Phrases with «communicable»

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The word "communicable" means that something can be transferred or spread from one person to another. It refers to a disease or infection that can be passed on from one individual to another through various means, such as through physical contact, respiratory droplets, or contamination. It suggests that the condition can be transmitted in a way that enables it to be shared or communicated between people. Full definition

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At the end of his presentation Mr Bowles mentioned briefly that there were some small allocations of funding for programs targeting Indigenous Australians, such as $ 10.5 m over four years for a Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder prevention program, $ 4.5 million to reduce the risks of communicable diseases in the Torres Strait region and $ 0.4 m to extend the existing National Partnership Agreement on the rhematic fever strategy. (croakey.org)
In 2006, the World Health Organisation (WHO) published four volumes of guidelines on the safe use of wastewater, to which Caroline Schönning, a microbiologist at the Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control, contributed. (scientificamerican.com)
Kamal Krishna Datta, director of the National Institute of Communicable Diseases in Delhi, believes the earthquake could have disturbed underground rat populations that carry the infection. (newscientist.com)
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