The phrase "avoid contagion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to health, disease prevention, or metaphorically in discussions about spreading ideas or behaviors.
Example: "To ensure the safety of our community, we must take measures to avoid contagion during the flu season."
Alternatives: "prevent transmission" or "stop the spread".
Yet the government has tried to rein in spending to avoid contagion from the European debt crisis.
'Everyone is eager to avoid "contagion", where prices fall rapidly as investors react lemming-like to a falling index,' said one banker.
"Suicide contagion is real," she explained, "which is why I'm concerned …" Suicide prevention advocates have developed a series of guidelines for news media coverage of suicide deaths, which have been shown to help avoid contagion.
Much of West Africa is following a no-hands rule to avoid contagion from the deadly virus, but doctors and nurses here, protected by layers of plastic and rubber armor, routinely touch the sick.
Being out of commission in a hospital is the classic way that horror movie heroes manage to avoid contagion while the rest of the world mutates into something unpleasant.
If the currency union is to avoid contagion it will need to accompany the loss of its most controversial member with measures that key member states have persistently opposed.
The best means of avoiding contagion was to avoid all passion of the mind, he claimed.
In any case, current economic conditions will reduce the elbow room for any government keen to veer left.More pain further northSo far, most of the rest of sub-Saharan Africa seems to have avoided contagion, but the real economy is likely to suffer.
"We have to succeed in avoiding contagion... we should remain vigilant," he told Le Parisien.
Malta's financial services industry has grown in recent years and it has avoided contagion from the European financial crisis, largely because its debt is mostly held domestically and its banks have low exposure to the sovereign debt of peripheral European countries.
Because parasitic pressures in humans (as well as in many other animals) favour the emergence of behaviours aimed at avoiding contagion, for example, xenophobia or a limited propensity for dispersion (Faulkner 2004), they eventually lead to the fractioning of populations into smaller functional groups.
