contagious
Example Sentences
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"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
CJD is both fatal and potentially contagious, so a group of experts was quickly assembled to investigate. Fortunately for New Brunswick, the disease didn't spread.
From BBC
The loss of the country’s measles elimination status comes more than a year after the highly contagious virus started spreading.
From Los Angeles Times
The contagious respiratory illness typically kills thousands of people in the U.S. each year, though that number can rise significantly in years with troublesome viral variants.
“He had such a strong ‘I can’ belief in himself that was kind of contagious,” Meier said.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
