contagiousness

Contagiousness is in larger part a function of the messenger.

Instead, officials talked about the "contagiousness" of suicidal feelings among the girls.

Think, for a moment, about the concept of contagiousness.

We have, in our minds, a very specific, biological notion of what contagiousness means.

But most of us do not talk or write about the contagiousness of goodness.

"But there is a contagiousness with suicide," he said.

He is remembered for his experiments involving contagiousness of leprosy.

One reason: If unleashed, the virus can spread rapidly because of its extreme contagiousness.

A growing awareness of the contagiousness of disease was similarly spotty.

The audience determines the contagiousness of the conflict.

Another reason for the lack of honorable behavior was the sheer contagiousness of the illness.

Arline's contagiousness and her physical impairment each resulted from the same underlying condition, tuberculosis.

"I believe in Manhattan without therapy, the contagiousness of joy and the basic sweetness of life," she added.

Some critical disease characteristics that should be evaluated include virulence, distance traveled by victims, and level of contagiousness.

The contagiousness of joy, that's what it's all about, having someone to reinfect you when you get a little low."

Appropriate antibiotics decrease the average 3-5 day duration of symptoms by about one day, and also reduce contagiousness.

Such was the contagiousness of degradation.

Few aspects of a handicap give rise to the same level of public fear and misapprehension as contagiousness."

This helps to partly confirm a yawn's "contagiousness."

Contagious diseases can be spread by contact with or close proximity to an infected person, and there are varying degrees of contagiousness.

Its extreme contagiousness is also unexplained, though she said that might stem from its ability to multiply so fast.

Addai adores the contagiousness of that attitude.

Among Beck's papers may be specially mentioned his paper on laryngitis and several reviews on the contagiousness of yellow fever.

Each measure serves to characterize the disease giving valuable information about contagiousness, incubation period, duration, and mortality of the disease.

A recent study by the University of London has suggested that the "contagiousness" of yawns by a human will pass to dogs.