To prove these guys wrong, we needed to make a virus that is transmissible".
Rift Valley fever, viral infection of animals that is transmissible to humans and causes a febrile illness of short duration.
Health officials and talking heads have lectured us about the nature of the disease: it is transmissible only through bodily fluids, etc.
Nor is it likely to be Ebola, which is transmissible from human to human through direct contact with bodily fluids, but can be stopped by preventing such contact.
A major factor in the spread of antibiotic resistance is transmissible plasmids, which carry the genes for the drug-inactivating enzymes from one bacterial species to another.
Despite the evident failure of the system to prevent the case in Washington, Mr. Stokes said that consumers should have confidence in the food supply because there is no evidence that the disease is transmissible through muscle meat.
The then agriculture minister John Gummer fed his four-year-old daughter Cordelia a hamburger on primetime television in May 1990 and various tame scientific committees met to endorse the claim that "there is no evidence that the bovine disease is transmissible to humans".
In a morbidly fascinating chapter titled "Blood," Peterson describes the scientific work and circumstantial evidence suggesting that both AIDS and Ebola are zoonotic diseases (that is, transmissible to us from animals), which have leaped from ape populations to humans on several occasions, most likely during the butchery and consumption of hominoid bushmeat.
When the experts say H.I.V. is transmissible through the exchange of body fluids, does that include saliva? A. Saliva by itself is not known to spread H.I.V., but the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases urges caution when kissing anyway.
It is currently unknown whether chronic wasting disease (CWD), a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy of cervids, is transmissible to humans.
Last year, scientists in Australia released research suggesting that a facial cancer that has decimated the wild Tasmanian devil population is transmissible (Science, 18 February 2005).
