| It is scientifically acknowledged that the seaside is the least favourable, thanks to its auto-purifying action, for all types of contagions. |
| Recent Canadian studies found that cutbacks in housekeeping services in health care facilities were associated with the spread of infections of C. difficile, and other contagions. |
| Mortality rates dropped with the control of such contagions as smallpox, but tuberculosis continued to be a major problem that retarded population growth. |
| In perhaps the oddest twist of all, this most ferocious of contagions simply went away of its own accord, never to be seen again. |
| Indeed, you worry constantly about something or the other and you exaggerate with your fears of all sorts of contagions and diseases. |
| Microbiologists have known for some time that the great contagions that have periodically ravaged humanity have occurred in the context of intricate orchestrations of biology that we only now begin dimly to comprehend. |
