contagion

In addition, the protests had been largely contained to very specific areas and the fear of contagion never materialized.

As scary as contagion can seem, nobody should be panicking, no matter which virus happens to be making the headlines.

Further, the contagion effect of suicide and the resultant attention to it is a well-documented phenomenon.

But although desire cannot be imparted by argument, it can be by contagion.

In fact, we have been inoculated from the experience of contagion.

It may be transmitted through the air for short distances, not nearly so far as the air will carry the contagion of smallpox.

The contagion is spread just as that of smallpox is spread, except that it is not carried through the air so far.

The specific cause of typhus is unknown, but the contagion develops and reproduces itself in the body of the patient.

Curiously enough, for the next two days and nights a perfect contagion of watching seemed to have spread through the village.

Wedding-cards have been pouring in till the contagion has reached us; Edith will be married next Thursday.