Is a plague that is only contagious from a living host feasible?

How believable is a touch or fluid vectored bacteria which is so dependent on its host that the remains of a terminated victim become non-contageous within minutes of the host's death?

I'm postulating an infector which consumes its host so quickly that infected blood samples contain no living infectors within an hour of the sample being taken. If such a thing is possible, how could such a disease avoid burning through its host's energy reserves so quickly that it doesn't have time to infect others?

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