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contagion

noun as in infection

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Standard vaccine studies involve thousands of participants, must recruit in areas where contagion is naturally high, and typically take months or even years as researchers wait to see how many people contract the disease.

From Quartz

Facing flare-ups from late June through August that were sometimes higher than the initial spread of contagion, countries initially refrained from blanket orders.

From Fortune

The World Health Organization acknowledged the airborne spread of particles in July and hundreds of scientists have written about this form of contagion.

From Quartz

Hungary’s decision to close its borders is based on its own “traffic light system” for contagion risk, which currently shows Hungary as green and everyone else as red.

From Fortune

There are a lot of upsides to urban density — but viral contagion is not one of them.

In addition, the protests had been largely contained to very specific areas and the fear of contagion never materialized.

As scary as contagion can seem, nobody should be panicking, no matter which virus happens to be making the headlines.

Further, the contagion effect of suicide and the resultant attention to it is a well-documented phenomenon.

But although desire cannot be imparted by argument, it can be by contagion.

In fact, we have been inoculated from the experience of contagion.

It may be transmitted through the air for short distances, not nearly so far as the air will carry the contagion of smallpox.

The contagion is spread just as that of smallpox is spread, except that it is not carried through the air so far.

The specific cause of typhus is unknown, but the contagion develops and reproduces itself in the body of the patient.

Curiously enough, for the next two days and nights a perfect contagion of watching seemed to have spread through the village.

Wedding-cards have been pouring in till the contagion has reached us; Edith will be married next Thursday.

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On this page you'll find 34 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to contagion, such as: contamination, illness, pollution, virus, bane, and corruption.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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