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• n  any disease easily transmitted by contact
• n  an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted
• n  the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people
  a contagion of mirth

• Instead, its contagion from the broader credit crisis.
• Christakis and Fowler say social contagion could even help explain the existence of altruism: if we can pass on altruism to distant points in a network, it would help explain why .
• The language of contagion is part of pop culture today, thanks in part to the influence of Malcolm Gladwells best-selling book The Tipping Point.

• contagious disease
• infection
• transmission

News & Articles

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• Ubisoft Readying Tom Clancy MMO Shooter The Division For PlayStation 4, Xbox One (Trailer Added)
  Last night at a press briefing, Ubisoft Massive’s David Polfeldt revealed details about the just-announced Tom Clancy’s The Division, a next-generation MMO Shooter. The massive online title has some interesting concepts, but much is still unknown. We know that the game takes place in a United States stricken by a terrible contagion. We also were informed that the disease was released on purpose ...
  June 10, 2013 - Game Informer

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in FOXNews
  It's hard to deny that some of the contagion did start on Wall Street,Obama said, asserting that some firms took "wild and unjustified risks" and some government regulators were "asleep at the switch."
• President Bush in CNN
  If American forces were to step back from Baghdad, before it is more secure, a contagion of violence could spill out across the entire country,Bush said. "In time this violence could engulf the region."
• David Miliband in CNN International
  Negotiations with Iraq's neighbors to reconcile the Sunni and Shiite populations would "prevent that conflict first fragmenting the country and then spreading like a contagion across the Middle East," Miliband said.