The mite passes from person to person by close contact.
He knew only that Ebola was spread by close contact with body fluids.
Meningitis, which causes the brain to swell, is spread by close contact like sharing utensils or water bottles.
For every 100,000 people vaccinated for the first time, the study found, vaccinia spread by close contact to two to six others who had not been vaccinated.
The bacteria is spread from person to person by close contact with a person carrying the bacteria, such as coughing, kissing and sneezing.
The bacteria can spread from person to person, and between animals and humans, by close contact such as touching," she said.
Tularemia, also known as rabbit fever or deer fly fever, is usually acquired through tick or insect bites or by close contact with infected animals, particularly rabbits and muskrats.
The disease is spread by close contact with discharges from the nose or throat of an infected person, which can happen from living in the same household or sexual contact, including kissing, the department said.
While Ebola is not transmitted through the air like the flu, it does spread by close contact with bodily fluids such as blood, saliva and sweat — even something as innocent as a tainted tear.
Blood that drains from the surface of the skin has been cooled by close contact with the external environment, and it can return to the cetacean's heart via two different routes.
Gina Samaan, a field epidemiologist for the World Health Organization in Kubu Sembilang investigating the recent cluster, said that the number of deaths had raised eyebrows but that so far the outbreak was similar to others in Indonesia that were caused by close contact with infected poultry.
