What's the difference between contagion and contagium?
Contagion
Definition:
(n.) The transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact.
(n.) That which serves as a medium or agency to transmit disease; a virus produced by, or exhalation proceeding from, a diseased person, and capable of reproducing the disease.
(n.) The act or means of communicating any influence to the mind or heart; as, the contagion of enthusiasm.
(n.) Venom; poison.
Example Sentences:
(1) It could provoke the gravest risk, that all three rating agencies declare a credit event and then there are big contagion risks for other countries," he said.
(2) "If ratings agencies see a rollover [of Greek debt] as a partial default, contagion to other peripheral eurozone countries will occur."
(3) 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.
(4) And it is why, without a proper firewall to stop contagion spreading to other troubled economies such as Spain and Italy, a disorderly Greek exit would be catastrophic not only for Greece but for the rest of Europe and the world economy."
(5) But senior officials at the European commission in Brussels disclosed that a compromise was in the air to save Greece and halt contagion by levying a tax on banks in the eurozone – opposed by Berlin and proposed by Paris – as well as a long-term Greek debt rollover stretching for decades, and other measures aimed at reducing Greece's crippling debt level.
(6) The likely patterns of spatial contagion are indicated and the need for smaller-scale study is pointed out.
(7) Some suggest the party is concerned about longer term political shifts and the risk of contagion if people on the mainland begin to wonder why they cannot choose their leader like compatriots in Hong Kong.
(8) I am particularly worried about contagion from stress coming from the European banks and whether there might be linkages – perhaps indirect – between them and the largest UK banks,” Kashyap said.
(9) Without strong health systems in place, the higher the population density the more difficult it becomes to prevent and control outbreaks, and not just because of the increased risk of contagion.
(10) Lee Hardman, a currency strategist at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, said: "There is evidence of contagion from Greece.
(11) These include "a steeper than expected downturn in Europe, financial contagion related to the sovereign debt crisis, rapidly rising oil prices and geopolitical risks".
(12) The role of water, food and direct contagion in transmission of cholera over the last 20 years is considered in the light of recent studies and with special reference to the epidemic in Latin America, where the intense emotion aroused by the disease has prompted vigorous action that could produce significant and lasting progress in the health field.
(13) Above all it needs to happen soon, before the contagion, and the poisonous distrust it engenders, spread further.
(14) The response to AIDS illustrates that contagion has a social definition, even in the context of Western scientific medicine.
(15) Eurozone policymakers had been eager to shore up Spain's position before elections in Greece on 17 June that could push Athens closer to a eurozone exit and unleash contagion.
(16) "Contagion from Greece is what I would call thematic," says Michael Saunders, an economist at Citigroup.
(17) "The management has held out for fear of contagion.
(18) A sense of the end-times is also apparent in Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Contagion , where super-intelligent apes and killer microbes respectively are poised to wipe out mankind.
(19) One of the main conclusions of the article is that legislation, as a mean to fight HIV infection, must be essentially aimed to the increasing of educational and informational actions and not to the repression of situations which are, in rule, rare, as the voluntary or careless contagion.
(20) The only uncertainty is whether adults, with intradermal reactions to tuberculin should undergo chemoprophylaxis if the time of contagion is unknown and the subject does not show any particular risk factors.
Contagium
Definition:
(n.) Contagion; contagious matter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sero-epidemiological studies performed in different groups of children and carried out with this method led to the following results: mother-child contagium, early infection in young infants, and influence of socio-economical and ethnical factors.