Aids is not like flu - each time a person is exposed to HIV they are reinfected, which is why HIV-positive people have to use condoms, particularly if having sex with another HIV positive person. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Therefore you cannot become reinfected with the hepatitis A virus. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"Just as China can become reinfected, so can polio-free areas in Pakistan become reinfected." ❋ Unknown (2011)
The rest of the world may be polio-free but because it is a communicable disease and people travel, polio-free countries can become reinfected … this is what we are seeing in western China, Rosenbauer said. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Duffy was reinfected by separate mosquito bites, but if an infection is not treated properly right away, the parasite can return weeks or months later. ❋ Eric Niiler (2010)
With the success of the smallpox inoculation, some nineteenth-century doctors thought that the great pox would also be controlled by vaccine, but they soon found that infected people could get reinfected, making the disease unsuitable for that treatment. ❋ Gary Greenberg (2010)
When the scientists reinfected the rats and the new wave of nematodes began making eggs, the parasites that emerged from them were more likely to be sexual forms. ❋ Carl Zimmer (2009)
Bennett's cream keeps the hands from being reinfected -- for hours. ❋ Unknown (2008)
They can easily become reinfected with a more virulent strain of HIV that will kill them faster. ❋ Unknown (2008)
They will keep hounding some geek family member or friend to fix their computer only to be reinfected within a short period of time (eventually the geek will tire of fixing the same computer over and over again). ❋ Unknown (2005)
I don't know how long the virus lives on room surfaces or if he's at risk of being reinfected; I need to ask those questions. ❋ Susan Palwick (2007)
Ethiopia was also reinfected in December 2004 and has since reported 37 cases. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The country was then reinfected in the regional epidemic. ❋ Unknown (2005)
They will keep hounding some geek family member or friend to fix their computer only to be reinfected within a short period of time eventually the geek will tire of fixing the same computer over and over again. ❋ Unknown (2005)
To remove the worm, a system administrator had to run a program that erased the malicious code; then, the administrator had to patch the vulnerability so that the computer would not get reinfected. ❋ Unknown (2003)
If your partner continues to carry the microorganisms, you will be reinfected. ❋ The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective (2005)
Using protection will also prevent you from being reinfected if your partner has the infection. ❋ The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective (2005)
"Because, yes you can rehydrate people, but if they get reinfected again, you have not accomplished what you have set yourself to accomplish." ❋ Unknown (2005)
