transmission
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“We do believe that there may be some human-to-human transmission that’s happening among the really close contacts,” Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s director for epidemic and pandemic preparedness and prevention, said Tuesday morning.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
“So most of the transmission there is similar to Chile, where you get a handful of cases.”
From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026
The organisation was told there were no rats on board, Van Kerkhove said, adding that the risk to the wider public from the disease was low and that hantavirus transmission between humans was uncommon.
From BBC • May 5, 2026
For the cruise ship, there are two possible scenarios: human-to-human transmission or isolated infections before people boarded, for example if they took a trip together.
From Barron's • May 4, 2026
They heated the material to sixty-five degrees—hot enough to warp most proteins—then added acids to curdle the proteins, and the transmission of genes was still unaltered.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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