transmissibility
Americannoun
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An emerging potential epidemic demands our attention—and our full resources—when two features start changing for the worse: severity and transmissibility.
From Slate • Dec. 31, 2024
Despite their increased transmissibility, the new mutations don’t appear to result in more severe disease.
From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2024
Results showed that compared to healthy participants who only imagined being sick, those who were actively ill were more likely to conceal their illness regardless of its transmissibility.
From Science Daily • Jan. 29, 2024
We researchers have much more to learn about BA.2.86's capacity to evade antibody protection from prior infection or vaccination, its transmissibility and its ability to cause severe disease.
From Salon • Sep. 14, 2023
In the first place we do not yet know enough about the principles of heredity and the transmissibility of pathological states to enable us to formulate sound legislative proposals on this basis.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Ellis, Havelock
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