infectious
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With bright colors and bold, swirling lines, his vivid imagery captured the era’s infectious optimism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 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
Sometimes the energy of all that “na-na-nah”-ing is infectious enough to unify rivals, if only for a few measures of music.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Dr. Jessica Ericson, a pediatric infectious disease physician at Penn State Health Golisano Children’s Hospital, hadn’t seen a measles case in her 15 years in medicine until this June.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Since Asian mainland infectious diseases were well established in Indonesia, New Guineans thereby gained long exposure and built up much more resistance to Eurasian germs than did Aboriginal Australians.
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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National Nurses Week: Common Medical Terms
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An American Plague
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