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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Example Sentences

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

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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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.”

From Salon

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

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Los Angeles Times