transmissible

Example Sentences

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But the 18-year-old said she and her friends had become less worried, as they now know "meningitis is not very transmissible".

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

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

Asparagus, Dipsacus; and De Vries has shown that the peculiarity is not only transmissible by seed, but may be more or less fixed by appropriate culture.

From Disease in Plants by Ward, H. Marshall