casual contact

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.

Example Sentences

But, perhaps most notable, only about half of the 30,000 children infected with hepatitis B got it from their mothers; the other half contracted it through casual contact, likely from other household contacts.

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Moral dictates, of course, don’t protect infants from hepatitis B. As pediatrician Dr. Paul Offit told the New York Times last week, unvaccinated babies can get the virus — even if their mothers aren’t infected — “from relatively casual contact with people who had chronic hepatitis B.”

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It can also be spread through close physical contact with an infectious person; casual contact does not spread the virus.

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The illness is not spread through casual contact, but through activities that involve exposure to saliva or respiratory or throat secretions — kissing, for example, or sharing food and drinks or cigarettes.

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Since then, I have had only casual contact with Smith, who served as SMC’s spokesman for many years.

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