infectious disease
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- noun
- /ɪnˈfɛkʃəs dɪˈziːz/
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enfermedad infecciosa
- First, the world has witnessed an increasing number of new and re-emergent infectious diseases.
- infectious disease outbreak
- infectious disease transmission
- spread of infectious diseases
But if you subtract out the top eight causes of infectious diseases, it hasn't budged at all.
- But if you subtract out the top eight causes of infectious diseases, it hasn't budged at all.
- Moms carrying the placenta and fetus aren't more subject to infectious diseases, things like that.
- Your immune system is protecting you against infectious disease.
- Tony Fauci used that to say this is an infectious disease.
- The price of meat doesn't incorporate the health risks, the infectious diseases, the East coli infections, the salmonella.
- So vitamin D in the form of sunlight, you know, can help with certain infectious diseases.
- We have problems of emerging infectious diseases.
- In recent years, we've seen very few deaths from emerging and re emerging infectious diseases.
- That's why in our world, infectious diseases tend to get less virulent over time and not more.
- I worked on a different project having to do with outbreak detection for infectious diseases.
Examples
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Clinical and public health decisions about infectious diseases depend on the specific agents of infection.
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Perhaps you are trying to teach students how to prevent the spread of infectious diseases.
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Some 40 cases of the highly infectious disease have been confirmed.
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I do a lot of work in global health and infectious disease trials around the world.
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Please report any infectious diseases to the medical officers.
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Training should emphasize responsibility and improve awareness of common infectious diseases in the school setting.
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Scientists have long called upon mathematical modeling software to figure out how an infectious disease might spread.
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At least 65 percent of major recent human infectious disease outbreaks have animal origins.
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His primary research interests are infectious disease epidemiology and HIV treatment optimization.
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Some 40 cases of the highly infectious disease have been confirmed.
Synonyms
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A disease that spreads between people or animals, often by touch
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A disease that easily spreads between people
How Contagious
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is directly compositional: 'infectious' (able to be transmitted) modifies 'disease' (a medical condition), so a learner who knows both words will infer a disease that can be spread. This construction and logic are common across many languages, making the meaning immediately transparent to B1 learners.
Etymology
Infectious disease comes from the picture of something infectious—like a stain or a small spark—that moves from one person to another, so it means a disease that can 'spread' or be passed between people.