It is not uncommon to see and hear people write and say or use the words ‘contact’ when talking about an infection or a disease.

Speaker 1: He contacted HIV from unsterilized needles.

Speaker 2: He contracted Zika virus while on holiday in Brazil.

Let’s refer to dictionaries for help.

Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (OALD) defines:

CONTACT (n) (medical) a person who may be infectious because he/she has been near to somebody with a CONTAGIOUS disease.

CONTRACT (v) (medical) to get an illness.

Encarta Dictionaries defines:
CONTACT: disease carrier: a person or an animal seen as a possible carrier of an infectious disease.

CONTRACT: (Trans V) get illness: to catch or develop an illness.

Speaker 2 is correct.

I hope this improves your grammar.

By: NifemiOlu
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This post is funny, @NifemiOlu. Good job

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It just baffles me that a lot of very good threads in various sections of this forum are never taken to front page, whereas rubbish threads are displayed there daily. Wonder what jobs the mods do.

Er, I have mentioned lalasticlala so tey I don tire. Some of us take time to write our stuff carefully aiming to benefit people but the mighty ones of Nairaland...