The phrase "avoiding contagion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to health, disease prevention, or metaphorically in discussions about preventing the spread of ideas or behaviors.
Example: "The government implemented strict measures for avoiding contagion during the outbreak."
Alternatives: "preventing infection" or "stopping the spread".
The best means of avoiding contagion was to avoid all passion of the mind, he claimed.
"We have to succeed in avoiding contagion... we should remain vigilant," he told Le Parisien.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Banks and authorities have a short window to successfully implement a recovery plan and avoid contagion in the financial system; markets, investors and depositors (in the case of banks) can't be kept in the dark for long.
Despite heated debate, the government has still not decided how to support a failing bank without pumping in billions of taxpayers' money to avoid contagion in the broader financial system.
