How to Use infectious disease in a Sentence

infectious disease

noun
  • Then, days and weeks out, comes the emergence of the infectious disease.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 29 May 2024
  • The bubonic plague is an infectious disease caused by the Yersinia pestis bacteria.
    Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Hand contact with the mouth, nose and eyes—sometimes called the facial T-zone by infectious disease researchers—is the riskiest kind of face touching.
    Sabrina Sholts, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Now that same system will not only screen for infectious disease agents but for opioids as well.
    Alice Park, Time, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The infectious disease is caused by the Coccidioides fungus that grows in the soil and dirt in some areas ​of California.
    Bruce Haring, Deadline, 3 Aug. 2024
  • The plague is an infectious disease caused by a bacterium, Yersinia pestis, transmitted by fleas.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN, 10 July 2024
  • Sign up for Outbreaks Near Me and help medical researchers track infectious disease and save lives.
    Bob Hirshon, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Not every infectious disease has been linked to this kind of lasting dysfunction, Jiang said.
    Alexander Tin, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2023
  • One less enjoyable side effect of kissing in humans is the spread of infectious disease.
    Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 13 Feb. 2024
  • What Is Leprosy? Also known as Hansen’s disease, leprosy is an infectious disease that’s been around for thousands of years.
    Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 4 Aug. 2023
  • After all, this is a pathogen that has loomed large in the minds of infectious disease experts for its potential to cause a deadly human pandemic.
    Lisa Jarvis, Twin Cities, 10 May 2024
  • One thing parents should keep in mind: Hand-to-mouth contact is one of the primary ways children get exposed to toxic substances and infectious disease agents, Litt points out.
    Brittany Anas, House Beautiful, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Using wastewater or sewage, the CDC tests the water to see if there are any traces of an infectious disease within a community, the government agency says.
    Ahjané Forbes, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2024
  • One of the lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic should have been that controlling an infectious disease isn’t just a question of having diagnostic tests, treatments, and vaccines.
    Céline Gounder, STAT, 17 May 2024
  • Some infectious disease experts also believe that a change would better align with how many Americans are already treating the virus.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2024
  • An infectious disease specialist, House thrives on the challenge of solving medical puzzles in order to save lives.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Here’s what infectious disease experts say are the differences between summer and winter colds.
    Rachel Murphy, Verywell Health, 6 July 2023
  • But during the pandemic, more people thought about infectious disease.
    Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2024
  • And quite apart from the risks of infectious disease, health has social as well as biological determinants.
    Anne Fadiman, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Feb. 2023
  • Lyme disease, which can be transmitted by deer ticks, is the second most common infectious disease reported in Maine.
    Scistarter Team, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2023
  • Without enough infectious disease experts leading this charge, our efforts will surely fall short.
    Raul Ruiz, STAT, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Advocacy groups have argued J&J was preventing access in countries with the highest rates of the infectious disease.
    Ed Silverman, STAT, 30 Sep. 2023
  • But based on its increasing caseloads, experts like Scott Roberts, an infectious disease specialist at Yale University, predict this one will stick around through the winter.
    Popular Science, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Maybe not for this wave, immunologists and infectious disease experts said.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Published last week in the journal Nature, the findings suggest anthropogenic environmental changes are making the risk of infectious disease outbreaks all the more likely.
    Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2024
  • The explosion of home testing during the pandemic has changed how both patients and doctors approach diagnosis and treatment of infectious disease, Peaper says.
    Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2023
  • According to Insider, a 30-year-old man and woman went to their nearby infectious disease clinic with rashes that appeared on their bodies three days earlier.
    Kelsey Mulvey, House Beautiful, 5 July 2023
  • Another of the burials included remains in clothes instead of the typical Catholic shroud, indicating that the person likely died of an infectious disease.
    Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Most infectious disease experts agree with the recommendations made by the federal health agency.
    Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Women's Health interviewed four infectious disease experts break it down.
    Korin Miller, Women's Health, 7 Sep. 2023

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