contagion
传染,传染性,传染病,传播
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Definitions
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- : the communication of disease by direct or indirect contact.
- : a disease so communicated.
- : the medium by which a contagious disease is transmitted.
- : harmful or undesirable contact or influence.
- : the ready transmission or spread as of an idea or emotion from person to person: a contagion of fear.
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Standard vaccine studies involve thousands of participants, must recruit in areas where contagion is naturally high, and typically take months or even years as researchers wait to see how many people contract the disease.
Facing flare-ups from late June through August that were sometimes higher than the initial spread of contagion, countries initially refrained from blanket orders.
The World Health Organization acknowledged the airborne spread of particles in July and hundreds of scientists have written about this form of contagion.
Hungary’s decision to close its borders is based on its own “traffic light system” for contagion risk, which currently shows Hungary as green and everyone else as red.
There are a lot of upsides to urban density — but viral contagion is not one of them.
In addition, the protests had been largely contained to very specific areas and the fear of contagion never materialized.
As scary as contagion can seem, nobody should be panicking, no matter which virus happens to be making the headlines.
Further, the contagion effect of suicide and the resultant attention to it is a well-documented phenomenon.
But although desire cannot be imparted by argument, it can be by contagion.
In fact, we have been inoculated from the experience of contagion.
It may be transmitted through the air for short distances, not nearly so far as the air will carry the of smallpox.