transmitted
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People become infected with the illness by consuming food or water that has been contaminated — the infection is not transmitted from person to person.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Now information can be transmitted to anywhere on the globe at close to the speed of light.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
In such a scheme, Neanderthal DNA can be transmitted widely through the ordinary chromosomes, while the Neanderthal X chromosome circulates less easily, since a father passes it on only to his daughters.
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
In radar astronomy, radio waves are transmitted by a telescope on Earth, strike, say, that hemisphere of Venus that happens to be facing the Earth, and bounce back.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
