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Contagious Diseases, diseases easily spread from one person to another, either directly or indirectly. Public health measures can control the spread of contagious diseases.

For information on:

the spread of contagious diseases, see Infection; Epidemiology

preventing or controlling outbreaks, see Immunization; Preventive Medicine; Public Health: Disease Tracking and Epidemiology; Quarantine; Ignaz Semmelweis

specific contagious diseases, see Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Anthrax; Chicken Pox; Common Cold; Cowpox; Distemper; Erysipelas; Foot-and-Mouth Disease; German Measles; Glanders; Impetigo; Influenza; Leprosy; Avian Leukosis; Measles; Mononucleosis, Infectious; Mumps; Plague; Rabies; Smallpox; Trachoma; Tuberculosis; Psittacosis

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