An heir, in the Roman sense of the term, was a universal successor; that is, he took over the rights and duties of the deceased (insofar as they were transmissible at all) as a whole.
Scrapie does not appear to be transmissible to humans.
Speaking at a Royal Society conference on bird flu, Kawaoka and Fouchier claimed their work highlighted how easily bird flu could mutate into a form that would potentially be transmissible among humans.
This effect can also be transmissible between generations [ 20].
Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) may be transmissible by blood.
Prion diseases are considered to be transmissible.
Tularemia is a classical zoonosis caused by the facultative intracellular bacterium Francisella tularensis; it is transmissible to humans at infectious doses as low as 10 50 bacteria when inhaled in aerosols or by inoculation of the skin.
It is currently unknown whether chronic wasting disease (CWD), a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy of cervids, is transmissible to humans.
A few sheep conditions are transmissible to humans.
This trait is transmissible via microbiota transplantation.
VZV is transmissible by respiratory routes (Arvin 1996; CDC 2005).
