as in contagious disease
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Noun
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Monarez’s testimony will come a day before the agency’s influential vaccine panel plans to vote on whether to delay or restrict access to shots that protect children against potentially serious contagious diseases.—
Christian Orozco,
NBC news,
17 Sep. 2025 -
To prevent outbreaks of highly contagious diseases like measles, vaccination rates need to be as high as 95%.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
10 Sep. 2025
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The absence of diarrhea and dehydration ruled out cholera and other intestinal infections, the third most common cause of death.—
Tom Frieden,
Big Think,
30 Sep. 2025
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Common symptoms include significant weight loss, feelings of fatigue and heightened vulnerability to infections, as well as frequent urination and excessive thirst.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
30 Sep. 2025
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But some healthy people still want to get vaccinated to reduce their risk of getting sick at all, missing work or school, developing long COVID or spreading the virus to vulnerable people, such as older family members and friends with other health issues.—
Pien Huang,
NPR,
6 Oct. 2025
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The signoff is also coming later than usual for the fall respiratory virus season.—
Brenda Goodman,
CNN Money,
6 Oct. 2025
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There’s a lower risk of contagion with inactive chronic hepatitis B, while active chronic hepatitis B is contagious indefinitely.—
Angelica Stabile,
FOXNews.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Research on social contagion consistently shows that when enough individuals adopt new behaviors, change accelerates exponentially.—
Margie Warrell,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Contagium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contagium. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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