transmissible

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The hepatitis B virus is highly transmissible and many people may not know they have it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

Egg prices already are going up due to the accelerating spread of H5N1, a highly transmissible and fatal strain of avian influenza.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2024

This process could generate a new variant that possesses the worst features of both—a virus that is transmissible from person-to-person like the seasonal flu, and severe, like those two concerning cases of D1.1.

From Slate • Dec. 31, 2024

"However, our study doesn't suggest that such evolution has occurred or that the current H5N1 virus with only this mutation would be transmissible between humans."

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2024

Isocrates, also a Greek physician and contemporary of Hippocrates, was the first to write of tuberculosis as a disease transmissible through contagion.

From Nurses' Papers on Tuberculosis : read before the Nurses' Study Circle of the Dispensary Department, Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium by Various