The word "transmissibility" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to refer to the ability of a disease to be passed from one person to another. Example sentence: The transmissibility of the virus makes it difficult to contain its spread.
Such experiments will help spot risky new strains, develop better treatments and speed up the response to the first signs of an outbreak.American health officials, also writing in Nature and Science, explained how they would review studies that tried to enhance the transmissibility of H7N9.
A group of scientists could then "custom build" a viral genome, picking genes from different natural viruses for different properties, such as virulence and transmissibility.
But here, too, transmissibility can be reduced dramatically.A first way of doing this is to test pregnant women to see if they have the virus.
At the moment, it is generally agreed that smallpox has the best mixture of transmissibility and deadliness to do the job effectively.
For a sexually transmitted disease, this average has three components: the "transmissibility" of the disease, the average rate that an infected person acquires new and uninfected partners, and the average length of time for which somebody is infectious.Cutting off the hydra's headsThe easiest of these to tackle has been transmissibility.
The capacity and precision of resource surveys have been greatly enhanced by remote sensing, and this has been coupled with the worldwide transmissibility of information.
It is also recognized, however, that vaccine transmissibility can be helpful e.g., in the case of live polio vaccine, which can be spread from vaccinated children to others who have not been vaccinated.
This relatively weak transmissibility makes the standard public-health technique of contact-tracing effective in halting the disease.
Even if terrorists got their hands on the new data, it's not certain they could weaponize the virus: no one knows for certain that the virus's transmissibility and virulence in ferrets means transmissibility and virulence in humans.
The new virus also infects cells from a variety of animals, including monkeys, rabbits and pigs, which could offer further opportunities for the new virus to develop greater transmissibility in people.
But other scientists said increased transmissibility usually depends on changes in at least two of eight genes: one that helps the virus invade cells, and one that helps it copy itself.
