Infectious
/ɪnˈfekʃəs/adjective
Can be passed on to others through touch or close contact.
She has an infectious disease, so she should not interact closely with others to avoid spreading it.
Often appears as...
- infectious disease
- infectious bacteria
adjective
If a feeling or attitude is infectious, it influences others to feel or behave in a similar way.
Her enthusiasm is infectious, and it gets everyone excited about the project.
Often appears as...
- infectious enthusiasm
- infectious laughter
adjective
Can be spread or passed on as if causing sickness.
In the hospital, they have to take special precautions with infectious waste.
Often appears as...
- infectious waste
- infectious material
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Formal
adjective
Widely spread through leakage or infiltration.
Infectious malware has corrupted files across the network.
Often appears as...
- infectious malware
- infectious virus
Usage tips
Formal
adjective
Can be passed on to others through touch or close contact.
She has an infectious disease, so she should not interact closely with others to avoid spreading it.
Often appears as...
- infectious disease
- infectious bacteria
adjective
If a feeling or attitude is infectious, it influences others to feel or behave in a similar way.
Her enthusiasm is infectious, and it gets everyone excited about the project.
Often appears as...
- infectious enthusiasm
- infectious laughter
adjective
Can be spread or passed on as if causing sickness.
In the hospital, they have to take special precautions with infectious waste.
Often appears as...
- infectious waste
- infectious material
Usage tips
Formal
adjective
Widely spread through leakage or infiltration.
Infectious malware has corrupted files across the network.
Often appears as...
- infectious malware
- infectious virus
Usage tips
Formal
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Pro Tip 1/3Direct Transmission
Infectious suggests direct spreading from one person to another, not through air like 'airborne'.
Wash your hands to prevent spreading infectious germs.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Proximity
'Infectious' often involves being physically close to the source of infection.
Avoid close contact with those who might have infectious conditions.
Pro Tip 3/3Protective Measures
Using 'infectious' implies a need for precautions to protect oneself and others.
Doctors wear gloves to handle infectious materials safely.
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Why do we sweat? - John...
stimulate the hypothalamus to increase muscle activity, which in turn releases more energy as heat. That increases your overall temperature, a protective mechanism that makes your body less habitable for infectious agents. Like with running, sweating helps your body vent that heat. When the fever's over or you've won your race,
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How mucus keeps us...
This multi-pronged approach to bacterial management is one of the main reasons why we're not sick all the time. Even though mucus protects against the infectious bacteria, the vast majority of your body's bacterial tenants are not harmful, and many are actually beneficial.
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Making kindness viral PIPE...
- and that kindness is infectious and to them that was the coolest thing ever but the truth is I didn't realize the potential of these cards until one day I was coming home from school and it was really hot and there were these community service workers on the street
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Leana Wen: What your...
being willing to talk about medical errors, will increase patient trust, improve health outcomes, and reduce malpractice. That openness, that trust, is only going to be more important as we move from the infectious to the behavioral model of disease.
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Is human evolution...
sometimes combined with infectious diseases, would have killed us. Antibiotics, vaccines, clean water and good sanitation all make differences between our genes less important. Similarly, our ability to cure childhood cancers,
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How can we solve the...
We use them to cure infectious diseases, but also to safely facilitate everything from surgery to chemotherapy to organ transplants. Without antibiotics, even routine medical procedures can lead to life-threatening infections.
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When is a pandemic over?
Consider this unfortunately familiar scenario. Several months ago a highly infectious, sometimes deadly respiratory virus infected humans for the first time. It then proliferated faster than public health measures
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The science of cells...
but as a challenge, and this has led to a very important insight for all of we have control over the way we age all the way down into our cells. OK, now our initial curiosity became infectious.
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Plague 101 PIPE National...
mass sickness and devastation. But as much tragedy as the disease has caused, it also helped drive crucial scientific and social progress. Plague is an infectious disease
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Coyote Predators PIPE...
an all-clear signal when a threat or danger has passed whatever the meaning it's certainly infectious
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Why do we sweat? - John...
stimulate the hypothalamus to increase muscle activity, which in turn releases more energy as heat. That increases your overall temperature, a protective mechanism that makes your body less habitable for infectious agents. Like with running, sweating helps your body vent that heat. When the fever's over or you've won your race,
Video examples
How mucus keeps us...
This multi-pronged approach to bacterial management is one of the main reasons why we're not sick all the time. Even though mucus protects against the infectious bacteria, the vast majority of your body's bacterial tenants are not harmful, and many are actually beneficial.
Video examples
Making kindness viral PIPE...
- and that kindness is infectious and to them that was the coolest thing ever but the truth is I didn't realize the potential of these cards until one day I was coming home from school and it was really hot and there were these community service workers on the street
Video examples
Leana Wen: What your...
being willing to talk about medical errors, will increase patient trust, improve health outcomes, and reduce malpractice. That openness, that trust, is only going to be more important as we move from the infectious to the behavioral model of disease.
Video examples
Is human evolution...
sometimes combined with infectious diseases, would have killed us. Antibiotics, vaccines, clean water and good sanitation all make differences between our genes less important. Similarly, our ability to cure childhood cancers,
Video examples
How can we solve the...
We use them to cure infectious diseases, but also to safely facilitate everything from surgery to chemotherapy to organ transplants. Without antibiotics, even routine medical procedures can lead to life-threatening infections.
Video examples
When is a pandemic over?
Consider this unfortunately familiar scenario. Several months ago a highly infectious, sometimes deadly respiratory virus infected humans for the first time. It then proliferated faster than public health measures
Video examples
The science of cells...
but as a challenge, and this has led to a very important insight for all of we have control over the way we age all the way down into our cells. OK, now our initial curiosity became infectious.
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Plague 101 PIPE National...
mass sickness and devastation. But as much tragedy as the disease has caused, it also helped drive crucial scientific and social progress. Plague is an infectious disease
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Coyote Predators PIPE...
an all-clear signal when a threat or danger has passed whatever the meaning it's certainly infectious
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Pardis Sabeti
Iranian Scientist
Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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Paul Johnson
British Journalist
If anti-Semitism is a variety of racism, it is a most peculiar variety, with many unique characteristics. In my view as a historian, it is so peculiar that it deserves to be placed in a quite different category. I would call it an intellectual disease, a disease of the mind, extremely infectious and massively destructive.
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Skrillex
American Musician
The greatest gift of all time is that you can make creation infectious because people spend less time being negative... If you log all the time with negativity in the while world, I wonder how much better the world would be if people sat down and did something positive. It spirals.
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Harald zur Hausen
German Scientist
In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.
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Roberto Aguire
Mexican Actor
My grandmother is one of the biggest inspirations of my life. She was my biggest fan, and she made sure everybody knew it. Her never-ending joy was infectious, and there wasn't anyone who could beat her at partying and having fun.
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Jaboukie Young-White
American Comedian
There's an infectiousness to comedy. It's meant to be shared and spread, so I feel like any message that you're talking about through the vehicle of comedy is going to get further than if you just straightforwardly said it.
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Seth Berkley
American Scientist
By recognizing that infectious disease is not some faraway exotic issue but a global problem, and by sharing the responsibility for its prevention, diagnosis, and control, the whole world will be a lot safer.
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Sai Baba
Indian Leader
Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
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Sid Sriram
Indian Musician
I realised music was my calling, and I am one of those who's strongly bound by an infectious enthusiasm and passion.
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Tom McCarthy
American Director
The passion and knowledge of journalism as storytelling is incredibly infectious.
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Pardis Sabeti
Iranian Scientist
Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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Paul Johnson
British Journalist
If anti-Semitism is a variety of racism, it is a most peculiar variety, with many unique characteristics. In my view as a historian, it is so peculiar that it deserves to be placed in a quite different category. I would call it an intellectual disease, a disease of the mind, extremely infectious and massively destructive.
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Skrillex
American Musician
The greatest gift of all time is that you can make creation infectious because people spend less time being negative... If you log all the time with negativity in the while world, I wonder how much better the world would be if people sat down and did something positive. It spirals.
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Harald zur Hausen
German Scientist
In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.
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Roberto Aguire
Mexican Actor
My grandmother is one of the biggest inspirations of my life. She was my biggest fan, and she made sure everybody knew it. Her never-ending joy was infectious, and there wasn't anyone who could beat her at partying and having fun.
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Jaboukie Young-White
American Comedian
There's an infectiousness to comedy. It's meant to be shared and spread, so I feel like any message that you're talking about through the vehicle of comedy is going to get further than if you just straightforwardly said it.
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Seth Berkley
American Scientist
By recognizing that infectious disease is not some faraway exotic issue but a global problem, and by sharing the responsibility for its prevention, diagnosis, and control, the whole world will be a lot safer.
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Sai Baba
Indian Leader
Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
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Sid Sriram
Indian Musician
I realised music was my calling, and I am one of those who's strongly bound by an infectious enthusiasm and passion.
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Tom McCarthy
American Director
The passion and knowledge of journalism as storytelling is incredibly infectious.
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