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Noun
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How does contagious disease spread?—
Allison Gibson,
Sacbee.com,
7 May 2026 -
Measles is a highly contagious disease that is typically spread through sneezes and coughs.—
Jesse Zanger,
CBS News,
6 May 2026
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But the following year, as the pandemic wore on and crime rates ticked up, the politics of criminal justice in the city shifted toward law-and-order anxiety, even as new waves of COVID infection struck the jails.—
Molly Fischer,
New Yorker,
11 May 2026
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Melina Khan Hantavirus is the same infection that killed Betsy Arakawa, the wife of late actor Gene Hackman.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
11 May 2026
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The virus can be transmitted to humans through urine or fecal matter and cause fatal lung and kidney complications in humans.—
Allison Kiehl,
Chicago Tribune,
9 May 2026
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Health authorities in South Africa and Switzerland identified the circulating strain as the Andes virus, the only hantavirus believed to spread from person to person, which is found in South America.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
8 May 2026
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Of course, the market during that period was closely tied to an aggressive rate-hiking cycle and a system-wide contagion event in the crypto industry.—
Tanaya Macheel,
CNBC,
1 May 2026
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Whether built as a hypnotic, recurring shape, a rampant contagion or both, music this uncompromising and unpredictable always carries a message for those who need to hear it.—
Reed Jackson,
SPIN,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Contagium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contagium. Accessed 13 May. 2026.
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