanitation
- septicity
- what’s going around
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So even though cases overall grew, hospitalizations and deaths were down — and that makes sense because younger people are more likely to experience mild or symptom-free infections.
THE NEW COVID-19 CASE SURGE IN EUROPE, EXPLAINEDJULIA BELLUZSEPTEMBER 17, 2020VOX
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WORDS RELATED TO INFECTION
- bacillus
- disease
- germ
- infection
- microbe
- virus
- contagion
- corruption
- decay
- defilement
- dirtying
- disease
- epidemic
- filth
- foulness
- impurity
- infection
- pestilence
- plague
- poisoning
- pollution
- radioactivation
- rottenness
- spoliation
- taint
- debasement
- decay
- defilement
- distortion
- doctoring
- falsification
- foulness
- infection
- noxiousness
- pollution
- putrefaction
- putrescence
- rot
- rottenness
- Cancer
- ache
- affection
- attack
- blight
- breakdown
- bug
- canker
- collapse
- complaint
- condition
- contagion
- contamination
- convulsions
- debility
- decrepitude
- defect
- disorder
- distemper
- endemic
- epidemic
- feebleness
- fever
- fit
- flu
- hemorrhage
- ill health
- illness
- indisposition
- infection
- infirmity
- inflammation
- malady
- misery
- pathosis
- plague
- seizure
- sickliness
- sickness
- spell
- stroke
- syndrome
- temperature
- unhealthiness
- unsoundness
- upset
- virus
- visitation
- aches
- affections
- attacks
- blight
- breakdowns
- bugs
- cancers
- cankers
- collapses
- complaints
- conditions
- contagions
- contaminations
- convulsions
- debilities
- decrepitude
- defects
- disorders
- distemper
- endemics
- epidemics
- feebleness
- fevers
- fits
- flu
- hemorrhages
- ill healths
- illnesses
- indispositions
- infections
- infirmities
- inflammations
- maladies
- miseries
- pathoses
- plagues
- seizures
- sicklinesses
- sicknesses
- spells
- strokes
- syndromes
- temperatures
- unhealthinesses
- unsoundnesses
- upsets
- viruses
- visitations
- affliction
- ailment
- disease
- disorder
- illness
- infection
- malady
- paint
- testiness
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infection
Infection is frequently confused with contagion, even by medical men. The best usage now limits contagion to diseases that are transmitted by contact with the diseased person, either directly by touch or indirectly by use of the same articles, by breath, effluvia, etc. Infection is applied to diseases produced by no known or definable influence of one person upon another, but where common climatic, malarious, or other wide-spread conditions are believed to be chiefly instrumental.
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infectionnoun
the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms
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infectionnoun
(phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound
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infectionnoun
(medicine) the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease
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infection, contagion, transmissionnoun
an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted
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transmission, contagious disease, transmittance, contagion, transmittal, transmitting, transmission system -
contagion, infectionnoun
the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people
«a contagion of mirth»; «the infection of his enthusiasm for poetry»
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infectionnoun
moral corruption or contamination
«ambitious men are led astray by an infection that is almost unavoidable»
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infectionnoun
(international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure
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contagion, transmission
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Adam Kamradt-Scott:
In most cases though, because their body has developed an immune response to the first infection, the second infection is usually less severe.
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Keir Starmer:
I am putting the prime minister on notice that he has got to get a grip and restore public confidence in the government’s handling of the epidemic, if we see a sharp rise in the R rate, the infection rate … responsibility for that falls squarely at the door of No 10. We all know the public have made huge sacrifices. This mismanagement of the last few weeks is the responsibility of the government.
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Kim Jong:
If he is merely trying to avoid infection, it should theoretically be very easy to release photos or videos of a healthy-looking Kim.
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Richard Webby:
We’re struggling a little bit by the perception that flu is not really a deadly disease, which of course we know it is, perhaps the healthy adults are at a fairly small risk of getting a very very severe flu infection, but if they do get infected, they’re potentially still infecting others. And how many people in that age group have young kids or have elderly parents ?
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Peter Hotez:
We think long-haul symptoms are not due to active virus infection, but to prolonged inflammatory responses to the virus.
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- عدوىArabic
- añataAymara
- заражэнне, зараза, інфекцыяBelarusian
- зараза, инфекцияBulgarian
- infeccióCatalan, Valencian
- nákaza, infekceCzech
- infektionDanish
- Infektion, AnsteckungGerman
- λοίμωξηGreek
- infektoEsperanto
- infecciónSpanish
- infekzioBasque
- tarttuminen, infektio, tartuntaFinnish
- infectionFrench
- זיהוםHebrew
- ինֆեկցիաArmenian
- infectionInterlingua
- sýkingIcelandic
- infezioneItalian
- 伝染, 感染, 感化Japanese
- ინფექციაGeorgian
- 感染, 감염Korean
- infectioLatin
- infekcijaLatvian
- infectieDutch
- infeksjonNorwegian
- iiʼnótʼį́į́Navajo, Navaho
- zakażenie, infekcjaPolish
- infeccionamento, infecçãoPortuguese
- infectare, infecțieRomanian
- зараза, инфекция, заражениеRussian
- зараза, заражење, zaraza, infèkcija, zaraženje, инфѐкцијаSerbo-Croatian
- infektionSwedish
- การติดเชื้อThai
- enfeksiyonTurkish
- закаження, зараза, інфекція, зараженняUkrainian
- אינפעקציעYiddish
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Варианты (v1)
Варианты (v2)
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infection [ɪnˈfekʃn] сущ
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инфекцияж, заразаж
(contagion)
- opportunistic infection – оппортунистическая инфекция
- secondary bacterial infection – вторичная бактериальная инфекция
- acute respiratory tract infections – острые респираторные инфекции
- central nervous system infections – инфекции центральной нервной системы
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заражениеср, инфицированиеср, инфицированностьж, зараженностьж
(contamination, infect)
- source of infection – источник заражения
- primary infection – первичное инфицирование
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инфекционное заболевание, инфекционная болезнь
(infectious disease)
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случаи инфекции
(cases of infection)
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внутрибольничная инфекция
(nosocomial infection)
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infection [ɪnˈfekʃn] прил
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инфекционный
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- infection disease – инфекционное заболевание
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| noun | ||
| инфекция | infection, contagion | |
| заражение | infection, contamination | |
| зараза | infection, contagion, taint, virus, zymosis | |
| заразительность | infection | |
| пагубное влияние | upas, infection, blight | |
| разлагающее влияние | infection, canker |
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Well, preventing infection is either about protecting people or about eliminating the mosquitoes. |
Предотвращение инфекции — это либо защита людей, либо устранение комаров. |
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My mind was flooded with reflections of my own infection that I had to struggle with for a year past childbirth despite having access to the best medical care. |
Я сразу вспомнила о своей собственной инфекции , с которой мне пришлось бороться в течение целого года после родов, несмотря на то, что у меня был доступ к лучшему медицинскому обслуживанию. |
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They were absolutely right — it would cause more infection . |
Они были абсолютно правы — это бы только вызвало заражение. |
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The thread provided was a highway to bacterial infection through the baby’s umbilical cord, and the blade used was the kind that men used for shaving. |
Нить в комплекте была прямой дорогой к бактериальной инфекции через пуповину ребёнка, а скальпель напоминал мужскую бритву. |
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And for some, the worldview of radical Islam becomes the infection that festers in these open wounds. |
И для некоторых из них мировоззрение радикального ислама становится чем — то вроде инфекции , которая их поражает. |
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They want us to tear open more wounds in our societies so that they can use them to spread their infection more widely. |
Они хотят, чтобы в нашем обществе стало больше открытых ран и инфекция могла распространиться ещё дальше. |
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That spring I got infection after infection , and every time I went to the doctor, he said there was absolutely nothing wrong. |
Той весной я подхватывала инфекцию за инфекцией , и каждый раз, когда была у врача, он говорил мне, что со мной всё в порядке. |
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He told me that everything — the fevers, the sore throats, the sinus infection , all of the gastrointestinal, neurological and cardiac symptoms — were being caused by some distant emotional trauma that I could not remember. |
Он сказал, что всё — жар, больное горло, синусит, все желудочно — кишечные, неврологические и кардиологические симптомы — было вызвано давней эмоциональной травмой, которую я не помню. |
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We don’t know why ME sometimes runs in families, why you can get it after almost any infection , from enteroviruses to Epstein-Barr virus to Q fever, or why it affects women at two to three times the rate of men. |
Мы не знаем, почему МЭ иногда болеют целые семьи, почему им можно заболеть после почти любой инфекции , от энтеровируса до вируса Эпштейна — Барра и Ку — лихорадки, или почему женщины болеют им в два — три раза чаще мужчин. |
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By the 1950s, we instead knew that tuberculosis was caused by a highly contagious bacterial infection . |
В 1950 — х мы уже знали, что причина туберкулёза — высоко заразная бактериальная инфекция . |
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And that means now, in 2016, we still have no cures for any mood disorders, just drugs that suppress symptoms, which is kind of the difference between taking a painkiller for an infection versus an antibiotic. |
А это значит, что сегодня, в 2016, у нас всё ещё нет средств ни от одного аффективного расстройства, только препараты, подавляющие симптомы, что соответствует приёму болеутоляющего при инфекции вместо антибиотика. |
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It’s your own immune system that’s developed resistance and resilience to this bacteria that fights it off, and you actually never get the infection , which is very different from, say, our treatments. |
Она вырабатывает устойчивость к бактериям, и вы не можете заразиться, что очень отличает вакцинацию от лечебных процедур. |
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In that case, you get the infection , you’re exposed to the bacteria, you’re sick, and then you take, say, an antibiotic which cures it, and those drugs are actually working to kill the bacteria. |
В таком случае вы заражаетесь, подвергаетесь воздействию бактерий, заболеваете и принимаете антибиотик, который убивает эти бактерии. |
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Or similar to as I said before, with this palliative, you’ll take something that will suppress the symptoms, but it won’t treat the underlying infection , and you’ll only feel better during the time in which you’re taking it, which is why you have to keep taking it. |
Или же, в духе с тем, что я говорила ранее, вы принимаете средство, подавляющее симптомы, но не лечащее инфекцию , и вы чувствуете себя лучше только пока принимаете его, что вынуждает вас продолжать приём. |
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What infection can cause pneumonia and culture-negative endocarditis? |
Какая инфекция может вызвать пневмонию и невидимый в тестах эндокардит? |
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There’s no risk of infection or further escapes. |
Нет риска ни распространения инфекций , ни дальнейших побегов. |
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Thus HIV may not produce illness until its genes are turned on five, ten, fifteen or perhaps more years after the initial infection . |
Таким образом, ВИЧ может не вызывать заболевания , пока его гены не включены, в течение пяти, десяти, пятнадцати или, возможно, большего количества лет после первичного инфицирования. |
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Millions of them are dying from infection diseases every year. |
Миллионы умирают от инфекционных заболеваний каждый год. |
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The latest data suggest that the infection rate is decreasing. |
Последние данные говорят о том,что Уровень инфекции снижается. |
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He took a tactical nuke and teleported into the middle of a high-density infection area. |
Он взял тактическую ядерную бомбу и телепортировался в центр области заражения с наивысшей плотностью. |
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And the positive example of life in the Zone would act as a counter-infection to the social diseases of the rest of the planet. |
А положительный пример жизни в Зоне будет действовать как противоядие от социальных язв остальной планеты. |
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Oxygen attaches itself to iron, which increases her chance of infection . |
Кислород прикрепляется к железу, что повышает шансы инфекции . |
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A small cut on the inside of the left nostril led to an infection in the cavernous sinus. |
Небольшая ранка на внутренней стороне левой ноздри привело к инфекции в пещеристой пазухе. |
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Infection has a nasty habit of taking advantage of our everyday behaviors. |
У инфекций есть скверная привычка пользоваться нашим ежедневным поведением. |
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At the height of the infection , a rabies victim will react violently to the sight or sound of water. |
На пике инфекции жертва бешенства очень сильно реагирует на вид воды и даже её звуки. |
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Our tissue can’t have been the source of this rabies infection . |
Наши ткани не могли стать источником этих заражений бешенством. |
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My outrage is here to stay, and I will obliterate any infection threatening my firm. |
Мое же негодование никуда не денется, и я уничтожу любую заразу, угрожающую моей фирме. |
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Dennis Fackler was allowed to recover from a bronchial infection , and he took the test again six weeks later. |
Дэннис Фэклер поправился после бронхиальной инфекции и смог пересдать экзамен спустя три недели. |
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Louie was only an infant in the crib, and he developed this ear infection . |
У Луи была своя колыбель, и однажды он подхватил ушную инфекцию . |
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The progression of symptoms from bowel to heart makes a parasitic infection most likely. |
Распространение симптомов от кишечника к сердцу делает наиболее вероятным наличие заражения. |
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Doctors are cautious about the possibility of infection caused by the bullet still lodged in his abdomen. |
Врачи опасаются заражения крови так как пуля все еще находится в брюшной полости охранника. |
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I have bathed it in lorassium, which is usually effective against any infection , but the blood does not clot. |
Я обработал рану лорассием, который обычно хорошо помогает от всякого заражения, но кровь не свертывается. |
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Tularemia initially presents with a rash or ulcer near the infection site. |
Туляремия сначала проявляется в виде сыпи или язвы в районе заражения. |
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Blood tests show no sign of viral or bacterial infection . |
Анализы крови не выявили каких — либо вирусных или бактериальных инфекций . |
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the patient suffered from a significant loss of cardiac function due to a viral infection . |
10 лет назад вследствие вирусной инфекции у пациента развилась тяжелая сердечная недостаточность. |
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We’ve got a highly contagious, antibiotic-resistant infection , which he may have contracted from Hamasa. |
У нас высоко патогенная устойчивая к антибиотикам инфекция , которой он мог заразиться от Хамасы. |
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But an infection is never resistant To every antibiotic. |
Но инфекция никогда не бывает устойчива ко всем антибиотикам. |
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His lungs are too scarred to tell which infection triggered the immune reconstitution. |
Его лёгкие слишком сильно зарубцевались, чтобы мы могли определить, какой инфекцией вызвано восстановление иммунной системы. |
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Your soul sister is having a fungal infection from the unprocessed wheat in the altar breads. |
У твоей родственной души грибковая инфекция от необработанной пшеницы в хлебах для причастия. |
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But I went into a dirty hot tub in Orlando with a small scrape, and I got a big infection . |
Но я зашел в грязное джакузи в Орландо с маленькой царапиной и получил большое заражение. |
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There was a name for the infection he had, but none of us bothered to pronounce it. |
Его инфекция как — то называлась, но ни один из нас не смог выговорить названия. |
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His insides looked like models for a textbook on infection . |
Его потроха могли бы служить учебным пособием по инфекционным заболеваниям . |
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It’s not an exaggeration to say that people could soon be dying of a sinus infection . |
Не будет преувеличением сказать, что люди скоро начнут умирать от синусИта. |
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Something we can give them that’ll go right to the seat of the infection and kill it. |
Которые мы можем дать животному и которые попадут прямиком в очаг инфекции и уничтожат ее. |
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A broken rib that has become infected , with a most severe and terrifying infection that can only be treated by this remedy. |
Сломанное ребро, заражённое самой тяжёлой и ужасной инфекцией которое можно вылечить только этим лекарством. |
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Large numbers of bodies are still not cleared from the original outbreak of infection . |
После вспышки эпидемии осталось много тел, их предстоит убрать. |
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Patrice has sickle cell anemia, and it’s caused a serious infection in his elbow. |
У Патриса серповидноклеточная анемия, ставшая причиной обширного воспаления в локте. |
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A letter was sent to the state medical board complaining about the hospital’s infection rates. I’m the hospital’s lawyer. |
Письмо было отправлено в государственную медицинскую комиссию, с жалобами на уровень инфекции в больнице. |
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They think the infection is a strain of the CHIKV virus. |
Они считают, что болезнь вызывается штаммом вируса CHIKV. |
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The Rebel infection began seeping through the Salient soon after the fall of Forsberg. |
Вскоре после потери Форсберга мятежники начали просачиваться через Клин на юг. |
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Patient presented with gastric bacterial infection , coupled with peptic ulcers. |
У пациента наблюдается бактериальная инфекция желудка в сочетании с пептической язвой. |
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We attempted to excise all the dead tissue, But the infection had already invaded the chest cavity. |
Мы попытались удалить всю омертвевшую ткань, но инфекция уже проникла в грудную полость. |
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Edward caught a secondary infection from something that had been smeared on the stake. |
Эдуард подцепил вторичную инфекцию от какой — то дряни, которой был смазан кол. |
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Could be a simple urinary tract infection , which would also account for the disorientation. |
Возможно это простая инфекция мочевых путей, что также может привести к дезориентации. |
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I never told her when I got a urinary tract infection . |
Я никогда не рассказывала ей, что у меня была инфекции мочевых путей. |
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I’m familiar with Dr Crawley’s work on the symptoms of infection in children. |
Я читал работу доктора Кроули о симптомах инфекционных заболеваний у детей. |
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The Ministry of Health envisioned a nation where every citizen was aware of the consequences of HIV infection and was equipped to behave responsibly. |
Министерство здравоохранения добивается того, чтобы каждый гражданин страны осознавал последствия заражения ВИЧ — инфекцией и был готов проявлять ответственное поведение. |
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Traditional birth attendants and traditional healers were trained in safe motherhood skills and infection control. |
Навыкам безопасного материнства и борьбы с инфекциями обучались традиционные акушеры и знахари. |
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At the same time, they exhibited slower population growth rates and lower levels of HIV infection . |
В то же время для них были характерны более низкие темпы роста населения и меньшие масштабы инфицирования ВИЧ. |
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They are exposed to violence and HIV/AIDS infection ; they are deprived of education; they are vulnerable to malnutrition and disease. |
Они подвергаются насилию и заболевают ВИЧ/СПИДом; они лишены возможности получить образование; они уязвимы перед недоеданием и болезнями. |
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[ ɪnfˈɛkʃən], [ ɪnfˈɛkʃən], [ ɪ_n_f_ˈɛ_k_ʃ_ə_n]
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Definition of infection
as in virus
an abnormal state caused by contact with harmful organisms (such as bacteria or viruses)
There is a viral infection spreading among the schoolchildren.
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