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

Scientists do not believe it can spread easily through casual contact, as seasonal flu can.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2023

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

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

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