A contagious disease is an infectious disease that is readily spread (that is, communicated) by transmission of a pathogen through contact (direct or...

The Contagious Diseases Acts (CD Acts) were originally passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom in 1864 (27 & 28 Vict. c. 85), with alterations...

contagious diseases when they are easily transmitted by contact with an ill person or their secretions (e.g., influenza). Thus, a contagious disease is...

plague of Athens, that diseases could spread from an infected person to others. One theory of the spread of contagious diseases that were not spread by...

possessions. The Indian Contagious Disease Acts were similar in content, but wider in scope than the domestic Contagious Disease Acts. These Acts were meant...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. The first known case was identified in Wuhan, China...

alkaloids produced by fungi of the genus Claviceps Aspergillosis, a non-contagious disease caused when birds inhale Aspergillus spores that cause breathing to...

for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved 15 June 2017. Couch, Alan John (1983). The Development of, and Host Response to, Ovine Contagious Pustular...

contagious in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Contagious may refer to: Contagious disease Contagious (magazine), a marketing publication Contagious (novel)...

encompassed both a general hospital and a separate pavilion-style contagious disease hospital. The hospital had two functions: treating immigrants who...

Infectious bursal disease (IBD), also known as Gumboro disease, infectious bursitis, and infectious avian nephrosis, is a highly contagious disease of young chickens...

time progressed, regulations on prostitutes increased under the Contagious Diseases Acts, and Cape Town saw a rise in both European prostitutes and prostitution...

island's north side. As part of the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital, the contagious disease hospital comprised 17 pavilions, connected with a central connecting...

fictional diseases, diseases found only in works of fiction. Airborne disease, a disease that spreads through the air. Contagious disease, a subset of...

Noma is an opportunistic rather than contagious infection. No single pathogen has been associated with the disease (the causative organisms are common...

contagion De Contagione et Contagiosis Morbis (On Contagion and Contagious Diseases), published in 1546: "I call fomites [from the Latin fomes, meaning...

a diseased state. Only some diseases such as influenza are contagious and commonly believed infectious. The microorganisms that cause these diseases are...

Corporation. 2 September 2015. Siddle HV (April 2017). "Cancer as a contagious disease". HLA. 89 (4): 209–214. doi:10.1111/tan.12980. PMID 28205368. S2CID 1557336...

family hiding in a forest as the Earth is taken over by a highly contagious disease. The film had its premiere at the Overlook Film Festival at Timberline...

immunity) is a form of indirect protection that applies only to contagious diseases. It occurs when a sufficient percentage of a population has become...

Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP – also known as lung plague), is a contagious bacterial disease that afflicts the lungs of cattle, buffalo, zebu...

infectious disease, is known as protective sequestration. Contagious diseases can spread to others through various forms. Four types of infectious disease transmission...

was removed soon after, and has since shown no sign of reoccurrence. Contagious cancers are known to occur in dogs, Tasmanian devils, Syrian hamsters...

Zymotic disease was a 19th-century medical term for acute infectious diseases, especially "chief fevers and contagious diseases (e.g. typhus and typhoid...

the campaign to repeal the Contagious Diseases Acts, legislation that attempted to control the spread of venereal diseases—particularly in the British...

Infectious disease on cruise ships is a hazard associated with cruises. Outbreaks of contagious diseases can spread quickly due to the confined cruise...

or Contagious Disease? Changing Perceptions of Smallpox in the Late Edo Period." p.1 Rotermund, Hartmut O. "Demonic Affliction or Contagious Disease? Changing...

Diseases, disorders, infections, and pathogens have appeared in fiction as part of a major plot or thematic importance. They may be fictional psychological...

the mysterious source of a contagious disease. Tsutsui conceived of the plot after reading a novel on bacterial diseases, which led him to research the...

Virulent Newcastle disease (VND), formerly exotic Newcastle disease, is a contagious viral avian disease affecting many domestic and wild bird species;...