noncontagious
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In May, the World Health Organization added chronic kidney disease to its list of health priorities aimed at reducing early deaths from noncontagious diseases by one-third before 2030.
From Science Daily • Nov. 18, 2025
“I strongly support increasing the attention that we pay to chronic and noncontagious diseases as well, but it is not a zero sum game.”
From Salon • Feb. 21, 2025
These feature the sportscaster Joe Buck, who is portrayed as needing cough drops to do his job — a job that could make any voice scratchy, for totally nonalarming, noncontagious reasons.
From New York Times • May 4, 2022
The tougher one is, how about in the context of a noncontagious disease?
From Slate • Nov. 18, 2021
Abortion in cows is either contagious or noncontagious.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
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