contagious disease
contagion

"I might at least be able to tell you whether it's a contagious disease or not."

If her husband was found to have a dangerous or contagious disease.

He stopped a short distance away from them, as if they might have some sort of contagious disease.

He said the word as though it was some highly contagious disease.

I saw no evidence of any contagious diseases during all my stay.

In the last month, a 4-year-old boy and a 20-month-old girl died of the highly contagious disease.

Has had recent exposure to someone with a contagious disease.

He wondered if the Indian had died of a contagious disease.

In 1989 there were 18,000 cases of this highly contagious disease, with 40 deaths.

"In your father's notes, is there any mention of a contagious disease here?"