Not contagious
Moral impurity should be distinguished from ritual impurity. Ritual impurity is impermanent, sometimes contagious, may defile the courtyard altar, and, while requiring cleansing, does not require forgiveness; moral impurity requires atonement (sometimes being cut off or death), defiles the land, along with the innermost areas of the sanctuary, but is not contagious.
L. Michael Morales, Who Shall Ascend the Mountain of the Lord? 159
I gotta have my orange juice. 
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