Example Sentences
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Transmitted through the saliva of infected animals, rabies is “almost always fatal” if it isn’t treated before symptoms appear, Fresno County officials warned.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2024
Transmitted mainly through saliva, the virus can lead to infectious mononucleosis, or “kissing disease,” in newly infected teens and young adults.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 14, 2022
The Johns Hopkins Center for Point-of-Care Technologies Research for Sexually Transmitted Diseases has distributed roughly 23,000 at-home STD kits since 2004, said Charlotte Gaydos, a principal investigator with the center.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 23, 2022
Transmitted by bats and great apes, this virus can cause death in 70–90 percent of the infected within two weeks.
From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013
Transmitted for hundreds of years by trained schools of reciters, it was during a synod that occurred in the first quarter of the first century before Christ that, finally, they were written.
From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Saltus, Edgar
