infectious disease

infectious disease
A disease caused by bacteria, virus, or other parasite in the body. A disease likely to be spread to other persons by infection. A disease which presupposes a cause acting by hidden influences, like the miasma of prison ships or marshes, or through the pollution of water or the atmosphere, or from the various dejections from animals. As applied to Texas fever, if it were infectious, it would be communicated by cattle carrying the germs of the disease from the infected district, and depositing them upon the range and waters occupied by other cattle susceptible to the infection, so that they would become infected therefrom. Grayson v Lynch, 163 US 468, 477, 41 L Ed 230, 233, 16 S Ct 1064. An infectious disease may or may not be contagious, that is, communicable by contact or body exhalation. Grayson v Lynch, 163 US 468, 41 L Ed 230, 16 S Ct 1064.

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