contagious disease
noun
Note: The terms contagious disease and communicable disease are often used interchangeably. However, communicable diseases such as malaria or schistosomiasis that are spread by contact with disease vectors (such as mosquitoes or ticks) are not typically considered to be "contagious" diseases since they cannot be spread from direct contact with another person.
Examples of contagious disease in a Sentence
Fatma Khaled, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2024
However, breeding did decline in the past couple of years after park managers moved all the park’s birds to protected spaces to try to keep them safe from highly pathogenic avian influenza, a highly contagious disease.
—Karen Kucher, The Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2024
In addition to measles, those vaccines protect against other contagious diseases such as whooping cough and chickenpox.
—Sarah Volpenhein, Journal Sentinel, 11 Oct. 2024
Extremist state legislators in Ohio, for instance, have given politicians the right to revoke any rule from the state health department designed to limit the spread of contagious disease.
—The Editors, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2024
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“Contagious disease.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/contagious%20disease. Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.
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