transmitted

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A number of cases have been seen in Scotland in the past, involving a different type of hantavirus which can only be transmitted from rodents.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

The variant of the hantavirus suspected in both outbreaks is transmitted through the droppings, saliva and urine of the Andean mouse.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

Unlike other infectious respiratory illnesses, hantavirus “infects cells very deep in the lungs, so it’s not as easily transmitted then when someone is speaking or coughing,” Iovine said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

It is the only form of the disease carried by rodents that can be transmitted between humans.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

How could heat-killed bacterial debris—no more than a lukewarm soup of microbial chemicals—have transmitted a genetic trait to a live bacterium by mere contact?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee