English-Swedish translations for contagious

• smittsam
  Den är mycket smittsam och luftburna bakterier kan smitta 10-15 andra människor innan symtomen upptäcks.This highly contagious, airborne bacterium can infect ten to fifteen other people before the symptoms are noticed.
  – Herr talman! Den europessimism som ordförande José Manuel Barroso talade om verkar mycket mer smittsam än fågelinfluensan.Mr President, the Euro-pessimism that President Barroso spoke about seems to be a much more contagious disease than avian flu.
  Enligt vetenskapliga studier som nyligen offentliggjorts är det bara en sak som är säker: sjukdomen är mycket smittsam.According to studies published recently by the scientific community, only one thing is certain: this disease is highly contagious.
• smittbärande

Definition of contagious

• Easily transmitted to others
• Easily passed on to others
• Having a disease that can be transmitted to another person

Examples

• The flu was so contagious that everybody in town got sick!
• Wearing jeans was a contagious fad at that time
• They were highly contagious, spreading bacteria to other people

Related words

• contagiousness
• contagiously
• noncontagious
• anticontagious
• contagious disease
• contagious bovine pleuropneumonia
• contagious caprine pleuropneumonia
• contagious ecthyma
• contagious skin necrosis