Sentence examples for contagious by from inspiring English sources

Researchers had made avian influenza contagious by transferring the virus from one ferret to another in their lab.

A virulent new form of influenza, for example, could spread much more rapidly than SARS, which is not especially contagious by comparison with other respiratory diseases.

The structure of this exercise allowed us to explore how rudeness could be contagious by examining how the rudeness experienced in one negotiation influenced rude behaviours in the next negotiation.

I've just finished reading Contagious by Jonah Berger, a terrific book that talks about why things catch on in our media-saturated society.

Despite the fact that the index case needed to be considered to be highly contagious by the presence of large numbers of acid fast bacilli on sputum smears we observed a positive IGRA response post exposure in less than 5% of close contacts indicating possible M. tuberculosis infection.

Antibiotic treatment also shortened the period of time where the patient remains contagious by reducing the duration of excretion of Vibrio cholerae in the diarrhoea.

A filled crown first, inspired not by dentistry (Mel Giedroyc's punnery is contagious), but by Her Majesty on the year of her 90th birthday, and made of meringue.

It is also thought to be contagious, transmitted by touching someone during a seizure.

But the lawyer's confidence was contagious, and by the end of the meeting Sayyid was smiling.

First, it is highly contagious, spread by direct droplet infection -- a cough or sneeze, a kiss or even a drink from a contaminated cup, although not by casual contact or breathing the air where an infected person has been.

A Bronx man wounded in Harlem on Sunday in a fatal shooting involving the police suggests in legal papers filed Wednesday that he was a victim of "contagious shooting" by officers, evoking dark chapters in the New York Police Department's recent history.