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Usage examples of contagious.

Landouzy proves to us that ever since the sixteenth century, in the districts of the Mediterranean, in Spain, in the Balearic Isles and throughout the kingdom of Naples, tuberculosis was held to be contagious, whilst the rest of Europe was ignorant of this contagion.

It is better known as the human immunodeficiency virus, HIV for short, and it is extremely contagious.

In fact, a blind ophthalmologist is not much good to anyone, but it was up to him to inform the health authorities, to warn them of this situation which might turn into a national catastrophe, nothing more nor less, of a form of blindness hitherto unknown, with every appearance of being highly contagious, and which, to all appearances, manifested itself without the previous existence of earlier pathological symptoms of an inflammatory, infectious or degenerative nature, as he was able to verify in the blind man who had come to consult him in his surgery, or as had been confirmed in his own case, a touch of myopia, a slight astigmatism, all so mild that he had decided, in the meantime, not to use corrective lenses.

The contagious and wild melody of the Ranz des Vaches rose in the square, and soon drew the absorbed and delighted attention of all within hearing which, to say the truth, was little less than all who were within the limits of the town, for, the crowd chiming in with the more regular artists, a, sort of musical enthusiasm seized upon all present who came of Vaud and her valleys.

And most had sense enough to understand that if the Rebels would not get close to them, they must be contagious.

Bubonic and septicemic plague are spread only through bites from infected fleas, so people who develop this form of the disease are not contagious to others.

It meets all the array of negative cases,--those in which disease did not follow exposure,--by the striking example of small-pox, which, although one of the most contagious of diseases, is subject to the most remarkable irregularities and seeming caprices in its transmission.

It is true of all contagious diseases, that they frequently spare those who appear to be fully submitted to their influence.

And there were rumors that the viral vectors the gengineers had used to make their changes could be contagious.

An inveterate leucorrhoea is not exactly a venereal disease, and I have heard people in London say that it was rarely contagious.

Puerperal Fever is so far contagious as to be frequently carried from patient to patient by physicians and nurses.

The practical point to be illustrated is the following: The disease known as Puerperal Fever is so far contagious as to be frequently carried from patient to patient by physicians and nurses.

Many of the prisoners believed that the scurvy was contagious, and I saw men guarding their wells and springs, fearing lest some man suffering with the scurvy might use the water and thus poison them.

Indeed, so foul and contagious are all such proceedings, that they contaminate the very innocent scenes where they are committed, and give the name of a bad house, or a house of ill repute, to all those where they are suffered to be carried on.

He anticipates another hostile encounter with the urchins, and that fearful prospect spreads a contagious blight over everything for him.