transmitted

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The World Health Organization said it is possible there was human-to-human transmission of hantavirus on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, a rare way the virus typically transmitted by rodents can spread.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

But there is one strain of hantavirus — known as the Andes virus — that can be transmitted from human to human, and has been transmitted in Thailand and Argentina.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

If a new world hantavirus is being transmitted between humans on this ship, that would be unprecedented, to my knowledge.

From Barron's • May 4, 2026

The pressure is transmitted through the vertebral venous plexus, a network of veins linking the abdomen to the spinal cavity, which leads to slight brain movement.

From Science Daily • May 1, 2026

Aureliano Segundo recognized him at once, because that hereditary memory had been transmitted from generation to generation and had come to him through the memory of his grandfather.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez