transmissible
Example Sentences
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It requires close contact of less than one meter for 30 minutes, he said, adding that hantavirus is "much less transmissible" than Covid-19 or the flu.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
However, it isn’t as easily transmissible as Covid.
From Barron's ● May 8, 2026
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
Foot-and-mouth disease of cattle is transmissible to man through the milk of infected cattle, but this infection in man is not very common or as a rule very serious.
From Food Poisoning by Edwin Oakes Jordan
