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contagions

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contagions noun

  1. A disease spread by contact
  2. The spread or transmission of such a disease
  3. (by extension) the spread of anything harmful, as if it were such a disease
  4. A situation in which small shocks, which initially affect only a few financial institutions or a particular region of an economy, spread to the rest of financial sectors and other countries whose economies were previously healthy

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infectiontransmissioncontagious d…virusesgermsebola virusinfectious d…pathogensepidemicssuperstraincontagions

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