Contagious disease
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A disease communicable by contact with a patient suffering fromit, or with some secretion of, or object touched by, such a patient.Most such diseases have already been proved to be germ diseases, andtheir communicability depends on the transmission of the livinggerms. Many germ diseases are not contagious, some special method oftransmission or inoculation of the germs being required.
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