Zymotic in a sentence as an adjective

In 2020, almost none of the diseases in the "zymotic" category are significant in the US, but we're still dying.

Cancer didn't **** many people in 1850, but that's only because "zymotic diseases" killed them before they could develop cancers.

[1] Obviously "zymotic diseases" is a nonsense category in modern medicine--most were bacterial infections, some other forms of infections, some completely misattributed to infection.

Zymotic definitions

adjective

of or relating to or causing fermentation

See also: zymolytic

adjective

relating to or caused by infection