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"It's now becoming clear that some types of diseases can spread more rapidly and widely than we anticipated," said Chris Mundt, a professor of plant pathology at OSU. "This makes it especially important, in some cases, to stop a spreading disease quickly if you hope to stop it at all." http://www.neaiga.org/animal disease archive.htm
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"Colorado veterinarians are warning horse owners to look for a spreading disease called pigeon fever. Colorado State University issued the warning Monday after seeing more signs of the contagious disease, also called pigeon breast or dryland distemper." http://www.newsfirst5.com/news/vets-warn-of-spreading-horse-...
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diffondere si traduce come 'spread'
"8. In order to ensure the rational development of this sector and to increase productivity, aquatic animal health rules should be laid down at Community level. These rules are necessary, among other things, in order to contribute to the completion of the internal market and to avoid the spread of infectious diseases.
8. Onde garantire lo sviluppo razionale di tale settore e incrementare la produttività, occorre stabilire a livello comunitario le norme zoosanitarie degli animali acquatici. Tali norme sono indispensabili tra l’altro per contribuire al completamento del mercato interno ed evitare la diffusione di malattie infettive." http://eur-lex.europa.eu/Notice.do?mode=dbl&lang=en&ihmlang=...
E' interessante notare come ne' il Dizionario della Lingua Italiana, ne' il Dizionario dei Sinonimi e Contrari, ne' il dizionario IT>IN IN>IT di tiratura italiana contengono il termine "diffusivo" per quanto includano "diffuso, diffusore, diffusione, diffusionismo, e diffusivita'". Forse e' uno di quei termini anglofoni che gli italiani amano adottare.
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diffusive
Explanation: various online dictionaries (eg Hoepli, Garzanti) have diffusivo=diffusive, also 'malattia diffusiva' comes up about as often on Google as 'diffusive disease'.
The link below draws a clear distinction between diffusive and contagious animal diseases, so whilst 'contagious' sounds plausible I don't think it is actually correct. HTH.
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"It's now becoming clear that some types of diseases can spread more rapidly and widely than we anticipated," said Chris Mundt, a professor of plant pathology at OSU. "This makes it especially important, in some cases, to stop a spreading disease quickly if you hope to stop it at all." http://www.neaiga.org/animal disease archive.htm
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"Colorado veterinarians are warning horse owners to look for a spreading disease called pigeon fever. Colorado State University issued the warning Monday after seeing more signs of the contagious disease, also called pigeon breast or dryland distemper." http://www.newsfirst5.com/news/vets-warn-of-spreading-horse-...
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diffondere si traduce come 'spread'
"8. In order to ensure the rational development of this sector and to increase productivity, aquatic animal health rules should be laid down at Community level. These rules are necessary, among other things, in order to contribute to the completion of the internal market and to avoid the spread of infectious diseases.
8. Onde garantire lo sviluppo razionale di tale settore e incrementare la produttività, occorre stabilire a livello comunitario le norme zoosanitarie degli animali acquatici. Tali norme sono indispensabili tra l’altro per contribuire al completamento del mercato interno ed evitare la diffusione di malattie infettive." http://eur-lex.europa.eu/Notice.do?mode=dbl&lang=en&ihmlang=...
Luciano Giusti Argentina Local time: 17:00 Native speaker of: Italian, Spanish PRO pts in category: 4
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Based on the Ministerio della Salute document included in Oliver's answer. This is in actual fact a "vector-borne disease". Please compare the descriptions in the link below and that of the Ministerio della Salute: http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu/TG/HH/veclev2.html
Diffusive disease is used in translations only and is NOT used in native English documents.
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in which case the correct translation would be "contagious and vector-borne diseases" (obviously both kinds are infectious)
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However, "infectious and contagious diseases" is used more generally to cover all types of infectious disease, which as I say also include vector-borne diseases". If the document is general rather than specific, I would therefore stick to my orginal answer". ;)
sarahca Local time: 14:00 Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 4
The translation workplace 
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