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

Every time a bird flu virus infects a person, concerns grow that it could change, becoming more transmissible or more deadly.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2025

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

University of Central Florida researchers helmed a study that found Florida panthers are not particularly susceptible to a potentially transmissible disease that causes cognitive decline leading to death in their prey.

From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2024

But that which is communicable and transmissible is the language whereby genius is formulated and expressed, and failing which it must e'en remain dumb and impotent.

From Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music by Gounod, Charles