transmitted

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People become infected with the illness by consuming food or water that has been contaminated with the parasite — the infection is not transmitted from person to person.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2026

In such a scheme, Neanderthal DNA can be transmitted widely through the ordinary chromosomes, while the Neanderthal X chromosome circulates less easily, since a father passes it on only to his daughters.

From Science Daily • Jul. 7, 2026

Ebola is transmitted through contact with infected bodily fluids, including blood, urine, vomit, semen and breast milk.

From BBC • Jun. 17, 2026

He later traveled to China and was given a secure phone through which he transmitted several documents containing classified information, according to trial testimony.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

No matter where you were on the ship, you felt the power of the Olympic's twenty-nine boilers transmitted upward through the strakes of the hull.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson