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Contagious Disease

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

A disease communicable by contact with a patient suffering from it or with some secretion of or object touched by such a patient Most such diseases have already been proved to be germ diseases and their communicability depends on the transmission of the living germs Many germ diseases are not contagious some special method of transmission or inoculation of the germs being required

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