English-German translations for contagion

• ansteckende Krankheit die
• Ansteckung die
  Niemand kann deshalb sagen, ob die Ansteckung auf den westlichen Teil von Europa übergegangen wäre. No one can say, therefore, whether the contagion would have jumped across to the western part of Europe.
• Infektion die

Definition of contagion

• a disease spread by contact
• the spread of anything harmful, as if it were such a disease
• a resulting recession or crisis developed in such manner

Related words

• contagious
• contagiousness
• contagiously
• noncontagious
• anticontagionist
• anticontagious
• contagious disease
• contagious bovine pleuropneumonia
• contagious caprine pleuropneumonia