communicable disease

Cultural  

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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Example Sentences

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

From BBC • May 26, 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

From there, he later studied HIV/AIDS before moving into a role as the department’s chief of communicable disease epidemiology and immunization, where he stayed for 17 years.

From Seattle Times • May 19, 2024

A county resident was also infected with colistin-resistant E. coli in 2018, said Dawn Terashita, associate director of acute communicable disease control at the county Department of Public Health, which monitors antibiotic-resistant infections.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2023

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