What's the difference between charbon and contagious?
Charbon
Definition:
(n.) A small black spot or mark remaining in the cavity of the corner tooth of a horse after the large spot or mark has become obliterated.
(n.) A very contagious and fatal disease of sheep, horses, and cattle. See Maligmant pustule.
Example Sentences:
(1) Analysis has showed that Vitalomer is comparable in measurement of volumes and flows with well-known Vitalograph and that it fulfils the criteria proposed for spirometers by American Thoracic Society (ATS) and Communauté Européenne du Charbon et de l'Acier (CECA).
Contagious
Definition:
(a.) Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease.
(a.) Conveying or generating disease; pestilential; poisonous; as, contagious air.
(a.) Spreading or communicable from one to another; exciting similar emotions or conduct in others.
Example Sentences:
(1) No acute cases of clinical or anicteric hepatitis were in observed in 75% of 161 patients who had been exposed to hepatitis A by an oral surgeon during the contagious period.
(2) The SC strains comprise those from contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) and some from goats.
(3) This article reviews certain legislative points of view which should help every dentist in their decision as to whether to treat these so-called "infectious" or "contagious" patients.
(4) That’s in the normal range, but should it go to 37.5 you may be whisked off to a holding centre as a suspect Ebola case, where – even if your fever is flu or more likely here, malaria – you will be detained with people who really do have this dangerously contagious virus.
(5) The accumulated information on low rates of occupational transmission of HIV makes unwarranted the treatment of patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) or HIV infection as if they were highly contagious in the health care setting.
(6) In this context, the present article makes an analysis of the main ethical and legal problems posed by HIV infection, in the framework of Portuguese law, with special focus on: a) Conflict between the necessary protection of public health by the State and the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms of the citizens; b) Inadequacy of the existent laws to fight contagious diseases to HIV infection; c) Discrimination; d) Testing and compulsory hospitalization versus informed consent; e) Confidentiality; f) Voluntary contagion.
(7) The ELISA and an immunoblotting technique were used to study F38-type mycoplasmas - an important cause of contagious caprine pleuropneumonia - and a number of related mycoplasma species, subspecies, types or serogroups.
(8) Measles can spread when it reaches a community in the US where groups of people are unvaccinated.” The highly contagious viral respiratory disease is often accompanied by a blotchy rash, fever, runny nose, cough, body aches, watery eyes or pink eye and tiny white spots in the mouth.
(9) This paper extends a mathematical model developed by the authors for describing the stochastic process underlying the etiology of non-contagious progressive diseases.
(10) Four pony mares were readily infected with the organism of contagious equine metritis by intracervical inoculation and one by coitus with an infected stallion.
(11) The kinetics of inactivation of two viruses (the Talfan and the Canine Contagious Hepatitis viruses) which were obtained after contact with 10 disinfectants commonly used in agriculture and the food industry are compared.
(12) Reproduction of contagious equine metritis 1977 in Pony mares was achieved with cultures of an unclassified Gram-negative coccobacillus.
(13) The nurses’ statement said they had to “interact with Mr. Duncan with whatever protective equipment was available”, even as he produced “a lot of contagious fluids”.
(14) This article reports on the phenomenon of contagious hysteria in a village in West Bengal.
(15) Those who believed in the contagiousness of the disease hoped to be able to control it with preventive and hygienic measures resulting from their findings on the bacteriology of the epidemic.
(16) After almost 24 hours of being told I stank and generally being treated like a contagious freak, I was so grateful for these ministrations that I went to hug them.
(17) The abortive form is revealed by contagious abortions whose frequency depends principally on the composition of the animal population of the farm; during its evolution, numerous very high positive serological reactions are observed.
(18) We will know more in the coming days.” She said inquiries will seek to establish if the outbreak is linked to cases of a highly contagious strain in chickens in the Netherlands and Germany.
(19) Finally, it does not seem logical, for airlines learn about only a small fraction of the contagious persons who travel, and public health is much more greatly endangered by unknown contagious persons.
(20) Literature concerning Adamantiadès-Behçet disease is silent with regard to its contagiousness.