How to Use communicable disease in a Sentence

communicable disease

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Definition of communicable diseasenext
  • The last step is a medical check to ensure refugees will not spread a communicable disease.
    — Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Title 42 stems from a 79-year-old federal law, the Public Health Service Act, and is designed, among other things, to prevent the spread of communicable diseases.
    — Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2023
  • So, this gene editing process not only makes the organs more compatible but may help with some of the other concerns around communicable diseases.
    — Deeptee Jain, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
  • There will likely be an uptick of vaccine-preventable diseases as well as non-communicable diseases that turn into acute problems.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The idea was that nurses placed in primary schools could help treat and prevent communicable diseases so that children could stay in school and receive an education.
    — TIME, 8 May 2024
  • New hires need to have first aid and communicable disease training, plus background checks and finger prints, which cost several hundred dollars.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 10 July 2023
  • Climate change also compounds the threat of communicable diseases.
    — Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2019
  • The cost of care Long said offering medical treatment to the asylum seekers was not a burden, but simply standard public health practice to protect everyone from communicable diseases that recognize no borders.
    — Shimon Prokupecz, CNN, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The West Facility, which opened in 1991, is designated for prisoners with communicable diseases, but also houses detainees separate from those who are sick.
    — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 9 May 2024
  • Malnutrition and unsanitary conditions are triggering an epidemic of communicable diseases, and every day, Darhok tells us, a little boy or girl dies.
    — Nima Elbagir, CNN, 19 June 2023
  • Also under the bill, the existence of an outbreak or epidemic of a communicable disease in a voter's community does not qualify the voter as indefinitely confined.
    — D.l. Davis, Journal Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Bagdasarian said higher percentages of immunizations helps reduce the risk for outbreaks of communicable diseases such as measles, mumps, pertussis (whooping cough) and chickenpox.
    — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The policy was a pandemic-era measure that allowed Border Patrol to expel immigrants without issuing asylum hearing dates due to concerns over communicable diseases.
    — Julia Johnson, Washington Examiner, 17 May 2023
  • The policy allowed Border Patrol to expel immigrants without issuing asylum hearing dates due to concerns over communicable diseases.
    — Julia Johnson, Washington Examiner, 15 May 2023
  • Great examples of these core services are communicable disease prevention and control, chronic disease prevention and reduction, maternal and child health, and emergency preparedness.
    — Michael Mirochna, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2023
  • Deaths from communicable diseases like tuberculosis and hepatitis have fallen by 94%.
    — Dan Gorenstein, NPR, 11 June 2024
  • For periods of the 20th century, the health priorities of successive governing bodies appeared focused more on reducing the spread of communicable disease to protect foreigners interacting with the native Palestinian population.
    — Yara M. Asi, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2023
  • One measure eliminated laws that criminalized knowingly transmitting HIV, which imposed harsher penalties than similar laws for other serious communicable diseases.
    — Melanie Mason, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Additional countywide foot teams also distribute educational information on communicable diseases and hygiene kits.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2023
  • Advertisement Contra Costa Health’s communicable disease program is investigating the case and has not determined where the person became infected, according to a news release.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2024
  • Antibiotics can treat plague, but a person must be seen immediately to avoid serious illness or death, said Alicia Solis, a communicable disease and emergency preparedness program manager in the Pueblo County public health department, in a statement.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 9 July 2024

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