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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In Massachusetts, however, public health officials had just clocked the first case in a brand-new infectious disease outbreak.
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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
The study also didn’t account for different dosages in the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, noted Dr. Peter Hotez, a pediatrician and infectious disease expert who is co-director of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children’s Hospital.
—Sarah Owermohle, CNN Money, 13 June 2025
In fact, according to Stanford infectious disease expert Jake Scott, every vaccine has been tested against some form of placebo; some in use today had been tested against earlier versions of the shot, which themselves had been tested against placebo.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2025
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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
The study also didn’t account for different dosages in the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, noted Dr. Peter Hotez, a pediatrician and infectious disease expert who is co-director of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children’s Hospital.
—Sarah Owermohle, CNN Money, 13 June 2025
In fact, according to Stanford infectious disease expert Jake Scott, every vaccine has been tested against some form of placebo; some in use today had been tested against earlier versions of the shot, which themselves had been tested against placebo.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2025
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“Infectious disease.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/infectious%20disease. Accessed 26 Jun. 2025.
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