disease that is spread from person-to-person, from animals to people, or from objects in the environment to people.

A disease spread through direct contact with an infected person or substance.

Any condition that is transmitted directly or indirectly to a person from an infected person or animal through the agency of an intermediate animal, host or vector or through the inanimate environment. Communicable diseases include, but is not limited to, influenza; tuberculosis; conjunctivitis; infectious mononucleosis; acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), AIDS-related complex (ARC) and positive HIV antibody status; hepatitis A, B, C and D; meningitis; SARS; and sexually transmitted diseases.

An illness due to a specific infectious agent or its toxic products that arises through transmission of that agent or its products from an infected person, animal, or reservoir to a susceptible host, either directly or indirectly through an intermediate plan or animal host, vector, or the inanimate environment. Synonym: infectious disease. See also transmission of infection.

A disease that can be transmitted from one individual to another

Disease associated with an agent that can be transmitted from one host to another.

Diseases caused by the transfer of a germ or its toxin (poison) from an infected person, animal or object to a new host.

a disease that can be communicated from one person to another

a disease that can be transmitted from person to person and does not require a vector for transmission

a disease that may be transmitted from one

a disease that spreads from person to person

an illness caused by a specific infectious agent or its toxic products

an illness that is spread from one person of animal to another

an infectious disease that is passed from one person to another

an infectious disease that readily spreads from person to person

a disease that can spread from one person to another

A disease that is transmitted through direct contact with an infected individual or indirectly through a vector. Also called contagious disease.

An infectious disease that can be spread from person to person or animals to humans.

A disease which may be carried directly or indirectly from one person to another.

See infectious disease

A disease that is capable of being transmitted.

Measures within this category include diseases that are usually transmitted through person-to-person contact or shared use of contaminated instruments/materials. Many of these diseases can be prevented through the use of protective measures, such as a high level of vaccine coverage of vulnerable populations.

infectious disease caused by transmission of an infective biological agent (virus, bacterium, protozoan, or multicellular macroparasite)

A disease which is capable of being transmitted from one person or species to another

Any disease that can be spread from one host to another.

Any disease that can be transmitted from person-to-person, animal-to-person, or animal-to-animal.

A disease, the causative organisms of which are capable of being passed from a person, animal or the environment (which would include food and water) to a susceptible individual.