Billy Dee Williams was born William December Williams on April 6, 1937 in New York City. Billy Dee has notched up an impressive array of film and television appearances over the past 50+ years. He is easily best known to international film audiences as the roguish Lando Calrissian in the last two episodes of the original Star Wars-trilogy: Star ... See full bio Â».
Definition of contagious for English Language Learners. : 1  able to be passed from one person or animal to another by touching. : 2  having a sickness that can be passed to someone else by touching. : 3  capable of being easily spread to others : causing other people to feel or act a similar way.
Type A Influenza is considered to be contagious between people. Generally the infectious agent may be transmitted by saliva, air, cough, fecal-oral route, surfaces, blood, needles, blood transfusions, sexual contact, mother to fetus, etc.ontagion and contagiousness refers to how easily the spread of Type A Influenza is possible from one person to another. Other words for contagion include infection, infectiousness, transmission or transmissability.