infect vs poison

infect

verb
  • To contaminate (an object or substance) with a pathogen. 

  • To make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion, or to communicate a feeling to others, or a feeling communicating itself to others. 

  • To bring (the body or part of it) into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen), so that the pathogen begins to act on the body; (of a pathogen) to come into contact with (a body or body part) and begin to act on it. 

poison

verb
  • To pollute; to cause to become poisonous. 

  • To place false information into (a cache) as part of an exploit. 

  • To cause (someone) to hate or to have unfair negative opinions. 

  • To use poison to kill or paralyse (somebody). 

  • To cause to become much worse. 

  • To inhibit the catalytic activity of. 

noun
  • A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism when ingested. 

  • Any substance that inhibits catalytic activity. 

  • Something that harms a person or thing. 

  • An intoxicating drink; a liquor. (note: this sense is chiefly encountered in the phrases "name your poison" and "what's your poison ?") 

How often have the words infect and poison occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )