"Cold Contagious" is the fourth and final single from the band Bush's second studio album, Razorblade Suitcase (1996).

Along with "Bonedriven", "Cold Contagious" is the only Bush single from 1994-1999 not to be included on the band's 2005 greatest hits compilation, The Best of '94–'99.

"Cold Contagious" features a sharp distorted sound, wailing guitar solo and a heavy, dark drumbeat.

"Cold Contagious" is unusually long among Bush songs—at about six minutes, it is the longest track Bush ever released, except for the song "Distant Voices," also on Razorblade Suitcase, and "Alien" on Sixteen Stone, which is the same length musically but has about thirty seconds of silence at the end.

[citation needed] Steve Morse of Tampa Bay Times opined "Cold Contagious" displays a "Neil Young influence".