How to Use contagious disease in a Sentence

contagious disease

noun

• Measles is one of the most contagious diseases known to humans.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 6 Mar. 2023
• Measles is one of the most contagious diseases known to humans.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 28 Feb. 2025
• Polio is a contagious disease for which there is no cure.
  — Richard Requena, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2023
• In the face of such a contagious disease, 95 percent would be good; 99 percent much better.
  — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2024
• If there were no cases of this highly contagious disease, there would be no more measles.
  — Paul Law, STAT, 12 Mar. 2024
• Measles is a highly contagious disease that can be spread from person-to-person through the air and can stay in the air for two hours after a sick person coughs or sneezes.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2024
• Here’s how to protect yourself against the highly contagious disease this spring break.
  — The Enquirer, 7 Mar. 2024
• Babies are at high risk from the highly contagious disease.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
• Measles is actually one of the most contagious diseases, according to the CDC.
  — Katie Wiseman, The Enquirer, 6 Feb. 2024
• Measles is a highly contagious disease where symptoms may begin 7 to 14 days after exposure to the virus, according to the CDC.
  — James Powel, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2025
• These are just a couple of examples of the contagious diseases that vaccines have combatted in my lifetime.
  — Sheila Jaffe, Sun Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2025
• Measles is a highly contagious disease that can lead to complications and turn deadly, according to the CDC.
  — Mira Cheng, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
• Even if an animal is not suspected to have died from a contagious disease, gloves should always be worn if it must be handled for disposal.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 4 June 2023
• Indoor cats are also less at risk from contagious diseases and parasites.
  — Rachael O'Connor, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
• This new confidence was, in part, justified: health departments made real progress against the threat of contagious diseases during these years.
  — Amy Lauren Fairchild, Foreign Affairs, 10 Mar. 2020
• Your baby—as well as every member of your household—will also be prescribed an antibiotic to prevent the spread of this very contagious disease.
  — Evan Forster, Parents, 17 June 2024
• Though measles was largely eradicated from the U.S. around the turn of the century thanks to a vaccine that is 97% effective, the rise of vaccine skepticism in recent years has led to a bit of a comeback for the highly contagious disease.
  — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2025
• You are surrounded by other sick people, some with contagious diseases.
  — Janice Blanchard, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2023
• Here’s what parents need to know about the potentially debilitating and deadly condition, one of the most contagious diseases the world has ever seen.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 27 Jan. 2024
• Extremist state legislators in Ohio, for instance, have given politicians the right to revoke any rule from the state health department designed to limit the spread of contagious disease.
  — The Editors, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2024
• In fact, since the advent of antibiotics and modern vaccines, most new contagious diseases of any kind have begun as viral animal infections that spilled over to humans.
  — Larry Brilliant, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022
• Measles is a highly contagious disease that can spread by coughing, sneezing or touching contaminated objects and then touching your mouth and nose.
  — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024
• In addition to measles, those vaccines protect against other contagious diseases such as whooping cough and chickenpox.
  — Sarah Volpenhein, Journal Sentinel, 11 Oct. 2024
• By March, the highly contagious disease, which is transmittable by any bodily fluid, had made its way to the capital, Conakry, prompting panic among the city’s two million residents.
  — Jessica Hatcher, Foreign Affairs, 28 Apr. 2014
• Measles quickly spreads Measles is a highly contagious disease that spreads through respiratory droplets released by coughing and sneezing.
  — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2024
• In February, an infant who had traveled overseas was diagnosed with the highly contagious disease.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2024
• When a highly contagious disease gets into such a community, an outbreak can occur.
  — Arthur L. Kellermann, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
• Societies have a long history of blaming marginalized communities for the spread of contagious diseases.
  — Tony Leys and Amy Maxmen, USA TODAY, 26 May 2024
• So have programs for monitoring and deploying rapid-response teams for contagious diseases such as an Ebola outbreak in Uganda.
  — Ellen Knickmeyer, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2025
• Measles is such a contagious disease that before vaccines were developed nearly everyone contracted the virus in childhood.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 16 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 16 Mar 2025