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Adjective: contagious  kun'teyjus
  1. Easily diffused or spread as from one person to another
    "a contagious grin"
     
  2. (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
    - catching, communicable, contractable, transmissible, transmittable

See also: contagion, contagiously, infectious

Encyclopedia: Contagious