Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in The Medical Renaissance in England.
The passing of a disease from one person to another by direct or indirect contact.
Contagion appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for Medicine in Britain and the Western Front, especially The Medical Renaissance in England and Case Studies: William Harvey and the Great Plague.
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