Health Trends: Contagious and Selfish

Andrew Speaker could have been a modern-day Typhoid Mary.

By Robert W Lash MD
Jun 29, 2007 5:00 AMNov 12, 2019 5:20 AM

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There’s been a lot of talk recently about being contagious. But what does"contagious" really mean and what’s the responsibility that goes along with being contagious? There are some people who wade fearlessly into a room full of sneezing, coughing, snotty children and others who use antibacterial lotion after any contact with solid matter.

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