His brother Bobby, younger by 20 months, visited him in his room and was fatally infected.

They arrive at the coast, where they share a small battle with some demons, and, according to Connla, Ronan is forced over into the sea and Fiachna is fatally infected with demon poison.

Half the pioneers had been fatally infected within thirty-six days; the rest lived.

Then they said that even people who just handled a sealed letter could be fatally infected.

They look well at the moment, but they may already be fatally infected with plague.

Roger A. Bodman, a Republican strategist who ran two successful Republican presidential campaigns in New Jersey in 1984 and 1988, also blames the neighbor, although he does not think the state has been fatally infected by liberal tendencies.

To the Editor: "The Stale Rules That Stifle TV" (editorial, Nov. 30), in which you take the side of ABC, CBS and NBC against independent television producers is fatally infected with error.

Thai hospitals treated eight cases of SARS last year, all involving people who acquired the disease elsewhere, most notably Dr. Carlo Urbani, the W.H.O. doctor from Italy who first spotted the disease and raised the alarm in Hanoi last March, but was fatally infected while treating the sick.

The agency also said the tissue that had fatally infected a Minnesotan who was having kneecap repair surgery, Brian Lykins, 23, had not been refrigerated until 19 hours after the donor's death, by which time lethal bacteria from his intestines might have spilled into his body.

Miserable, Aslan grasps at anything he can to put himself out of his misery, including trying to become fatally infected when there's an outbreak of the plague.