spread of disease
Pathogen moving between hosts
The spread of disease is how illness moves through a population—from person to person, through contaminated water, via insects, or by other means.
Public health measures aim to limit spread: Vaccines slow the spread of disease, Poor sanitation accelerates the spread of disease.
The phrase appears in discussions of epidemics, quarantine policy, and infection control.
- contagionDisease spread by contact
- outbreakSudden eruption of trouble
- epidemicWidespread disease occurrence
- pandemicGlobal disease outbreak
- going viralSpreading rapidly online
infection · transmission · virus · plague · social distancing · contact tracing · contamination · carrier · fever · cough · sneeze · airborne · droplets · contact · washing hands · immunity · vaccine · vector
spread of diseasecontainment
Preventing hostile expansion
eradication · elimination · remission · die-off · abatement
spread of diseasedisease prevention
Measures blocking illness onset
disease control · quarantine · isolation · immunization · prophylaxis
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