transmitted
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Chipotle in 2020 agreed to pay a $25 million fine in connection to the string of illnesses, which included outbreaks of norovirus, a pathogen that can be transmitted by food workers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
People become infected with the illness by consuming food or water that has been contaminated with the parasite — the infection is not transmitted from person to person.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Yet mitochondrial DNA is transmitted only through mothers.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
Ebola is transmitted through contact with infected bodily fluids, including blood, urine, vomit, semen and breast milk.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
Occasionally, the feature transmitted through heredity was not even corporeal: a manner of walking, say, or a way of staring into space, or even a state of mind.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
