How To Use Contagion In A Sentence
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The reports of thefe pra&itioners are certainly favourable, in fome degree, to the idea of diluting the variolous contagion; however, many more fa&s are wanting deci - sively to edablifh the fuperiour advantage of this mode of inoculation..
The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan
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His violent menaces had extorted his readmission into the church, against which Cyprian protests with much vehemence: ne pecuniae commissae sibi fraudator, ne stuprator virginum, ne matrimoniorum multorum depopulator et corruptor, ultra adhuc sponsam Christi incorruptam praesentiae suae dedecore, et impudica atque incesta contagione, violaret.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1
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The concern now is that the contagion will spread from the financial system to the real economy.
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And international response to financial crises is an imperative to limit the contagion of panic and financial losses.
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Apocalypse comes cheap in the movies today: whatever happened to create the blasted and underpeopled landscapes of The Road, The Book Of Eli or Zombieland may have its far more plausible roots in something like what we see in Contagion.
Contagion is the latest change in Steven Soderbergh's chameleon career
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The spread of contagion and exit to other countries would be another matter.
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The weeping spread like contagion to Amma and our maid.
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The problem was not physical contagion which the word disease brings to mind.
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They have been reluctant to admit AIDS patients, in part because of unfounded fears of contagion.
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The text weaves between the two time frames, the past and the future, and in both people are dying of a mysterious contagion.
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To talk about an epidemic of obesity is like talking about a plague of inactivity or a contagion of overeating.
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The anti-contagionist, in acknowledging his ignorance, leaves the question open to examination; but the contagionist has solved the problem to his own mind, and closed the field of investigation, without, however, ceasing to denounce the antagonist who would disturb a conclusion which has given him so much contentment.
Letters on the Cholera Morbus. Containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those labouring under it to other individuals, by contact—through the medium of inanimate substances—or throug
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Few Japanese of the better classes have ever visited such a village; and even the poorest of the common people shun the place as they would shun a centre of contagion; for the idea of defilement, both moral and physical, is still attached to the very name of its inhabitants.
Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints
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The influence of non-Quakers in the place has been of late to quarantine such "leadings" and prevent social contagion.
Quaker Hill A Sociological Study
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Germany's mistake was to consider only first-order effects on bank capital, whereas it would be the second-order contagion effects on government and bank borrowing costs that would do the greatest damage.
Don't Believe These Greek Myths
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Just as a virus Brooks calls "Solanum" turns people into zombies, the four contagions we describe below can create a zombie workplace — where creative people and good ideas disturbingly molder.
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Now academics are conducting research into the issue at two schools as part of a three-year experiment into social and emotional contagion.
Times, Sunday Times
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As investors flew to safety, the contagion of fear spread, first to the other emerging markets, then to the equity markets of more developed nations.
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Confidence in the underlying credit market has been undermined and contagion effects are spreading into adjacent markets.
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To talk about an epidemic of obesity is like talking about a plague of inactivity or a contagion of overeating.
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There is no risk of contagion.
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The military historically follows standard civilian practice regarding contagion, diagnosis, and treatment.
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The fever, though it was October, had scarcely abated; indeed, on the contrary, it seemed to have revived and increased in virulency in consequence of the premature return of many people who had fled on its first appearance, and who in coming back too soon to the infected atmosphere, were less able to withstand contagion than those who remained.
Capitola's Peril A Sequel to 'The Hidden Hand'
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To cut down on crowds possibly spreading contagion, all the ice rinks, along with most other facilities, were temporarily closed.
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Why, Sir, a morceau like this, and from an honourable man, let him call himself contagionist or what he may, is more precious at this moment than Persian turkois or
Letters on the Cholera Morbus. Containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those labouring under it to other individuals, by contact—through the medium of inanimate substances—or throug
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These products keep the birds alive, even if they have the virus, which raises the risks of contagion when they are sold or transported.
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Get out your masks and TamiFlu everyone, cause he sprays a lot of spittle which is an excellent way of spreading contagion!
"GOP Know-Nothings Fought Pandemic Preparedness."
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As speculative contagion spread across the continent and technocratic placemen were imposed on Italy and Greece, David Cameron and George Osborne clashed with the German chancellor over the mortal threat of a 0.01% EU-wide tax on financial transactions.
The City of London isn't a national interest – it's a class interest | Seumas Milne
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Contagion," based on a script penned by Scott Z. Burns, is described as centering on a deadly disease with multiple plotlines in the same style as Soderbergh's "Traffic.
WatchersWatch.com
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He would, he said, ‘abandon his best friends and join with his worst enemies,’ to prevent the contagion of French ideas spreading to Britain.
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Although levels of perceived stress in the current study were high, stress burnout may be a qualitatively different state and may yield stronger contagion effects.
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The Count caught the popular contagion, and after exchanging tears and kisses with patriots whom a week before he had called canaille, he swore eternal fidelity to the
The Parisians — Complete
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This became even clearer in 1998 as the financial contagion spread throughout the emerging world.
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It had frequently been the practice of the Puritans to form certain assemblies, which they called "prophesyings;" where alternately, as moved by the spirit, they displayed their pious zeal in prayers and exhortations, and raised their own enthusiasm, as well as that of their audience, to the highest pitch, from that social contagion which has so mighty an influence on holy fervors, and from the mutual emulation which arose in those trials of religious eloquence.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I.
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As this gentleman _had been_ a contagionist, occupied a very responsible situation during the Moscow epidemic, and quotes time and place in support of his assertions, I consider his memoir more worthy of translation than fifty of your Keraudrens.
Letters on the Cholera Morbus. Containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those labouring under it to other individuals, by contact—through the medium of inanimate substances—or throug
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These documents give us our first clear understanding of how the tobacco contagion works.
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He felt that the hot breath floating across his cheek was heavy with contagion; he knew that fever raged and burned in the blue veins that swelled over those drooping arms and the unstockinged feet, but, he neither shrank nor trembled at the danger.
The Old Homestead
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There is also a risk of wider contagion of the debt crisis.
Times, Sunday Times
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Disease surveillance should be increased during floods, and information should be disseminated rapidly to dispel false rumours of contagion or outbreaks.
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But infection or contagion of the air could be caused by people too.
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The gate-keeping roll of the majority party, legislative calendars, and the Rules Committee are key factors in keeping out the contagion of new issues just for heresthetic purposes.
Archive 2006-07-01
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The risk of contagion throughout the banking system had to be managed and has been.
The Sun
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True, the rate of contagion from smallpox vaccine is low: Of every million people who get the vaccine, only about 30 would become contagious.
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You would assuredly repent of your temerity," said the obstinate contagionist.
Rattlin the Reefer
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This contagion was spreading at an alarming rate, thanks also to the society's growing yet harmful indifference.
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Last week, as investors worst fears about contagion from the debt crisis faded, Goldman returned to its more-bullish long-term leanings on the euro against the dollar and raised its euro forecasts back up to $1.35 in six months and $1.38 a year from now.
Euro Rally Is Prelude to a Fall
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The government was alarmed by two things above all - the impact of French notions of ‘self-determination’ on Britain's Low Country client states, and the contagion of ideas.
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The second, a wasting contagion, produces an entropic narrative of slow dying, finally petering away into ignominious extinction.
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Central bankers are especially worried about the contagion effect.
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This outrage may in fact have the opposite effect, by spreading a martyr's contagion.
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Like a virus on the Internet, this contagion spreads globally, especially as bigger companies shrink their advertising budgets.
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Now to find a way to exploit the "earworm" as a vector of cognitive contagion.
Blah blah blah blah blah & etc.
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Meanwhile, the contagion is spreading to beasts with no protected status.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now academics are conducting research into the issue at two schools as part of a three-year experiment into social and emotional contagion.
Times, Sunday Times
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That transformation has significantly reduced the risks of financial contagion from a crisis in one sector.
Times, Sunday Times
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Indeed, the contagion is spreading across this country.
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When the humors of the body could not be concocted, or when they contracted “a morbific blemish from this or that at - mospheric constitution” (ibid.), or when they turned poisonous because of a contagion, then they were
HEALTH AND DISEASE
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A letter of Dr. Percival's is fubjoined to - it, in which that ingenious writer offers fome pertinent obferva - tions on the grand articles, air, diet, and medicine, with a view to the preventing or correcting putrcfa£tive contagion in hofpitals, as far as the fame appears practicable on their prefenc cftabliftiment; and of thereby rendering them more falutary and fafe to the fick who refidc in them, and consequently more lifeful to the public.
The Monthly Review
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There's no logic to it, only a contagion of inferences.
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Fear spread through the crowd like a contagion , ie quickly and harmfully.
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Burning to the duck contagion syrup film, staphylococcus disease, streptococci disease, Ba Shi4's rod bacteria's being far-gone have already shown Zhao curative effect.
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Violence, like any contagion, will spread to new and new categories of victims, endlessly reducing the remnant of the saved until it is purified out of existence.
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But word about the product didn't spread by contagion alone.
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For scarlet fever patients were kept in hospital for six weeks and only allowed to speak to visitors through the window for fear of the contagion.
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Complaining deflates morale, makes you look weak, and creates an environment that breeds negativity like a contagion.
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circulation problems or blood vessel disorder diabetes history of bravery attack or compassion plague, vasospastic angina kidney disease liver cancer lung or breathing sickness, like asthma or emphysema pheochromocytoma slow marrow in any event thyroid contagion an curious or allergic counteraction to propranolol, other beta-blockers, medicines, foods, dyes, or preservatives pregnant or fatiguing to pick up heavy with child breast-feeding
Burning the Fat: Fueled by Fatuousness
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Could these be manipulated to reduce contagion?
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To the contagionist, filled as he is with the dread of final causes, having no faith in destiny nor in the fixed will of God, and with none of the devil-may-care indifference which might stand him instead of creeds — to such one, every rag that shivers in the breeze of a plague-stricken city has this sort of sublimity.
Eothen
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a contagion of mirth
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The sick and wounded avoid infecting each other and those who are well escape contagion.
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Thus whenever two groups are brought into contact and contagion, there is, by syncretism, a selection of the folkways which is destructive to some of them.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
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When I was at Pantheon, we received a memo saying every book that sold less than 2,000 copies a year should be pulped, as if it had a contagion that would have infected the other books in the warehouse.
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To talk about an epidemic of obesity is like talking about a plague of inactivity or a contagion of overeating.
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There's only one problem: the contagions we are now resistant to are not Measles, Mumps and Rubella.
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He hints the danger of contagion from this example: Your glorying is not good.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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We were accused and convicted of pulmonary phthisis, which is equivalent to the plague in the prejudices regarding contagion entertained by Spanish physicians.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
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Have those who purify contagion of air prevention and cure " Jin Taiyang is new-style sanitarian fuel, can light gas liquid gas to rival with the day;
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I have fretted that some journalists might take it upon themselves to spread the vile contagion of conscience.
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In perhaps the oddest twist of all, this most ferocious of contagions simply went away of its own accord, never (or, at least, not yet) to be seen again.
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When dark imaginations seek images that speak to fear of contagion and plague, rats scurrying out of garbage piles and sewer holes supply a metaphor for humans.
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Drains and sewers were known in ancient Rome, and when they were employed in the nineteenth century they were highly effective in reducing contagions.
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The observation that heated or long boiled pieces of gum lose their contagious property made it most probable that a living organism was concerned in the contagions; and he then found that only those pieces of the gum conveyed contagion in which, whether with or without bacteria, there were spores of a relatively highly organized fungus, belonging to the class of Ascomycetes; and that these spores, inserted by themselves under the bark, produced the same pathological changes as did the pieces of gum.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884.
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Deforestation and other radical ecosystem alterations also promote diseases, such as malaria and cholera, as well as new strains of existing contagions.
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The light of it caught like contagion, and touched the merest glancer at him with the spark of its warm, ironic mirth.
The Coast of Chance
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Shareholders were holding their heads in horror last Thursday watching the London stock market execute a 225-point freefall as the US contagion spread into the UK.
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Secondly, trials using viral vectors occasionally present risks to the public through transmission of transgenes or contagion.
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They have been reluctant to admit AIDS patients, in part because of unfounded fears of contagion.
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She was exposed to the contagion of the scarlatina at the same time, and sickened almost at the same hour.
On Vaccination Against Smallpox
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Extending from one end to the other is a great concatenation of human bodies linked by their reaching, touching, grasping, and leaning, each creating a dangerous possibility of human-to-human contagion.
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Since then, this defiance has spread like a contagion.
Times, Sunday Times
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Children are to be found in it as well, waiting till their fathers and mothers are ready to go home, sipping from the glasses of their elders, listening to the coarse language and degrading conversation, catching the contagion of it, familiarising themselves with licentiousness and debauchery.
DRINK, TEMPERANCE, AND THRIFT
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Both were meant to offer protection against financial contagion but both spread it dangerously.
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Because of the risk of financial contagion.
Times, Sunday Times
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Meanwhile the trade ship requested the bodies of the colonists, and upon being told they had burned the settlement to prevent spread of the contagion, could do nothing further in the system so moved on.
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That looks less persuasive now that contagion is spreading anyway.
Times, Sunday Times
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They have been reluctant to admit AIDS patients, in part because of unfounded fears of contagion.
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Most countries indulging in censorship claim to be protecting their citizens from pornographic contagion.
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As a consequence, they would have come in contact with a vast array of other animals at the periphery of their habitat, which conceivably could have transferred a disease contagion to the great herds of the plains.
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Unbeknownst to this merry quintet, in those same woods, a hermit finds his dog, dead and decimated, apparently the recipient of a brutal flesh-eating contagion.
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Soros, chairman of Soros Fund Management who made a fortune during the 1992 sterling crisis, said the most important task was to "erect safeguards against contagion from a possible Greek default.
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It did little to stem the contagion.
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His first instinct was to explain the risks of moral hazard rather than to stem contagion.
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A liquid talisman against a new brand of contagion.
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I address myself not to the young enthusiast only, but to the ardent devotee of truth and virtue the pure and passionate moralist yet unvitiated by the contagion of the world.
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It will show the handling problems that spread like a contagion through the team.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fever, though it was October, had scarcely abated; indeed, on the contrary, it seemed to have revived and increased in virulency in consequence of the premature return of many people who had fled on its first appearance, and who in coming back too soon to the infected atmosphere, were less able to withstand contagion than those who had remained.
The Hidden Hand
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Terms like "roiled" and "contagion" are insider words for a spreading panic.
Danny Schechter: "Contagion" Could Lead to a Financial Tsunami
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The revolutionary contagion spread and the diaspora provided, at least in the American republic, a climate in which plots against the union thrived.
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We have another contagionist in the field -- a writer in the _Foreign
Letters on the Cholera Morbus. Containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those labouring under it to other individuals, by contact—through the medium of inanimate substances—or throug
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Kennedy and the best of the contagionist authors, have fixed the intervening time from two days to a longer uncertain period; yet that writer (in the LANCET) proceeds to tell us, in proof of the virulence of the contagion, that when twenty healthy reapers went into the harvest field at Swedia, near
Letters on the Cholera Morbus. Containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those labouring under it to other individuals, by contact—through the medium of inanimate substances—or throug
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Now academics are conducting research into the issue at two schools as part of a three-year experiment into social and emotional contagion.
Times, Sunday Times
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(The researchers specifically measured a feature known as sensorimotor contagion, as indicated by changes in the corticospinal reactivity assessed by transcranial magnetic stimulation.)
Daily News & Analysis
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The circulating nurse calls the attending pathologist and informs him or her of the possible contagion.
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Mortality rates dropped with the control of such contagions as smallpox, but tuberculosis continued to be a major problem that retarded population growth.
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This "we" is a character in its own right, experiencing Marstal's cycles of birth and death, becoming infected by the contagions of violence or rallied to higher self-sacrificing causes.
Going to Sea Once More
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Water-falling was delivered from the contagion of the pestilence, Rocke went to the city of Cesena which is a great city of Italy, which no less pestilence vexed, and he in a short space delivered it from the pestilence.
The Golden Legend, vol. 5
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No contagionist, however unscrupulous and enthusiastic, nor quarantine authority however vigilant, can pretend to say how the disease has been introduced at the different points of Sunderland, Haddington, and Kirkintulloch, -- no more than he can tell why it has appeared at Doncaster, Portsmouth, and an infinity of other places without spreading.
Letters on the Cholera Morbus. Containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those labouring under it to other individuals, by contact—through the medium of inanimate substances—or throug
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Later, it's suggested by Dr Bishop that it may be a "leprotic contagion." (i.e. leprosy based).
Polite Dissent
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Without a doubt, anyone who saw the movie Contagion would label infectious diseases a pressing public health crisis.
Linda Rosenberg: A Silent Public Health Crisis
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Any attempt to stop the process of incubation, after the contagion has once been received within the body, or to prevent its being thrown out upon the surface, would destroy the patient's life: the morbid poison must be concocted, and it _must come away by being drawn to the skin as soon as possible_, to prevent its settling in the vital parts, and injuring them.
Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms
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So is the fear that financial contagion will spread.
Times, Sunday Times
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The local daily never having printed the word, the contagion was spread almost exclusively among the hospital staff, in whom the disease lay latent for the month of July.
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They are condemned, and they deludedly believe that they are commanded, to spread the contagion and to visit hell upon the unrighteous.
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Despite this awful reality, there are still things states can do to at least contain the risk of contagion within their populations.
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Not everyone in a city with a smallpox contagion is going to catch it, so the overall mortality for a population center would be less than that.
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When one lies with the sick one, the suffering and the moanings invade the space, invade one's own body, depress and devitalize in the contagion of suffering.
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A liquid talisman against a new brand of contagion.
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The methodology employed by the underlying index of USCI seeks to minimize the harmful effects of contagion by favoring commodities in backwardation (positive roll-yield) and longer-term contracts," he explains.
Guru Picks: Five Gold And Commodity Best Buys
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And Downing Street is worried about its contagion, its debilitating effect on UK democracy and the cure.
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Fear of contagion from violence ‘up there’ became widespread.
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But it has gone too far when the contagion spreads to these shores.
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By the 1690s, Spinoza's ideas could be found in all the bookshops, and even polemics against him served only to spread the intellectual contagion.
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Thus encouraged, Vincent at once commenced his work with zeal and without fear, he hurried into the scenes of contagion and entered the dwellings of disease and death.
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What has in fact happened is something closer to financial contagion, as many of the original mortgage borrowers have defaulted.
Times, Sunday Times
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Outlining what they describe as spreading contagion and a sovereign debt crisis which they say has "entered a new phase," officials highlight the difficulties experienced by European banks in borrowing.
Reuters: Top News
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This pathology is the contagion or stain produced by the cognitive business of feeling and thinking about the world, which business halts with traumatically abrupt force, the world's nature lingering far past it and caring nothing for it, like the blind triumph of
Introduction
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ATHENS Reuters - 'Contagion' is the label financial markets use for the economic spread of the Greek crisis.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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Science, like any other human endeavor, is susceptible to human psychoneuroses (Pathologies?) and these can even be spread like a contagion.
Arguing in the Streets
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Or does the infection somehow permeate the entire environment, a contagion infecting everyone equally?
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His official report on the insect for 1872 had particularly examined the "means of contagion from one vine to another'.
PHYLLOXERA: How Wine was Saved for the World
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The contagion has spread to other countries and since there is no certainty about how the virus is transmitted, there is uncertainty about how to cope with it.
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In the past, an honor system prevented this contagion of broken trust.
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So away she sped by a lonely little foot-path, where nobody could take from her contagion of bad morals; and avoiding the incline of boats, she made off nicely for the quiet outer bay, and there, upon a shelfy rock, she sat and breathed the sea.
Mary Anerley
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There is a risk of political contagion, too.
Times, Sunday Times
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As the contagion of revolutionary ideas spread to Italy, every government, princely or republican, strove to repress it.
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We still suggest woolen hoods for the Fourth of July picnics, but you can open a window now without fear of dread contagion.
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Other authors under consideration in this book also developed fictions that explicitly deal with political fears of cultural contagion in an age of imperialism.
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All laws of quarantine have their origin and basis in the concept of disease transmission by contagion.
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Teachers want to be able to spot the real culprit when the emotional contagion is negative.
Times, Sunday Times
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The consumer really will start retrenching, and the contagion will spread to the retail and service sectors with more job losses ensuing.
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The scientists warned against complacency, saying that the risk of contagion can only be reduced and delayed - but not eliminated - by present measures to cull and contain, and by the end of the flu season.
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Si igitur reuerendos facere nequeunt dignitates, si ultro improborum contagione sordescunt, si mutatione temporum splendere desinunt, si gentium aestimatione uilescunt, quid est quod in se expetendae pulchritudinis habeant, nedum aliis praestent?
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
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The old school hypothesis and the deductions therefrom would seem therefore, to be this: That a super-malignant contagium imported from some foreign source falls upon organisms predisposed to infection by mental stress or physical privation and over-strain or both combined; and the contagion thus generated through the medium of some unsuspected
Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration
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Then, in 1998, came the Russian default - and with it, fear that the contagion would spread, and economy after economy would fall ill and roll over dead.
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Crusher was able to isolate the contagion, produce a counteragent, and inoculate both mother and child.
Star Trek: TNG: Losing the Peace
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The results also support hypothesis 5, that positive emotional contagion will lead to less group conflict.
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The most affecting scenes in the novel are those depicting the decimation wrought by this plague-like contagion.
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Still another category includes what might loosely be called medical terms: anatomist, cad-wagon, cachexy, cataplasm, cholera sermon, resurrectioner, and of course the contagionist, meteorastic, and telluric schools of medicine.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 4
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Recessionary risks in the US, and widespread foot-and-mouth contagion in Europe could mean further short-term weakness.
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When that nomenclature crossed the Atlantic to the United States in 1869, Harper’s Weekly put it that Liverpool was informing the State Department that “a contagion called murrain, or hoof-and-mouth disease, has broken out.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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Meanwhile, the contagion is spreading to beasts with no protected status.
Times, Sunday Times
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He noted also that Carter had had swabs taken from the sarcophagus and sampled ‘specimens of air’ because of fear of contagion but these had been ‘absolutely sterile.’
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Teachers want to be able to spot the real culprit when the emotional contagion is negative.
Times, Sunday Times
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For example, the controversial nature of inoculation at the time, not least the risk of contagion, ensured clashing attitudes and very different regulatory regimes.
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Hugh, one of the great worries is contagion and disease that follows something like this if the water supply is not adequate.
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These financial instruments then, instead of containing risk, spread contagion across the world banking system.
Times, Sunday Times
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He continued: ‘The danger is disorder, and in today's world it now spreads like contagion.’
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As soon as the skin shows a tendency to become scaly, apply goose grease or clean lard with a little boracic acid powder dusted in it, or better, perhaps, carbolized vaseline to relieve the itching and prevent the scales from being scattered about, and subjecting others to the contagion.
Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics
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In his 1926 book, Crooke included Hutton's tale as an example of disease riddance by passing a sealed container of contagion; he omitted the Naga storyteller's passing reference to the gift of clothing.
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August 20, 2008 at 6:36 am sank yoo…ai kina feelz liek ai has teh dumb 2dai. nawt enuff sleepiez, tew menny nitemaers frum wachin peeps plaein Contagion las nite. duz we haz a lil yawny faec?
Thank you… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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However, stigma is much more than fear of contagion; it is also a tool used by cultures to exclude those felt to have broken extant rules.
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I heard that they spread their contagion through scratches made by their claws.
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A saint who dwells in a paroxysm of abnegation is a dangerous neighbor; he might communicate to you, by contagion, an incurable poverty, an anchylosis of the joints, which are useful in advancement, and in short, more renunciation than you desire; and this infectious virtue is avoided.
Les Miserables
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The confluence of invisibility, indeterminacy, and contagion understandably generates anxiety and encourages behaviour that reduces risk of exposure.
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Done properly, quarantine could often halt further contagion.
