contagious disease

Cultural  

1. An infectious disease that is spread through contact with infected individuals; also called a communicable disease. Contact with the bodily secretions of such individuals, or with objects that they have contaminated, can also spread this kind of disease.

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Example Sentences

The English Parliament passed, some time ago, certain acts called the Contagious Disease Acts, as a sanitary measure, on the model of Continental legislation.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady