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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
contagion /kənˈteɪdʒ(ə)n/

▶noun the communication of disease from one person or organism to another by close contact.

■ dated a disease spread by close contact.

– origin ME: from L. contagio(n-), from con- ‘together with’ + the base of tangere ‘to touch’.

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