transmitted
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Chipotle in 2020 agreed to pay a $25 million fine in connection to the string of illnesses, which included outbreaks of norovirus, a pathogen that can be transmitted by food workers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
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
Ebola is transmitted through contact with infected bodily fluids, including blood, urine, vomit, semen and breast milk.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
It is then transmitted via undersea cables to the onshore station, and fed into the grid.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
They are transmitted, like mitochondria, from generation to generation of eggs.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
