It's contracted
Else clues• Affliction
• Complaint
• Contracted thing
• Epidemiologist's concern
• Flu, e.g.
• Health problem
• Hypochondriac's preoccupation
• Indisposition
• M.D.'s focus
• Malady
• More of a zinger by Irvin S. Cobb regarding his boss, Charles Chapin
• Reason for a note to the teacher
• Reason to miss work
• Sick situation
• Susan Sontag's ___ as Metaphor
• The flu, for one
• Unhealthy condition
• Impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism