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

Measles is one of the most contagious diseases known, which can also wipe out the immune system’s “memory,” making illness and death from other pathogens more likely.

From Salon

Meadowlark shrinks away from me with a horrified look on her face, like I’ve got a contagious disease.

From Literature

"It is crucial to ascertain whether similar drivers of hesitancy" affect routine vaccinations for other contagious diseases such as measles or the flu, they wrote in a separate commentary in The Lancet.

From Barron's

He looked utterly miserable, sitting there like a man with a contagious disease.

From BBC

Measles is one of the most contagious diseases on the planet.

From Salon