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communicable disease

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Any disease transmitted from one person or animal to another; also called contagious disease. Sometimes quarantine is required to prevent the spread of disease.

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That’s well above the 25 recorded in all of 2025, according to Dr. Eric Sergienko, chief of the state Department of Public Health’s communicable disease control division.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

Newsom said joining the WHO-led consortium would enable California to respond faster to communicable disease outbreaks and other public health threats.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2026

Head lice used to be listed as a communicable disease, and had to report it to the Health Department, King added.

From Salon • Aug. 25, 2024

The downward trend is encouraging, said Dr. Eric Chow, King County’s chief of communicable disease epidemiology.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2023

An infectious or communicable disease is one caused by the admission of some form of living matter into the body of a human being or of a lower animal.

From Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 by Anonymous

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