contagious

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Passing on illness & causing disease
aerosolize
avirulent
communicability
community transmission
contact tracer
contagious
epidemic
fester
infect
infestation
interepidemic
interpandemic
mediastinum
non-communicable
skin to skinidiom
spreader
super-spreader
transferable
transmissibility
transmit

communicable | American Dictionary

communicable
adjective
us/kəˈmju·nɪ·kə·bəl/
able to be given to others:
a communicable disease

Examples of communicable

communicable
Communicable diseases, such as schistosomiasis (bilharzia), are transmitted by vectors which depend on water.
Their involvement previously has been confined to communicable diseases.
It is transmitted via the respiratory route, is highly communicable and mainly affects young children.
But communicable diseases must be controlled to improve public health.
Identifying the agents of communicable diseases was only one step to finding a cure, and the next step was often many decades away.
This increase might be the result of cumulative exposure over the years, and is expected in endemic areas in the case of most communicable diseases.
In general, transmissible agent, host and environment are the three factors that affect the epidemiology of communicable diseases.
The authorities hired physicians as gatekeepers to identify desirable and undesirable traits that went beyond the definition of communicable disease.
They dealt with the maintenance of sanitary conditions, carrying out of preventive measures against communicable diseases at international seaports and airports, and exchange of information.
Successful stories succeed (and so become cultural) not merely because their emotional resonance makes them memorable, but because it makes them communicable.
Such an approach would lead to a more rapid development of the evidence base needed to inform public health decision-making in communicable disease control.
Stakeholders' goals, contexts, and contents should be modeled in the system in a structured way and be communicable to other stakeholders.
The definition of the structured dimension is due to him and without this notion the result of this paper would have been hardly communicable.
Although many forms of communicable disease can be spread by conduct, the justification of pure quarantine requires no action or potential action.
These citizens tend not to suffer to nearly the same extent from the communicable diseases and chronic conditions suffered by poorer citizens.
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