If any of the animals are affected with an infectious disease, such as tuberculosis or glanders, the moisture and dust may act as carriers of the disease-producing germs.
This is an infectious diseaseof solipeds that usually results in a fatal inflammation of the lungs and pleural membrane.
The drinker is especially open to attacks of infectious disease.
In a very grave case of infectious disease, without this destructive and eliminative activity the accumulation of poison within the system would quickly reach a fatal point.
In his book called "The New Hygiene," Metchnikoff suggests that the administration of alcoholic liquors in infectious disease appears to be attended with danger to the patient.
That which infects, or causes the communicated disease; any effluvium, miasm, or pestilential matter by which an infectious disease is caused.
Hence we define an infectious disease as one which is caused by a living pathogenic micro-organism, which enters the tissues from without, and is capable of multiplying therein.
The question of immunity to infectious disease is very difficult to make clear because it is so technical, and it is only a theory at best.
Following calving, during outbreaks of abortion, and in an infectious disease of the vagina, such injections become necessary.
It may also occur in the course of an infectious disease, when small abscesses are formed under the periosteum (subperiosteal abscess).
Rinderpest, also known as cattle plague, is an acute, infectious disease of cattle, in which the digestive organs are mainly involved.
The most important thing is to keep children away from people who are sick, and if a contagious or infectious disease is prevalent in the neighborhood discourage the mingling of the children in hot, illy ventilated rooms.
When a contagious or an infectious disease comes to the family, it is of great importance that the sick child be isolated, preferably on another floor, from that used by the immediate family.
We found the boys and girls of nearly the entire village suffering from trachoma--a dangerous, infectious disease of the eyes which spreads alarmingly from one child to another.
It is possible so to conduct the treatment of a contagious or infectious disease that no other member of the family may contract it.
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by the bacillus, tuberculosis, and characterized by the formation of nodules or diffuse masses of new tissue.
Typhus fever is an acute, infectious disease, characterized by a sudden onset, marked nervous symptoms, and spotted rash and fever ending quickly after two weeks.
Erysipelas is an infectious disease, and it is usually caused by a germ which we call "streptococcus pyogenes.
Syphilis is an infectious disease, dangerous to the individual and to society.
While salvarsan does not mean the cure of syphilis, it does mean a large part of its control as an infectious disease.
The problem of the relation of syphilis to marriage is simply an aspect of the transmission of an infectious disease.
They may be derived from the body of another person, sick or having died from an infectious disease, from suppurating wounds and even from the secretions of healthy lying-in patients.
The sanguineous discharge which shows itself at the genitals during an acute attack of an infectious disease, has no relation whatever with the menstrual function; this may take place in children at any early age.
The act of 1890 also forbids the keeping for more than forty-eight hours of the body of a person who has died of infectious disease in a room used at the time as a dwelling-place, sleeping-place or workshop.
The most important provision, however, relating toinfectious disease is that contained in the Infectious Disease Notification Act 1889.
Leprosy is probably an infectious disease, and its specific products are contagious--viz.
It should not be forgotten that pyæmia is an infectious disease, having its origin in a local nidus, an open wound, in which putrefaction of pus or other wound-fluid is taking place.
A condition of ill-health doubtless predisposes to this as to other invasions of infectious disease, yet men in apparently the most vigorous health have succumbed to the poison.
No infectious disease of man and animals, with the single exception of tuberculosis, has been more widely diffused, and none can be considered as more cosmopolitan.
Hence he inferred that inoculation of this mild and non-infectious disease would be preferable to the process of variolation then so widely adopted in England.
Not a few cases are also on record where it appears that milkers have conveyed germs of disease from some case of infectious disease, such as scarlet fever, in their homes.
It is hardly necessary to add that in a case of infectious disease occurring in a household many of these modes of application, perhaps all of them, must be adopted.
The answer to this strikes the keynote of our modern knowledge of infectious disease, namely, that while an invading germ is necessary, a certain breaking down of the body defenses and a lowering of the vital resistance are equally necessary.
So we may absolutely disabuse our minds of the fear which some of our enthusiastic believers in the parasitic theory of cancer have done much to foster, that there is any danger of cancer "spreading," like an infectious disease.
See if you can find out about any time when a city or port was guarding its people against an infectious disease.
These officers first ask all the doctors in the town to report to this Central Health Office, or Board of Health, every case of a patient with an infectious disease.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "infectious disease" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
