contagious
Example Sentences
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There is no vaccine or specific treatment for the strain responsible for the current outbreak of the highly contagious haemorrhagic fever, which has killed more than 15,000 people in Africa in the last 50 years.
From Barron's • May 18, 2026
I think courage is contagious in this context too.
From Slate • May 18, 2026
They calculated that the virus’s infectiousness—an estimate of how many people one contagious person will infect on average—is 2.1.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026
While COVID-19 was airborne and far more contagious, he guesses hantavirus is 50 times more deadly.
From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026
But another was an invisible killer: the Spanish and other European explorers brought deadly contagious diseases, like smallpox, to the Americas.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
Vocabulary lists containing contagious
Wonder
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
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Common Senses: Tact, Tang ("Touch")
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