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How to use contagion in a sentence

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Secondly, trials using viral vectors occasionally present risks to the public through transmission of transgenes or contagion.
The most affecting scenes in the novel are those depicting the decimation wrought by this plague-like contagion.
And Downing Street is worried about its contagion, its debilitating effect on UK democracy and the cure.
Not everyone in a city with a smallpox contagion is going to catch it, so the overall mortality for a population center would be less than that.
This contagion was spreading at an alarming rate, thanks also to the society's growing yet harmful indifference.
All laws of quarantine have their origin and basis in the concept of disease transmission by contagion.
Despite this awful reality, there are still things states can do to at least contain the risk of contagion within their populations.
These documents give us our first clear understanding of how the tobacco contagion works.
The sick and wounded avoid infecting each other and those who are well escape contagion.
These products keep the birds alive, even if they have the virus, which raises the risks of contagion when they are sold or transported.
Confidence in the underlying credit market has been undermined and contagion effects are spreading into adjacent markets.
Or does the infection somehow permeate the entire environment, a contagion infecting everyone equally?
Complaining deflates morale, makes you look weak, and creates an environment that breeds negativity like a contagion.
As the contagion of revolutionary ideas spread to Italy, every government, princely or republican, strove to repress it.
The problem was not physical contagion which the word disease brings to mind.
Recessionary risks in the US, and widespread foot-and-mouth contagion in Europe could mean further short-term weakness.
Hugh, one of the great worries is contagion and disease that follows something like this if the water supply is not adequate.
The circulating nurse calls the attending pathologist and informs him or her of the possible contagion.
The military historically follows standard civilian practice regarding contagion, diagnosis, and treatment.
The text weaves between the two time frames, the past and the future, and in both people are dying of a mysterious contagion.
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Examples from Classical Literature
There was a sort of contagion of purposefulness in this eccentric small group on the Esperance.
I see already that from the world, vile as it is, you have nothing of contagion to fear.
The old sores which are bathed have nothing to fear, and offer no risk of contagion.
The very spectacle of that form which I had learned to love is mildew and contagion to my eyes.
When the cure is effected, let the clothes be carefully fumigated with sulphur, or the contagion will again be communicated.
The contagion passes through personal contact, or through clothing and bed linen.
Has the child been exposed to the contagion of measles, small-pox, or scarlatina?
This seizure isn't alarming and there is absolutely no danger of contagion.
The more common means of contagion is by direct contact or by means of fomites.
He grew able to resist the contagion of her sensualism and to make her happy, without essentially occupying himself.
They've made preparations to fight any imaginable contagion you could drop on them.
Ben laughed so heartily, so insinuatingly, the contagion of his fun could not be resisted.
The lungs thus become a ready inlet to contagion, miasmata, and other poisonous influences diffused through the air we breathe.
But on account of the low, mean lives so many are living, they never rise above the miasmic contagion of the sin and self level.
If a strictly parasitic organism, like the contagion of pleuropneumonia, it might be completely extirpated in this way.
Professor Schnlein also considers that the contagion of puerperal fever has the greatest similarity with hospital gangrene.
So that in both these cases fever commenced in half a lunation after the contagion was received.
What a ring-fence of horror and contagion for all comers and goers to overpass!
There was an epidemic of baseness over the land, and but few escaped the contagion.
Children are even more apt, if possible, than grown people, to catch the contagion of a panic terror.
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