infectious disease
noun
: a disease (such as influenza, malaria, meningitis, rabies, or tetanus) caused by the entrance into the body of pathogenic agents or microorganisms (such as bacteria, viruses, protozoans, or fungi) which grow and multiply there compare communicable disease, contagious disease
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Ending polio will be a historic public health milestone, making polio the second infectious disease, after smallpox, to be certified eradicated.
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Cynthia Tully, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
The virus appears to be more transmissible because there appear to be changes to the spike protein, which is what the virus uses to attach to and infect cells, said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, a professor of medicine and infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 19 June 2025
In Massachusetts, however, public health officials had just clocked the first case in a brand-new infectious disease outbreak.
—Matt Alderton, USA Today, 14 June 2025
Ross, who also works on infectious disease forecasting and serves as executive director of rOpenSci, a project that focuses on improving the R programming language, sees Grant Watch as a kind of data journalism project—one that enables rather than replaces traditional reporting.
—John Drake, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
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Cynthia Tully, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
The virus appears to be more transmissible because there appear to be changes to the spike protein, which is what the virus uses to attach to and infect cells, said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, a professor of medicine and infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 19 June 2025
In Massachusetts, however, public health officials had just clocked the first case in a brand-new infectious disease outbreak.
—Matt Alderton, USA Today, 14 June 2025
Ross, who also works on infectious disease forecasting and serves as executive director of rOpenSci, a project that focuses on improving the R programming language, sees Grant Watch as a kind of data journalism project—one that enables rather than replaces traditional reporting.
—John Drake, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
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“Infectious disease.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/infectious%20disease. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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