communicable

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More than 95 percent of all people have natural immunity to Hansen’s, which is only mildly communicable even to those with susceptibility, and since 1941, it has been entirely curable.

From Salon

Title 42, which allows US border officials to deny individuals entry to the US "to prevent the spread of communicable disease" was was first implemented at the start of the Covid pandemic.

From BBC

The overcrowding is also driving the spread of communicable diseases like cholera.

From Reuters

Denise Stinson, communicable disease control program manager for the health department, is the department’s representing health officer in the case filings.

From Seattle Times

It gives the agency authority to “make and enforce such regulations … necessary to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable diseases” across states or from foreign lands.

From Washington Post