infectiousadjective
uk/ɪnˈfek.ʃəs/us/ɪnˈfek.ʃəs/C2 (of a disease) able to be passed from one person, animal, or plant to another:
an infectious disease
C2 able to pass a disease from one person, animal, or plant to another:
an infectious patient
After the 21-day isolation period, Ebola survivors are no longer infectious.
C2 Something that is infectious has an effect on everyone who is present and makes them want to join in:
an infectious laugh
infectious enthusiasm
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Passing on illness & causing disease
- carrier
- carry
- catch
- communicable
- epidemic
- harbour
- incubate
- infect
- infected
- insalubrious
- mediastinum
- non-communicable
- prophylactic
- transmission
- transmit
- unhygienic
- vector
- verminous
- virulence
- virulent
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