'viral contagion' is a correct term that can be used in written English.
It is used to refer to the spread of a virus through contact with an infected person or object. For example: The spread of the virus was so wide that it was described as a viral contagion.
And the play's most movingly drawn character, the soldiers' translator, Musa (played with soulful intensity by Arian Moayed), becomes perhaps the most heart-rending victim of the viral contagion of violence that the play depicts.
Taking a final sip of tea, he entertained a reporter's questions: Had the viral contagion of a song with a title no newspaper can print and no radio station can broadcast come as a surprise to him?
Latterly, with such franchises as the successful video game Resident Evil, the Haitian supernatural element has been abandoned altogether in favour of viral contagion – a product of the interconnectedness of the modern world.
He said the real threats to the world included nuclear war, climate change, viral contagions and the energy crisis.
Viral transmission depends on contagion, and, like viruses, some cultural traits are catchier than others.
But what has not changed is the principle of morbid contagion, the apparently endless viral transmission from body to body, the chain reaction of names that inspire and are inspired by other names.
Visitors will wear a "contagion meter" that measures their viral infection level.
Meanwhile his viral outbreak movie Contagion (2011, Warner, 12) hits the DVD shelves, taking its lead from such time-honoured disaster epics as Earthquake, The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, in which a galaxy of stars would struggle to outlive one another as the world around them crumbled, sank or exploded.
The jury is still out on whether the star-studded viral outbreak movie Contagion will be a Hollywood blockbuster, but don't blame Patrick Hickey if it isn't.
Since then, they have been used to model financial contagion in credit markets [16, 17], viral videos on the web [18], terrorist activity in Indonesia [19], and the spread of infectious disease [20].
