If half of a community sleeps under a net, the other half also benefits because the contagion of the disease spread.

Thailand in particular is leading the charge to insure against the vulnerabilities of the contagion that broke out in South East Asia and spread to other parts of the world.

Stopping the Syria Contagion

Third, and no less important, is the speculative contagion that underlies any bubble. The current boom has seen contagion

There's emotional contagion that takes place in human populations.

And, in fact, emotional contagion can be broader still.

In a world where capital is free to flow across international boundaries, the crisis in the US has spread to Europe. This is a new form of contagion, which transcends national boundaries and is amplified by an international crisis of confidence.

In my view, bubbles are social epidemics, fostered by a sort of interpersonal contagion. A bubble forms when the contagion rate goes up for ideas that support a bubble.

Embassies have issued warnings to tourists and their citizens living in France television news programs have shown hours of footage of burning cars. Other countries governments, it seems, have been trying to distance themselves from the problem, fearing a contagion that they know is likely to spread.

Spread the ideas. Spread the light.

Disclosure I am an investor in Contagion Health, and am considering investments in MedRewards and HealthRally.

And over the course of the last six years, it's spread and it's spread and it's spread and it's spread around the world.

On the Y axis is the cumulative instances of contagion, and on the X axis is the time.

And, not only do they protect the people who sleep under them, but they have these great contagion benefits.

In 2011, the government, fearing contagion from Tunisia and Egypt, where long established dictatorships had just been toppled, responded to the spread of protests by public sector workers by raising their salaries by 100 retroactively to 2008. But the plan backfired protests intensified, with other workers demonstrating for similar benefits and railing against the inflation that the move engendered.

Despite the lack of significant financial contagion risk, a renewed Greek crisis, stemming from a lasting and serious breakdown of negotiations between the new government and EU institutions, would constitute a major problem for European cooperation. The absence of financial contagion would not rule out serious political repercussions.

Second, countries must move together. Otherwise, one country s restructuring will heighten expectations that others will follow, giving rise to contagion.

Bitter experience has shown us that instability in one State can have a powerful contagion effect far beyond its borders.

We have spread out the earth and how brilliantly it is spread!

We have spread out the earth and how brilliantly it is spread!

We have spread out the earth, how well We have spread it out,

We have spread out the earth, how well We have spread it out,

On the downside, one of the most important risks is further financial contagion in Europe if the eurozone s problems spread as seems likely to Portugal, Spain, and Belgium. Given the current level of official resources at the disposal of the International Monetary Fund and the European Union, Spain now seems too big to fail yet too big to be bailed out.

Information spreads in populations, norms can spread in populations, behaviors can spread in populations.

And We have spread out the (spacious) earth How excellently We do spread out!

And We have spread out the (spacious) earth How excellently We do spread out!

Spread the word.

Concerned about the excessive volatility of speculative short term capital flows and the contagion effects in financial markets in times of crisis,

Sometimes we spread out.

The news quickly spread.

And rich carpets spread.

And rich carpets spread.

And linen spread out.

And linen spread out.

And carpets ready spread,

And carpets ready spread,

And silken carpets spread.

And silken carpets spread.

and carpets spread out.

and carpets spread out.

In parchment spread open

And carpets spread around.

In parchment spread open

And carpets spread around.

and well spread carpets.