Contagion and contagiousness refers to how easily the spread of Neurosyphilis is possible from one person to another. Other words for contagion include infection, infectiousness, transmission or transmissability. Contagiousness has nothing to do with genetics or inheriting diseases from parents.
Tacoma was preferred in the city of Tacoma. In 1890, the United States Board on Geographic Names declared that the mountain would be known as Rainier. Following this in 1897, the Pacific Forest Reserve became the Mount Rainier Forest Reserve, and the national park was established three years later.
More recently, researchers have charted its mudflows and traced the ash around it. Mount Rainier's new scientific profile lacks the mysticism of legend, but it retains much of its mystery and power. Unlike Mount St. Helens, a young spud of the Cascade range at 40,000 years of age, Rainier is a half-million years old. St. Helens is a tidy mountain, a nearly symmetrical cone until 1980, having been built by alternating layers of lava, ash and volcanic debris.