How to Use communicable in a Sentence

communicable

adjective
Definition of communicablenext
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  • Smallpox and the spread of communicable disease was very much on the minds of the school systems in Maryland in this era.
    — Kevin Dayhoff, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 26 Mar. 2021
  • The last step is a medical check to ensure refugees will not spread a communicable disease in the U.S.
    — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2022
  • In fact, Arizona tribes aren't required by law to report communicable diseases to the state, although many do.
    — Chelsea Curtis, azcentral, 4 June 2020
  • Bushmeat comes from wild animals in certain parts of the world like Africa and may pose communicable disease risk.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Over the last decade there has been growing concern that so much of the way health systems are structured across Africa is set up to handle communicable diseases like malaria.
    — Uwagbale Edward-Ekpu, Quartz Africa, 16 Nov. 2020
  • In Asia, mask wearing has been widely accepted as a way to prevent the spread of communicable diseases.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2021
  • But unlike horseshoes and hand grenades, close doesn't cut it for communicable diseases.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Ebola is among the most high profile of these communicable diseases.
    — Aryn Baker, Time, 17 Apr. 2020
  • So, barring any other run-ins with fast-spreading communicable illnesses, the show will go on.
    — oregonlive, 18 Apr. 2022
  • For me, wanting to bail out of my job as a primary care physician has nothing to do with the risk of contracting Covid-19 or any other communicable disease.
    — Russell Johnson, STAT, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The steps needed to control a Covid-19 outbreak within a school would be similar to steps taken for any outbreak of a communicable disease in a school, such as measles, Schaffner said.
    — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Even the act of fleeing can put people in environments that give communicable diseases the upper hand.
    — Karen Kaplanscience and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Hou Vang, a county communicable disease specialist, asks a pregnant woman standing in the shade of a tree outside her home.
    — Kristen Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The prisons’ over-crowding and under-resourced system, Willis said, amounts to a breeding ground for communicable diseases.
    — Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Among them was Jim Murphy, a veteran of almost 33 years at the state’s Department of Health and head of its communicable diseases division.
    — Mollie Simon, ProPublica, 7 Sep. 2022
  • At the time, medical science was ill-equipped to manage rising rates of communicable disease, leaving art to help fill a need to comprehend and process illness.
    — Elizabeth Lee, The Conversation, 31 July 2020
  • That also would increase the risk of communicable diseases.
    — Sophia Tareen, Star Tribune, 2 Nov. 2020
  • Horse owners around the world are monitoring a new outbreak of the equine herpes virus, a highly communicable virus that targets a horse’s nervous system and can be fatal.
    — Chris Perkins, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Title 42 was set in place to quickly expel migrants back to their home countries because of communicable diseases.
    — Jiovanni Lieggi, Fox News, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The policies do not exclude losses from communicable diseases or viruses, the lawsuits say.
    — USA TODAY, 27 May 2020
  • On the whole, the closest people come to dying of illness is strychnine poisoning, and the only communicable disease that matters is a lust for dispatching one’s neighbors with their own scarves.
    — New York Times, 27 July 2021
  • Elk hoof rot from Washington, hair-loss syndrome in deer, numerous other communicable diseases in deer and seasonal outbreaks of avian flu, to name just a few.
    — oregonlive, 3 Dec. 2021
  • The statute, which in some form has existed dating back to the late 18th century, is supposed to be used solely to prevent the introduction of communicable disease into the United States.
    — Felipe De La Hoz, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Toevs, the county’s communicable disease director, said there’s been a clear shift in demand.
    — oregonlive, 24 May 2021
  • Vaccines are the answer to communicable diseases, spread from one person to another.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Contact tracing has long been a public health tool to address communicable diseases.
    — Ashley Luthern, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 May 2020
  • The agency has said its authority comes from the Public Health Service Act, a nearly 80-year-old federal law that gives the federal government tools to stop the spread of communicable diseases.
    — Drew Costley, Chron, 13 Apr. 2021
  • In the kitchen, inspectors reported that most workers were washing hands and donning gloves when handling food -- steps health experts agree are vital to stop the spread of the coronavirus or any other communicable disease.
    — NBC News, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Waqanivalu is a unit head at WHO's Geneva headquarters, overseeing a small team in the non-communicable diseases department.
    — Maria Cheng, ajc, 11 Jan. 2023
  • For a long time one of the compelling arguments for creating a legally enforceable mandate for shelter was the potential spread of communicable diseases among the homeless.
    — Kevin Fagan, SFChronicle.com, 17 Mar. 2020

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