communicability

Example Sentences

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What we first notice in Koh and Tines is their extraordinary communicability.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2022

The second wave, which exploded across the country in April and May, exposed both the Delta variant’s increased communicability and India’s inability to cope.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2021

The ostensible goal of these experiments—in which researchers manipulate already-dangerous pathogens to create or increase communicability among humans—is to develop tools to monitor the natural emergence of pandemic strains.

From Slate • Apr. 11, 2014

“What about the communicability of the human spirit?”

From BusinessWeek • Aug. 23, 2011

There is dispute as to the communicability of the plague from man to man by contact with fomites, but it is practically certain the disease can be thus transmitted.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin