Contagiousness [noun]

The last several years have been terrible for measles, the highly contagious — and vaccine-preventable — childhood disease.

From surprise pregnancy announcements on Instagram to glam photo shoots starring their gorgeous baby bumps, these celebrity moms’ pregnancy glow was contagious in 2020.

What’s more, Woloshin said, the tests only tell you if you have the virus — not whether or when you are contagious.

An anti-chytrid microbe so acquired could be like a vaccine that’s contagious.

Its earliest origins, which probably date back to 16th-century China or possibly slightly later in India, involve the use of contagious fluids from smallpox victims to protect from future infection.

It finds more positives where people have had the disease and still have the virus in their body, even though they’re not contagious anymore.

One ongoing problem for contagious diseases is tracing with whom a sick person might have come into contact.

Mead most satisfactorily combats the opinions of the French physicians who maintained the non-contagiousness of the Plague.

In recent years the fact of its exhibiting a family tendency has been thought as much suggestive of contagiousness as of heredity.

The contagiousness of whooping cough continues about two months, or ceases before that time with the cessation of the cough.