Sometimes the fear of infection can be more dangerous than the infection itself.
In 1990 in Port of Spain (POS) a gay guy had an argument with his partner in an airport hotel room. He bashed him on the head with a table lamp / fire extinguisher, (reports differ), and ran naked towards the airport, scaling the fence. The security guys tied to apprehend him. He knocked them about a bit too, and commandeered their vehicle. He then drove it into the number two engine of a BA 747-236 lined up at the end of the runway. The top of the vehicle went into the engine which coughed a bit, but kept running.. He then exited the vehicle, and chucked himself into the engine. Again, it coughed a bit, but continued to run.
The airport authorities wouldn't go near the aircraft, in fear of contracting AIDS ( big news about this time). The Flight Engineer had to arrange and carry out a hose down of the engine himself.
The lesson is ... infections are here forever, may not be as serious as the media would have you believe, and RB211's are mighty fine aircraft engines.