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

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 ● Oct. 3, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2023

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