# Contagion > [!info] Spell Details > | | | > |---|---| > | **Level** | 5th | > | **School** | [[Necromancy]] | > | **Casting Time** | 1 Action | > | **Range** | Touch | > | **Components** | V, S | > | **Duration** | 7 days | > | **Classes** | Cleric, Druid | --- ## Description Your touch inflicts disease. Make a melee spell attack against a creature within your reach. On a hit, the target is **poisoned**. At the end of each of the poisoned target's turns, the target must make a Constitution saving throw. If the target succeeds on three of these saves, it is no longer poisoned, and the spell ends. If the target fails three of these saves, the target is no longer poisoned, but choose one of the diseases below; the target is subjected to the chosen disease for the spell's duration. Since this disease exists for the spell's duration, it doesn't require a saving throw to avoid, and it can't be ended by *lesser restoration* or comparable magic. The diseases are: **Blinding Sickness**, **Filth Fever**, **Flesh Rot**, **Mindfire**, **Seizure**, or **Slimy Doom** (see the PHB for each disease's full effects). --- ## At Higher Levels This spell does not have an upcast effect.