transmitted
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Ebola, which is transmitted through contact with bodily fluids and causes haemorrhagic fever, has killed more than 15,000 people in Africa in the last 50 years.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
West Nile virus survives in nature in several types of birds and is transmitted to humans by the bites of mosquitoes that feed on infected birds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
"The message transmitted by influencers is 'Look! Touch the shark, nothing will happen to you,'" he says.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
"Our research shows that this assumption may not always hold true. Other treponemal diseases may also have been transmitted from mother to child."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
After a long mystical sleep in which the tools of scientific inquiry lay moldering, the Ionian approach, in some cases transmitted through scholars at the Alexandrian Library, was finally rediscovered.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
