"catch an illness" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to becoming sick or developing symptoms of an illness, for example: "John had been feeling a bit run down all week, and soon enough he caught an illness."
(His backstory was that he used to sing in the closet so as not to annoy his family and caught an illness from mold in there).
Interview 6 The more likely you are to catch a severe illness, the more likely you are to do hand hygiene properly.
You don't want to catch any illness from kissing people.
When Clinton fell ill, the press held her to the standards of Trump World rather than the real world, portraying her as secretive and shady for failing to announce to the world that she had caught a common illness.
California Democratic Caucus Chairwoman Rep. Zoe Lofgren said she thinks about her daughter's pregnancy, and what it would mean if she caught a disease or illness from someone because they didn't have access to healthcare.
Dr Mann points out that, unlike when we break bones, catch illnesses or suffer physical illness, mental ill health is often not visible and therefore treated very differently.
Terrified that they will catch his illness, the campers refuse, and he jumps in their truck and tries to flee.
" "She had chemotherapy and as a result she became bold, her four sons along with their father cut their hair and became bold in solidarity with their mother" (6, 6)" In one FGD women talked about breast cancer being contagious and narrated about husbands rejecting their wives after they had been diagnosed with cancer because they were afraid they might catch the illness.
"I am a human being, therefore I am able to catch illness," she wrote on May 4. "It is beyond my control- and I can't apologize for that.
And I catch this killer illness.
