infectious
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Mr. Nazario’s deep affection for the island and its people is as clear as it is infectious.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
"I think the measles very much contributed to that child's demise," said William Moss, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
New World screwworm does not spread from one person to another the way an infectious disease such as COVID-19 does.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
“That’s infectious throughout the whole secondary, and the whole defense.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
As for food production’s more sinister by-product of infectious diseases, we cannot specify where within the Old World most major diseases of Old World origin arose.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing infectious
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act V
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