transmitted
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The California Department of Public Health reports that West Nile virus activity in the state, which is transmitted from infected mosquitoes, has reached a five-year high, with over 250 cases to date and 19 fatalities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
It connected the molecular assembly to the cell's internal skeleton, allowing force to be transmitted across the surface of the material being engulfed.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 5, 2026
An infected animal can pass rabies to another animal or to a person through its bite, but that’s not the only way it can be transmitted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Littlejohns also points out that multiple data streams can be transmitted down the same channel to create more capacity.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
A fatal disease vanishing for another reason was New Guinea’s laughing sickness, transmitted by cannibalism and caused by a slow-acting virus from which no one has ever recovered.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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