casual contact

American  

noun

1. the level of contact at which a person is not subject to contracting a communicable disease from another, especially nonsexual contact with a person infected with a venereal disease.

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casual contact

"We're not talking about casual contact from very far away from one another," she said, but "really physical contact".

From BBC ● May 6, 2026

They find that others still prefer to keep their distance, despite the fact that the disease isn’t spread through casual contact and 95% of people are naturally immune.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025

Officials aren’t seeing spread from activities such as changing clothes in a dressing room, casual contact at a crowded festival or from gym equipment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2022

Morrison, who had been deemed a casual contact after attending an event last week along with a COVID-infected person, said he has been cleared to fly interstate to Queensland after negative test results.

From Reuters ● Dec. 15, 2021

But Renato, a doctor himself, knows that Hansen’s disease is marginally contagious and cannot be spread through casual contact.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly