Contagions

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    plural of contagion form-of, plural

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infectioninfectionbanecarriercommunicationconduction

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"The 1793 Yellow Fever outbreak prompted the building of America's first quarantine station and hospital at the port of Philadelphia — established to try to keep contagions at bay."

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