Infectious Disease definition

Infectious Disease means an illness that is capable of being spread from one person to another.
Infectious Disease means an illness caused by a person’s reaction to the entrance, growth and multiplication of microorganisms, such as bacteria or viruses, in the person’s body.
Infectious Disease means any kind of infectious disease for which a pandemic alert is issued by the World Health Organisation.

Examples of Infectious Disease in a sentence

  • Infectious disease or some sort of toxic substance could be involved, in which case other pets might also be at risk.


More Definitions of Infectious Disease

Infectious Disease means HIV or AIDS as defined in section 141A.1, all strains of hepatitis, meningococcal meningitis, and mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Infectious Disease means any epidemic or acute infectious disease, and includes open pulmonary tuberculosis but does not include venereal disease;
Infectious Disease means a disease of man or animals resulting from an infection.
Infectious Disease or "communicable disease" means any disease which may be transmitted from one person to another and declared as such by the State Government by notification;
Infectious Disease means any disease which can be communicated directly or indirectly by any person suffering therefrom to any other person;
Infectious Disease means transmissible diseases or communicable diseases resulting from the infection, presence and growth of pathogenic organisms within an individual host organism.
Infectious Disease means any disease (not including any venereal disease except gonorrhoeal ophthalmia) which can be communicated directly or indirectly by any person suffering therefrom to any other person;