Phrases with «communicable diseases»

"Communicable diseases" refers to illnesses that can be easily spread from one person to another, usually through close contact or exposure to infectious agents such as viruses or bacteria. Examples include the flu, colds, measles, or COVID-19. Full definition

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Sentences with «communicable diseases»

  • It's oddly unsatisfying to know that, when the kid in rural India drowns in the raging flood waters or dies of communicable diseases spread by global climate change, he will have had some quality time for reading at night beforehand. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
  • Backup plan Sven Hoffner, a clinical mycobacteriologist at the Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control in Solna, says that drug - resistant tuberculosis is «a manmade problem», often because drugs are not available or of poor quality. (scientificamerican.com)
  • 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)
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