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
  • And vaccination is the only surefire way to slow the spread of the wildly contagious disease.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Well, the first thing to know is that measles is one of the most contagious diseases on Earth — more than Ebola, smallpox or just about any other infectious disease.
    Alyson Hurt, NPR, 28 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Instead, officials and experts have stressed the importance of vaccines, which are safe and highly effective, to stop the spread of the highly contagious disease.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • An unvaccinated child who died in late February in Texas was the first U.S. fatality from the highly contagious disease in a decade.
    CBS News, 3 Mar. 2025
  • 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

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