Synonyms for infectious disease
in·fec·tious dis·ease

Princeton's WordNet

1. infectious diseasenoun

   a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact

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1. • Communicable Disease

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1. Alan Ashby:

   For the most part, the information has not changed all that much, we are following the leadership of the CDC( Center for Disease Control), they are our infectious disease experts in this country and we have a close partnership with them.

2. Jung Soon-kyun:

   Going through the MERS outbreak, the district government learned to build up an infectious disease response manual and store the necessary equipment, we are trying to respect infectious disease response manuals which prioritize early detection and testing.

3. Wail Hayajneh:

   I'm very sad because in pediatrics we believe in prevention, as an infectious disease person I think prevention is the core of dealing with infectious disease. Prevention is cheap, prevention is achievable, prevention in the United States is in the reach of our hands and we don't do it.

4. Lindsay Wiley:

   CMS has used its authority to influence things like flu vaccination rates among health workers, this isn't identical to what it's done in the past, but it's not as much of a step. Whereas with Occupational Safety and Health Administration, you can point to instances where they've addressed infectious disease risk, but... there are more steps between how the agency has used this authority in the past and how it's trying to use it now.

5. Robert Mulcahy:

   NASA's had a robust quarantine plan for a long time, it's nothing new for us. NASA implemented a prelaunch quarantine starting with the Apollo 14 mission( in 1971) because we saw some infectious disease occurrences in flight or in the preflight period for some of the earlier Apollo launches.