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| anthrax |
an infectious, often fatal disease. Anthrax usually infects sheep or cattle, but can infect humans as well. |
| catching |
likely to infect or be passed on to another. |
| infect |
If one person infects another person, it means that they pass their germs over to that person and cause them to get sick. If you have a cold, you can infect other people by coughing or sneezing near them. If you touch a thing that has a lot of germs, like a telephone or a dog's ball, you can infect yourself if the germs get inside your body. [1/2 definitions] |
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