| Or does the infection somehow permeate the entire environment, a contagion infecting everyone equally? |
| The text weaves between the two time frames, the past and the future, and in both people are dying of a mysterious contagion. |
| To cut down on crowds possibly spreading contagion, all the ice rinks, along with most other facilities, were temporarily closed. |
| Confidence in the underlying credit market has been undermined and contagion effects are spreading into adjacent markets. |
| 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. |
| Complaining deflates morale, makes you look weak, and creates an environment that breeds negativity like a contagion. |
