This could cause the tick to regurgitate infected fluids into the wound.

You could push infected fluid from the tick into your body if you squeeze it.

This may mean touching infected bodily fluids or drinking contaminated water or being bitten by the deer tick.

In children the most common cause is aspiration of infected amniotic fluid, or vaginal secretions.

We would have to find him, and try to destroy him, armed with nothing but a flashlight and a small glass vial of infected fluid.

Then disaster struck, a severe pneumonia and infected fluid around the lungs.

Some viruses of animals, including humans, are spread by exposure to infected bodily fluids.

If the infected fluid is not drained, the infection may persist, because antibiotics do not penetrate well into the pleural cavity.

Rarely, bacteria in the lung will form a pocket of infected fluid called a lung abscess.

Gonorrhea may also be spread by contact with infected bodily fluids, so that a mother could pass on the infection to her newborn during childbirth.