infectious disease; contagious disease; epidemic
Medical term for diseases that spread from person to person or via vectors. In everyday news, it often refers to outbreaks and epidemics.
伝染病の予防には手洗いが大切です。
Handwashing is important for preventing infectious diseases.
An epidemic is spreading in that region.
He caught an infectious disease in Africa.
Last year, an infectious disease spread through this region.
Vaccines are administered to prevent infectious diseases.
A new infectious disease broke out in that village.
Mosquitoes transmit many infectious diseases.