Three thousand Chinese were already in refugee camps from which they could not spread contagion, but unknown thousands were hiding out in the narrow warrens to which they had fled and they now began to accomplish what the rats could not.

Given that our hermetically sealed offices, buses, trains and other public spaces provide perfect wintertime cultures for the spread of flu, some people are starting to develop better social manners about spreading respiratory contagion in a closed space like a bus.

A friend of mine - beautiful, well traveled and healthy - fears to take yoga class because the teacher's correcting touch may spread contagion from other students, yet she dares to climb hundreds of feet up vertical rock faces.

--"Divine infoliations of the spirit of beauty," she exclaimed, "Ye droop not, neither do ye mourn; the despair that clasps my heart, has not spread contagion over you!

Or that Korea would have defaulted, but not spread contagion.

See if it had equipment to spread contagion!

The story is that they want to spread contagion here, eh?

And well he might be focused on the threat of spreading global contagion, because the health of the American economy is one of the chief props supporting his continued public popularity.

Complex products like banking derivatives, which were supposed to disperse risk around the world, have instead spread contagion.