Difference between Infectious and Contagious

INFECTIOUS vs CONTAGIOUS: ADJECTIVE

Transmitted from one person to another, usually through the air breathed.
Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture.
Corrupting, or tending to corrupt or contaminate; vitiating; demoralizing.
Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic
Spreading or tending to spread from one to another.
Capable of transmitting a disease; contagious.
Capable of being transmitted by infection.
Capable of causing infection.
Of or relating to infection
Caused by infection or capable of causing infection
Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated.
Memorable and invoking excitement or interest.
Easily spread
Spreading quickly from one person to another.
Able to infect others.

Of a person, having a disease that can be transmitted to another person by touch.
Of a fashion, laughter, etc., easily passed on to others.
Of a disease, easily transmitted to others.
Spreading or communicable from one to another; exciting similar emotions or conduct in others.
Conveying or generating disease; pestilential; poisonous.
Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching.
Spreading or tending to spread from one to another; infectious.
Transmissible by direct or indirect contact; communicable.
Of or relating to contagion.
(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
Of or relating to communicable diseases
Easily diffused or spread as from one person to another
Capable of transmitting a disease.

Children catch it from their elders"- Bertrand Russell
Contaminating, poisoning, defiling.
Communicable by infection; easily diffused or spread from person to person or from place to place, as a disease, a moral influence, or a mental condition: specifically applied to diseases which are capable of being communicated from one to another, or which pervade certain places, attacking persons there, independently of any contact with those already sick. Infectious diseases include contagious and miasmatic diseases.
Capable of communicating infection; that infects, taints, or corrupts; contaminating: as, infectious clothing; infectious air; an infectious vice.
In law, capable of contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure or forfeiture.
Synonyms Catching, communicable.

Arising from or due to contagion, in either sense; brought about by propagation or incitement: as, a contagious epidemic.
Propagated by influence or incitement; exciting like feeling or action; spreading or liable to spread from one to another: as, contagious example; a contagious speculation.
Containing or generating contagion; poisonous; pestilential: as, contagious air; contagious clothing.
Communicable by contagion; that may be imparted by contact or by emanations; catching: as, a contagious disease.

Pathogen, Disease, Viral, Infected, Virulent, Contractable, Corrupting, Septic, Catching, Contaminating, Transmittable, Transmissible, Infective, Communicable, Contagious

Noninfectious, Noncontagious, Agalactia, Ferry, Epidemiological, Gastric, Transmitted, Infected, Virulent, Contractable, Catching, Transmittable, Transmissible, Communicable, Infectious

Pathogen, Disease, Viral, Infected, Virulent, Contractable, Corrupting, Septic, Catching, Contaminating, Transmittable, Transmissible, Infective, Communicable, Contagious

Noninfectious, Noncontagious, Agalactia, Ferry, Epidemiological, Gastric, Transmitted, Infected, Virulent, Contractable, Catching, Transmittable, Transmissible, Communicable, Infectious

The symptoms of infectious arthritis depend on the specific infectious agent and specific joints involved.
Epidemiology of infectious haematopoietic necrosis and infectious pancreatic necrosis of rainbow trout in North East China.
The model further assumes FMD individuals will pass through four epidemiological states: susceptible; infected, but not infectious; infectious; or reported infected and thereby culled.
These potentially infectious contaminants can contaminate other vials in the dewar and generate an infectious aerosol as the liquid nitrogen evaporates.
Selection of appropriate respiratory protection is critically important for aerosol transmissible infectious pathogens, and for any other airborne infectious diseases.
Newcastle disease, infectious bronchitis, infectious laryngotracheitis, fowl pox, and fowl cholera vaccinations per facility standard operating procedures.
Minute Infectious Diseases Consult, Second Edition provides comprehensive coverage for clinicians dealing with infectious diseases.
The International Society of Infectious Diseases came out with a little book this year on controlling infectious outbreaks in hospitals.
An infectious person is one from whom the infectious agent can be acquired.
Clinical Infectious Diseases Infectious Disease Society of Americas.

Herpes is most contagious when sores are present.
Goodness is enticing, infectious and contagious like leaven.
But strep throat and scarlet fever are contagious.
TANGERE, the Scotch fiddle, or other contagious disease.
Imagine a contagious architecture, anyone might catch it.
Mexico, neither applicant suffers from any contagious disease.
Some types of colitis are contagious and some are not contagious.
Contagious A contagious disease is easily spread from one person to another by contact with the infectious agent that causes the disease.
Where death is due to a violent contagious disease or suspected contagious diseasewhich may be a public health hazard.
Quarantine: a separation for people who have a contagious disease, have symptoms consistent with a contagious disease, or were exposed to a contagious disease.