contagious disease
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcontagiousanddisease
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contagious
adjective
uk/kənˈteɪ.dʒəs/us/kənˈteɪ.dʒəs/
A contagious disease can be caught by touching someone who has the disease or by touching an infected object, or by an infected person coughing, sneezing, etc. ...
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disease
noun
uk/dɪˈziːz/us/dɪˈziːz/
(an) illness of people, animals, plants, etc., caused by infection or a failure of health rather than by ...
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(Definition ofcontagiousanddiseasefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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As if debts were acontagiousdisease!
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But text is more like acontagiousdiseasethan lightning.
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It is acontagiousdisease.
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In particular, canines are susceptible to infection and mange is a highlycontagiousdiseaseamong dogs.
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Are they free fromcontagiousdisease?
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What if a person dies from acontagiousdisease?
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Repeal iscontagiousdiseaseonce it has been encouraged.
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It is a most insidious, dangerous, andcontagiousdisease.
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This proposal also carries risks in terms ofcontagiousdiseaseand infection.
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They are like the germs of somecontagiousdisease, which may spread and destroy men's lives.
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The building societies and the banks are avoiding it like one would avoid acontagiousdisease.
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A person with acontagiousdiseasemight be working in a food factory.
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This is acontagiousdisease, as contagious as tuberculosis was in the '40s and '50s.
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One would almost imagine that he suffered from somecontagiousdisease.
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There have been no serious outbreaks of infectious orcontagiousdisease.
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It is second only to measles as the most prevalentcontagiousdiseasein this country.
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They would be the authority to deal with an outbreak ofcontagiousdisease.
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I am not sure whether it could be described exactly as an infectious orcontagiousdisease.
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In his report, he described inspections as limited to second- and third-class passengers, even though those in first class could obviously carrycontagiousdiseaseor physical stigma.
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The discourse of public health had originated in diverse eighteenth-century inquiries into growing urban concerns such ascontagiousdisease, sewage disposal, water supply, housing, and burial practices.
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If we see one instance of acontagiousdiseasesuch as tuberculosis in a city, then we would not be surprised to find quite a few more.
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These factors posed risks during an outbreak ofcontagiousdisease.
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In most cases ofcontagiousdisease, we usually know what kind of treatment we want to apply.
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Like acontagiousdisease, unemployment has spread throughout the whole country, visiting every region, town and community throughout the land.
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Ifcontagiousdiseasebreaks out we remove people from their homes, and put them in isolation hospitals.
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