Sentence examples for Environmental contagion from inspiring English sources
These theories range from heredity, environmental contagion, bad character, and economic misery (or affluence) to bleak childhoods, preexisting depressive disorder, ready and inexpensive availability of alcoholic beverages, or sociopathy.
Examples of health risks are exposure to contagion; environmental hazards; or familial disruption, such as the separation of spouses or of a mother and child.
And Christakis and Fowler point to two other findings to bolster their case for social contagion over environmental effects.
Maclean, writing in the early nineteenth century, was concerned with demolishing the established belief in contagion, rather than constructing an elaborate system of environmental medicine in its place.
Our proximity to migrating animals, rodents and livestock, combined with environmental upheaval, has created conditions that make animal-borne epidemics more likely –- a theme the new film "Contagion" embraces with enough zeal to throw Gwyneth Paltrow into a fit of lethal convulsions.
As Sonia Shah demonstrates in her new book, "Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond," the vicissitudes of political will — along with other environmental factors — can tip the balance between pathogens and humans.
Contagion has spread, too.
