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contagious disease
- An infectious disease that is spread through contact with infected individuals; also called a communicable disease . Contact with the bodily secretions of such individuals, or with objects that they have contaminated, can also spread this kind of disease.
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In researching The Illustrious Dead, I was astonished to learn that Napoleon had a rather unique view of contagious disease.
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If we were infected by every exposure to contagious disease the world would be depopulated.
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Originating in Africa this contagious disease is believed to have been disseminated by the slave trade.
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It seemed as if I had some contagious disease, from which every man shrunk with alarm, and left me to perish unassisted and alone.
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She was feeling the fell blow of a contagious disease, which upsets every previously stable condition.
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While not a contagious disease, it is said that a majority of men suffer from it at some period in life.
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