How to Use infectious disease in a Sentence

infectious disease

noun

• These tumor cells can spread from one individual to another, like an infectious disease.
  — Bychristie Wilcox, science.org, 17 Sep. 2024
• 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
• That’s the viral strain behind this new outbreak, and why infectious disease scientists are so alarmed.
  — David Cox, WIRED, 15 Aug. 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

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024