communicable disease

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1. 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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communicable disease

Lower respiratory infections, the world's most deadly communicable disease, came fourth.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Last week, Australia's Chief Medical Officer Prof Michael Kidd declared diphtheria a communicable disease incident of national significance.

From BBC ● May 26, 2026

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

“We have had multiple dairies refuse a site visit,” wrote the communicable disease program manager in Weld, Colorado, in a July 2 email.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2024

Tuberculosis is an infectious and communicable disease characterized in its early stages by the formation, in various organs of the body, of minute nodules or tubercles, which contain Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the cause of the disease.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry