How to Use communicable disease in a Sentence

communicable disease

noun

• The last step is a medical check to ensure refugees will not spread a communicable disease.
  — Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 17 Oct. 2023
• Vance twisted data about communicable diseases and the city’s murder rate.
  — Maria Ramirez Uribe and Amy Sherman, Journal Sentinel, 18 Dec. 2024
• Most people in the country now have no memory of living with childhood communicable diseases, but not me.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 19 Nov. 2024
• There will likely be an uptick of vaccine-preventable diseases as well as non-communicable diseases that turn into acute problems.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 21 Feb. 2023
• Vaccines are the answer to communicable diseases, spread from one person to another.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2021
• After spending their day exposed to communicable diseases, these workers return to their homes in metro Phoenix.
  — Kunle Falayi, The Arizona Republic, 2 Oct. 2024
• New hires need to have first aid and communicable disease training, plus background checks and finger prints, which cost several hundred dollars.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 10 July 2023
• So, this gene editing process not only makes the organs more compatible but may help with some of the other concerns around communicable diseases.
  — Deeptee Jain, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• Climate change also compounds the threat of communicable diseases.
  — Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2019
• The idea was that nurses placed in primary schools could help treat and prevent communicable diseases so that children could stay in school and receive an education.
  — TIME, 8 May 2024
• Even after food supplies stabilize, a famine can sow the seeds for the development of future epidemics of non-communicable diseases.
  — Omer Awan, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
• The meat poses a significant risk of communicable diseases.
  — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 23 Aug. 2025
• Potential immigrants must pass a health screening and a medical exam, and they are tested for communicable diseases.
  — Raul A. Reyes, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2025
• Unlike mosquitoes and flies that can carry diseases, most spiders rarely transmit communicable diseases to humans.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 2 Apr. 2026
• Unlike mosquitoes and flies that can carry diseases, most spiders rarely transmit communicable diseases to humans.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2025
• Instead, the focus is on the 43 million people who die globally each year from non-communicable diseases, including strokes and lung disease.
  — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 26 Sep. 2025
• As a result, communicable diseases that had been all but eradicated during the Mao era reemerged and spread quickly in the 1980s.
  — Yanzhong Huang, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2011
• They are screened for communicable diseases, like tuberculosis, and asked to fill out a form that asks them to disclose any history of drug or alcohol use, mental health conditions or violence.
  — Amanda Seitz, ABC News, 7 Nov. 2025
• High levels of childhood vaccination protected young children from communicable diseases, such as polio.
  — Lydia Polgreen, Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2025
• They are screened for communicable diseases, such as tuberculosis, and asked to fill out a form that asks them to disclose any history of drug or alcohol use, mental health conditions, or violence.
  — NPR, 12 Nov. 2025
• They are screened for communicable diseases, like tuberculosis, and asked to fill out a form that asks them to disclose any history of drug or alcohol use, mental health conditions, or violence.
  — Amanda Seitz, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
• If current vaccination schedules are not adhered to, especially in children, a resurgence in all communicable diseases is likely.
  — Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
• The effect of cuts isn't just less preparedness for emergencies, but the ability to provide services for infectious and communicable diseases, and air and water quality.
  — Tina Reed, Axios, 10 Mar. 2025
• They are screened for communicable diseases, such as tuberculosis, and asked to disclose any history of drug or alcohol use, mental health conditions or violence.
  — Matthew Lee, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2026
• They are screened for communicable diseases, like tuberculosis, and asked to disclose any history of drug or alcohol use, mental health conditions or violence.
  — Matthew Lee, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
• Asia is getting wealthier, older—and potentially sicker, as rates of non-communicable disease rise across Southeast Asia.
  — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2026
• Inactivity is also one of the leading modifiable risk factors for non-communicable diseases like raised blood pressure, high cholesterol, and obesity.
  — Simmone Shah, Time, 17 Mar. 2026
• Under current Florida law, public school children must be vaccinated against polio, measles, mumps and other communicable diseases.
  — Aysha Bagchi, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2025
• Two others were with the 13-person communicable disease control team, which includes staff who respond to outbreaks in nursing homes, hospitals, restaurants, and schools, Davis said.
  — Rachana Pradhan, CNN, 4 Mar. 2025
• This is all happening because the person who’s supposed to be leading the charge against the spread of communicable disease is something of a turncoat, instead working to increase our vulnerability to these pathogens.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 28 Feb. 2025