For a while it might be able to make new viruses that could re-infect the same cell, but over enough time, the viruses would become disabled.

有时也可能产生新的病毒，再次感染同一细胞，但在足够长的时间里，该病毒将会失去感染力。

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Sick employees don't just affect their own work; they infect coworkers who then need to take time off themselves. (or who come in sick and spread the germs further.)

病了的员工不但影响到自己的工作，还会把病传染给同事们，随后他们也要去请假，或者继续上班，传播更多的病毒。

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By that time, the illiquidity in credit markets had begun to infect the protection AIG had written on securities other than those backed by subprime.

到那时，信贷市场中的非流动性已开始影响美国国际集团已发行的对于那些次贷支持证券以外证券的保护。

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Unless immunisation is re-started promptly it will allow the virus time to spread and infect more children.

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As with any vaccine, the aim is to prompt the immune system to recognise this outer shell and destroy the pathogen before it has time to lock onto cells and infect them with its genetic material.

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In early experiments, Bhatia's lab, called the Laboratory for Multiscale Regenerative Technology, was able to infect her liver cells with malaria for the first time two weeks ago and hopes to be able to offer malaria researchers a way to test drugs that will kill the hypnozoites.

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