Richard Dawkins

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

English Scientist

Don't mix up 'infective' with 'infected'; 'infective' describes something that can cause infection.

Possible confusion

'Infective' often pairs with words like 'agent,' 'disease,' or 'stage' to describe infectious aspects.

Collocation examples

'Infective' has a negative connotation since it's related to illnesses and their spread.

Negative connotation

'Infective' in medical context implies involvement in the process of infection.

Medical specificity

Use 'infective' to describe conditions or complications in healthcare-related discussions.

Clinical settings

'Infective' carries a formal tone, especially suitable in scientific or medical settings.

Professional tone

 time in the infectiousness of a disease using suddenly the co are not which is a number of secondary cases one infective case who give in a population that has not had the disease before now the higher that number the bigger the bigger the problem is for you to eliminate it

Misconceptions about...

 but the DNA from this organism is not infective. So even if somebody made the smallpox genome, that DNA itself would not cause infections. The real concern that security departments have is designer viruses.