transmitted
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Researchers are increasingly examining how diseases transmitted by vectors may have restricted where canine populations could survive and expand.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
A total eclipse is one of the few things that resist being fully transmitted on a screen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
People become infected with the illness by consuming food or water that has been contaminated — the infection is not transmitted from person to person.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Dengue is a viral fever caused by the dengue virus, which is transmitted to humans through the bite of infected Aedes mosquitoes.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
This adapted feature would then be transmitted to the finch’s offspring by instruction, and their beaks would harden as well, having been pre-adapted to the harder seeds by their parents.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
