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contagious
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contagious adjective catching, communicable, contaminating, conveyable, epidemic, impartible, infective, pathogenic, pestiferous, spreading, transmissible, transmissive
See also: pestilent


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Contagiousness is minimal or nonexistent once more than 24 hours have passed since the last fever above 100 degrees.
Severity has to do with the virulence of the influenza virus (ability to cause significant illness and death) and the contagiousness of the virus (ability to rapidly move through a significant proportion of the community).
As to the contagiousness of the Swine Flu, Mohannad Kafri, a clinical nutritionist, claims that the virus could be very contagious worldwide, considering that a high percentage of the world's population tend to depend on farming and raise pigs among the animals on their farms to generate income.
 
 
 
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