Phil Gingrey

States should require vaccinations for communicable diseases, like measles and the mumps. But you can't catch HPV if an infected schoolmate coughs on you or shares your juice box at lunch. Whether or not girls get vaccinated against HPV is a decision for parents and physicians, not state governments.

American Politician

Andre Breton

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

French Poet

Tedros Adhanom

Ensuring investment in health systems will not only help us manage HIV/AIDS, it will also support our efforts to prevent and treat other communicable and noncommunicable diseases as well as prevent and respond to future health emergencies.

Ethiopian Politician

Louise Fresco

Rising demand for animal products highlights microbiological risks, with animal-welfare measures sometimes creating new hazards. For example, open pens for poultry may increase the spread of communicable diseases like avian influenza.

Dutch Scientist

Benjamin Spock

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

American Scientist

Martha Graham

American Dancer

Use 'communicable' to describe illnesses that spread between living beings.

Disease Spread

Specify how a disease is communicable: via air, touch, bodily fluids, etc.

Method of Transmission

Mention 'communicable' when discussing how to prevent the spread of a disease.

Preventative Measures

Use 'communicable' to express the idea that knowledge or skills can be shared.

Knowledge Sharing

'Communicable' can refer to the sharing of cultural practices or norms.

Cultural Exchange

Outside of medicine, 'communicable' means information or ideas can be spread.

Non-Medical Usage

 and I will just briefly read climate change, communicable diseases, conflicts, education, financial instability, governance and corruption, malnutrition and hunger, population migration, sanitation and water, and subsidies and trade barriers. We believe that these in many ways encompass the biggest problems in the world. The obvious question would be to ask,

Bjorn Lomborg: Global...

 I think that that has as much to do with this as anything else one final thing there's an issue that hasn't been mentioned by anybody here and that's the issue of health if you believe you are what you eat and you watching the amount of non communicable diseases dramatically rise all over the world

Food Security in an...

 have been three dozen emerging communicable diseases that have pandemic potential any one of them could cause a pandemic that killed millions or tens of millions of people so a lot of people cleared all the time many have been