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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Measles is such a contagious disease that before vaccines were developed nearly everyone contracted the virus in childhood.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 16 Nov. 2023
• Wen: Measles is one of the most contagious diseases in the world — up to 90% of the unvaccinated people who come into contact with a contagious individual will also become infected.
  — Katia Hetter, CNN, 8 Mar. 2023
• The consequences are already playing out in Columbus, Ohio, where a child with measles was able to wander around a mall before showing symptoms in November, potentially spreading the highly contagious disease.
  — Lauren Weber, Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Mar. 2023
• Water Aid The landslides have increased concerns that underground water flowing down the mountain could contaminate local water sources and give rise to contagious diseases.
  — Armani Syed, TIME, 28 May 2024
• Moreover, the white paint and garish red mouth may suggest contagious disease, and the clowns’ unpredictability can be discombobulating.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2023
• The highly contagious disease causes blisters on the tongue, lips, and between the hooves of cattle and other livestock, leaving animals debilitated and staunching milk production.
  — Bywarren Cornwall, science.org, 23 May 2023
• The highly contagious disease can travel a distance and linger on surfaces for days, infecting unsuspecting passengers.
  — Natalie B. Compton, Andrea Sachs and Heidi Pérez-Moreno, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Sep. 2023
• Travelers have spread contagious diseases for centuries.
  — Jeremy Youde, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019
• These advocates, including the author, call for a regime of nearly complete freedom of migration worldwide, with rare exceptions for preventing terrorism or the spread of contagious disease.
  — Nathan Smith, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2017
• Measles is a highly contagious disease in which 90% of unvaccinated people who are exposed to the virus can be infected via airborne particles, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  — Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 10 May 2024
• California, like all other states, requires schoolchildren to be vaccinated against contagious diseases such as measles, mumps and polio, and is one of only six states that do not allow religious exemptions to those mandates.
  — Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Mar. 2023
• Climate change exacerbates chronic and contagious disease, worsens food and water shortages, increases the risk of pandemics, and aggravates mass displacement.
  — Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024