1.   Chicken pox is a highly contagious disease.

2.   Each hospital that took patients with contagious diseases established quarantine periods.

3.   For many patients, acute care came in county or city general hospitals where patients with contagious diseases were sent.

4.   He immediately ordered a spinal tap that confirmed polio, and she was moved to the floor for contagious diseases.

5.   ...a highly contagious disease of the lungs.

6.   The purpose of the statute was to lessen the risk of cattle catching a contagious disease while in transit.

7.   Should she concoct some story about him having a violently contagious disease?

8.   A PIG farmer took his animals out of a quarantine zone designed to contain a highly contagious disease, a court heard yesterday.