Contagious Disease

A Contagious Disease is a transmissible disease that ...

• Context:
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• Example(s):
  • Measles.
  • Influenza.
  • COVID-19.
  • Black Plague.
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Non-contagious Transmissible Disease, such as Malaria.
  • Yellow Fever
  • Filariasis.
• See: Physical Contact, Casual Contact.

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References

2020

• (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/contagious_disease Retrieved:2020-3-22.
  • A contagious disease is a subset category of transmissible diseases, which are transmitted to other persons, either by physical contact with the person suffering the disease, or by casual contact with their secretions or objects touched by them or airborne route among other routes. Contagiousness varies between diseases. Non-contagious infections, by contrast, usually require a special mode of transmission between persons or hosts. These include need for intermediate vector species (mosquitoes that carry malaria) or by non-casual transfer of bodily fluid (such as transfusions, needle sharing or sexual contact).

    The boundary between contagious and non-contagious infectious diseases is not perfectly drawn, as illustrated classically by tuberculosis, which is clearly transmissible from person to person, but was not classically considered a contagious disease. In the present day, most sexually transmitted infections are considered contagious, but only some of them are subject to medical isolation.

    A disease may be known to be contagious but its causative factors remain undetermined. A contagion may be more infectious if the incubation period is long.

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