The spread of anything harmful, as if it were such a disease.
(finance) A situation in which small shocks, which initially affect only a few financial institutions or a particular region of an economy, spread to the rest of financial sectors and other countries whose economies were previously healthy.
(finance) A resulting recession or crisis developed in such manner.
“The contagion was spread almost exclusively among the hospital staff, in whom the disease lay latent for the month of July.”
“If you do not stop the contagion of vice, they will swarm in your streets, and prowl about your dwellings, and pilfer from you ten times the amount you would need to give to render them useful and happy.”
“Secondly, trials using viral vectors occasionally present risks to the public through transmission of transgenes or contagion.”
“A contactee in Argentina came forward last week with an incredible story.”
“Basically, a large part of the UFO lore is subjective and many alleged UFO events are actually the products of a complex hallucinatory process, particularly in the contactee.”
“In perhaps the oddest twist of all, this most ferocious of contagions simply went away of its own accord, never to be seen again.”
“Deforestation and other radical ecosystem alterations also promote diseases, such as malaria and cholera, as well as new strains of existing contagions.”
“Architects believed that sunlight, fresh air and uncluttered living spaces would banish the contagions of tuberculosis and flu.”
