The arrests themselves, in Mr Drucker's telling, represent an initial infection of sorts.

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The virus is thought to have originated in bats, but how the initial infection gets passed to humans remains a mystery.

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Initial infection is with a drive-by download on an otherwise innocent site.

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Researchers cautioned that the report on the baby girl involves just one patient, and the findings appear to have little immediate relevance to people who contract HIV as adults or adolescents and are almost always diagnosed and treated long after their initial infection.

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My initial thoughts on staph infection were that it was a disease you get in the hospital of if you live in a really filthy environment.

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Instead, the infection seemed to turn up somewhere between the initial site of injury and when they arrived in a hospital such as Brooke Army Medical Center or Walter Reed Army Medical Center stateside.

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Based on initial reports from such events, there has been no higher rate of infection after such drive-through vaccinations.

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