Synonyms for contagion
kənˈteɪ dʒəncon·ta·gion

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1. contagion

   Infection is frequently confused with contagion, even by medical men. The best usage now limits contagion to diseases that are transmitted by contact with the diseased person, either directly by touch or indirectly by use of the same articles, by breath, effluvia, etc. Infection is applied to diseases produced by no known or definable influence of one person upon another, but where common climatic, malarious, or other wide-spread conditions are believed to be chiefly instrumental.

   Synonyms:
   infection

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1. contagious disease, contagionnoun

   any disease easily transmitted by contact

   Synonyms:
   contagious disease, infection, transmission

2. infection, contagion, transmissionnoun

   an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted

   Synonyms:
   transmission, contagious disease, transmittance, transmittal, infection, transmitting, transmission system

3. contagion, infectionnoun

   the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people

   "a contagion of mirth"; "the infection of his enthusiasm for poetry"

   Synonyms:
   transmission, contagious disease, infection

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1. • Communication
   • Incident

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1. contagionnoun

   Synonyms:
   infection

2. contagionnoun

   Synonyms:
   contamination, taint

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1. contagionnoun

   Synonyms:
   virus, infection, contagium

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1. List of paraphrases for "contagion":

   infection, spill-over, spillover, spread, transmission, contamination

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1. Paul Offit:

   My gut says we're going to be able to contain this real quick -- we're going to be able to put a moat around this fire, i think this is going to be much more like SARS or MERS than the movie' Contagion.'.

2. Neil Dwane:

   Unlike 2010, the eurozone banking system is much better insulated from possible contagion following the latest negative developments in Greece, nevertheless, we would expect a markdown of EZ (eurozone) banks in particular as they have been recent strong performers and clear beneficiaries of the rather simplistic 'Europe is recovering' reflation trade.

3. Daniel Munoz:

   As a percentage of homicides, these mass killings are also accounting for more deaths. He believes its partially a byproduct of an angry and frustrated time that we are living in. Densley also said crime tends to go in waves with the 1970s and 1980s seeing a number of serial killers, the 1990s marked by school shootings and child abductions and the early 2000s dominated by concerns over terrorism. This seems to be the age of mass shootings, Densley said. EL PASO SHOOTING LEAVES 20 DEAD, 26 INJURED He and James Alan Fox, a criminologist and professor at Northeastern University, also expressed worries about the contagion effect, the focus on mass killings fueling other mass killings. These are still rare events. Clearly the risk is low but the fear is high, Fox said. What fuels contagion is fear. The mass shootings this year include the three in August in Texasand Daytonthat stirred fresh urgency,especially among Democratic presidential candidates, to restrict access to firearms. While the large death tolls attracted much of the attention, the killings inflicted a mental and physical toll on dozens of others. The database does not have a complete count of victims who were wounded, but among the three mass shootings in August alone, more than 65 people were injured. DAYTON, OHIO, SHOOTING THAT LEFT 9 DEAD, 27 HURT HALTED IN UNDER A MINUTE BY COPS WHO SHOT SUSPECT: MAYOR Daniel Munoz, 28, of Odessa, was caught in the crossfire ofthe shooting that took place between a 10-mile stretch in West Texas. He was on his way to meet a friend at a bar when he saw a gunman and the barrel of a firearm. Instinctively, he got down just as his car was sprayed with bullets. Munoz, who moved to Texas about a year ago to work in the oil industry, said he had actually been on edge since the Walmart shooting, which took place just 28 days earlier and about 300 miles (480 kilometers) away, worried that a shooting could happen anywhere at any time. He remembers calling his motherafter the El Paso shootingto encourage her to have a firearm at home or with her in case she needed to defend herself. He would say the same to friends, telling them before they went to a Walmart to bring a firearm in case they needed to protect themselves or others during an attack. BEFORE MASS SHOOTING, TEXAS GUNMAN WAS ON A LONG SPIRAL DOWN, INVESTIGATOR SAYS You cant just always assume youre safe. In that moment, as soon as the El Paso shooting happened, I was on edge.

4. Ewald Nowotny:

   It (a Greek exit) does not have that impact or potential impact on the euro zone as it would have had ... some two years ago. I really don't see a contagion in the financial and economic sense.

5. Luca Paolini:

   The economic weight of China is much, much bigger than its financial weight, i wouldn't put Chinese financial market volatility as the main risk for this year but if there's contagion from the Chinese economy to the U.S. and European economies, that's a much more dangerous development.