Definitions for "Contagious disease"
A disease communicable by contact with a patient suffering from it, or with some secretion of, or object touched by, such a patient. Most such diseases have already been proved to be germ diseases, and their communicability depends on the transmission of the living germs. Many germ diseases are not contagious, some special method of transmission or inoculation of the germs being required.
Disease spread by direct or indirect contact.
A communicable disease that is easily spread from one individual to another
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