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infectious

(= infective) caused by infection or capable of causing infection viruses and other infective agents a carrier remains infective without himself showing signs of the disease easily spread fear is exceedingly infectious; children catch it from their elders — Bertrand Russell of or relating to infection infectious hospital infectious disease

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Simple sentences

The new coronavirus is very infectious.
The infectious case was isolated from other patients.
Mumps is an infectious disease.
I like this song. It has an infectious rhythm and it's good to dance to.
Infectious diseases are caused by prions, viruses, rickettsia, chlamydia, bacteria, pathogenic fungi and protozoa.
Laughter is infectious.
Louis Pasteur discovered that germs cause most infectious diseases.
Tom's enthusiasm is infectious.
You have an infectious disease.
They have an infectious disease.
Sperm banks perform screenings on the donors to reduce the chance of their passing on genetic and infectious diseases.
Tatoeba is ill. It got Tom, a highly infectious virus.
Their love for life is infectious.

Movie subtitles

It's infectious.
Infectious Diseases.
One or two flags for infectious diseases? - One.
As deadly as a plague or as infectious as a common head cold.
Well, does your family doctor think that maybe your cat has something highly infectious?
This hospital is not for infectious diseases.
Colonel, It is my duty to inform you our Prior was taken from us by an infectious disease, Cholera.
Have you ever had infectious diseases?
And there's a clear pattern here which suggests an analogy to an infectious disease process spreading from one resort area to the next.
Davros, if you had created a virus in your laboratory, something contagious and infectious that killed on contact, a virus that would destroy all other forms of life, would you allow its use?
Check for infectious encephalitis.
Look, it could be infectious encephalitis. But either way I'm gonna need some time to observe the decomposition process.
They spread it around them like an infectious disease.
You see, when Heather Babcock went to the theatre that evening, she was infectious.
Infectious Diseases. Lots of mosquitoes?
No, sir. Laughter is. infectious.
It's probably highly infectious.
The virus of capitalism is highly infectious. Soon, you'll be lending money out at interest!
One or two flags for infectious diseases?
We have 16 infectious.
We are afraid that crash may have caused the spread of an infectious virus. through this area.
Some 40 cases of the highly infectious disease have been confirmed.
Now, if what that man has in the bus is infectious, then all of us will have it.
You have a very infectious laugh.
The illness is highly infectious.
It seems to be infectious.
The virus of capitalism is highly infectious.
We must be careful. It can be dangererous, very infectious.
The most infectious pestilence upon thee!
No, I had an infectious disease, but I'm better now.
He received them before any symptoms showed, the most infectious period.
She's got nothing infectious.
Do you think the disease is infectious?
What's the meaning of infectious?
All this conviviality is infectious.

News and current affairs

They have only recently been recognized as the cause of several infectious diseases, including mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, which kill by crowding out healthy brain cells.
And, in a world where borders are becoming increasingly porous to everything from drugs to infectious diseases to terrorism, America must mobilize international coalitions to address shared threats and challenges.
Each year, ten million people die from infectious diseases like malaria, HIV, and tuberculosis, along with pneumonia and diarrhea.
This year, we've gotten a taste of the many kinds of dangers that lie ahead: more extreme hurricanes, massive droughts, forest fires, spreading infectious diseases, and floods.
These investments are helping countries take direct ownership of the fight against infectious disease, ultimately reducing their dependence on foreign aid.
But the tiny number of Ebola cases in rich countries - and the ensuing panic-inducing headlines and quarantine measures - have brought home the global nature of infectious disease today.
The best defense against an infectious disease is to fight it where it originates, and that requires good health services.
Ebola appears to have been eradicated from Nigeria, in no small part because that country had a Gates Foundation-supported hospital with personnel trained and equipped to control infectious diseases.
When lifted out of poverty, most people can afford to avoid infectious diseases.
Epidemiologists have suggested that the study of how infectious diseases are propagated may illuminate the unusual patterns of financial contagion that we have seen in the last five years.
It is also a crisis of emerging infectious diseases (EID's), such as HIV in humans, Ebola in humans and gorillas, West Nile virus and Avian Influenza in humans and birds, chytrid fungi in amphibians, and distemper in sea lions.
The bottom board includes transnational relations that cross borders outside the control of governments - everything from drugs to infectious diseases to climate change to transnational terrorism.
The bottom chessboard includes transnational relations outside the control of governments - everything from drugs to infectious diseases to climate change to terrorism.
In fact, one in six cancer cases worldwide is caused by a known infectious agent, with the proportion rising to one-third in some countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
As infectious diseases have been brought increasingly under control, more people live into old age, when they become susceptible to long-term illnesses.
Today's blood supplies, often donated by volunteers, can be contaminated with HIV and other infectious agents.
The top risks in terms of impact were water crises and the spread of infectious diseases.
One area where concerted, collaborative action can make a major difference is the spread of infectious diseases.
This is especially urgent in light of the rapid growth of cities and informal settlements - where infectious diseases can spread more easily - in developing countries.
Similarly, we are also seeing the emergence and spread of new infectious diseases, such as AIDS, SARS, and avian flu.
As human populations crowd new parts of the planet and come into contact with new animal habitats, new infectious diseases spread from animals to humans.
Then there is hepB, which is over 50 times more infectious than HIV and often passed from mother to child before or shortly after birth, increasing the likelihood of liver cancer later in life.

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