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contagion

German translation: Ansteckung

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07:55 Feb 14, 2021
English to German translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical (general)
Additional field(s): Medical (general), Journalism
English term or phrase: contagion
Definition from Lexico:
(n.) The communication of disease from one person or organism to another by close contact.

Example sentence(s):
  • Coronavirus in Spain: From tourism hotspot to contagion hotbed DW
  • The literature of contagion is vile. A plague is like a lobotomy. It cuts away the higher realms, the loftiest capacities of humanity, and leaves only the animal. “Farewell to the giant powers of man,” Mary Shelley wrote in “The Last Man,” in 1826, after a disease has ravaged the world. The New Yorker
  • We’ve long known that panic spreads, but experts more recently have come to understand emotional contagion, the mechanism by which people’s emotions (positive or negative) “go viral” within groups, influencing our thoughts and actions. Learning about that mechanism is key to dampening negative emotional contagion and making us feel a bit less frantic. Harvard Business Review
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German translation:Ansteckung
Definition:
Übertragung einer Krankheit, Infektion
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Birgit Spalt
Austria
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5 +2Ansteckung
Birgit Spalt


  

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  confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Ansteckung


Definition from Wortbedeutung:
Übertragung einer Krankheit, Infektion

Example sentence(s):
  • Hier erfahren Sie wie Sie durch richtiges Händewaschen, Niesen und Husten die Gefahr einer Ansteckung oder einer Weiterverbreitung des Coronavirus verringern können. - Bundesz. für gesundheitl. Aufklärung  
  • Die Ware ist unverpackt und Selbstbedienung ausgeschlossen: Wie wahrscheinlich ist eine Ansteckung mit dem Coronavirus an der Wurst- oder Käsetheke? - ARD  
Birgit Spalt
Austria
Local time: 12:19
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 20

Votes in favor of/against selecting this as the best translation of the term asked
Yes  Maïté Mendiondo-George
3 days 19 hrs
  -> Danke schön. :)
Yes  Steffen Walter
9 days
  -> Danke :)
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