casual contact

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noun

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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How to use casual contact in a sentence

Additionally, humans cannot spread it to each other through casual contact.
10 Shocking Facts About Mad Cow Disease||April 25, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Instead, the concerns reflect the fact that unlike measles or diphtheria or rubella, HPV is not spread by casual contact.
HPV Vaccine's Tricky Ethics|Sharon Begley|September 14, 2011|DAILY BEAST
He desired to eliminate Myra Bland and all that pertained to her from even casual contact with him.
The Hidden Places|Bertrand W. Sinclair
Those with whom I come in casual contact appear to me now in a vague, diffused light like the atmosphere of some other world.
Apologia Diffidentis|W. Compton Leith

Whenever he met her, even if it were only a brief, casual contact, for hours afterward he could not drive her out of his mind.
Poor Man's Rock|Bertrand W. Sinclair
In our casual contact with aliens, however, it is the offensive rather than the pleasing traits that impress us.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology|Robert E. Park