The word "transmissible" is correct and commonly used in written English
It means capable of being passed from one person or organism to another, typically through direct or indirect contact. You can use it in various contexts, such as discussing diseases, infections, or traits. For example: - "The virus is highly transmissible and has been spreading quickly among the population." - "HIV is a transmissible disease that can be transmitted through unprotected sexual contact or contaminated blood." - "The researchers are studying the genetic basis of transmissible traits among certain animal species." - "Some mental health conditions, such as depression, can be transmissible through familial genetics."
Virologists, such as Dr Ball at Nottingham, worry that increasing human-to-human transmission is giving Ebola the opportunity to become more transmissible.
"Some major evolutionary changes would be required to make it more transmissible; not just tweaking around the edges but big changes in the way it behaves.
The scientists said the virus could be slightly different – maybe more transmissible in Oman – or the camels might have been kept in circumstances that made it less likely to spread in the Canaries.
"Because there are fewer strains, they are less replicative and transmissible".
Last year two groups of scientists, one led by Dr Fouchier, described specific mutations that might make H5N1 transmissible from human to human.
(This also created transmissible strains, albeit less virulent ones).
Thus the infection spreads and, eventually, kills by affecting critical brain functions.BSE has proved, in relatively rare cases, to be transmissible to people who have eaten the meat of infected cattle.
Along with scrapie in sheep and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, it is a member of a class of strange degenerative diseases of the brain known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, or TSEs.
So even if somebody does catch it, the chances are that it will not be passed on.What is worrying is what might happen if H5N1 became transmissible between humans, rather than merely, on occasion, to them.
He was trying to make the slippery problem of the evolution of human culture as tractable as that of biological evolution, and he thought that if cultural information could somehow be divided into separately transmissible elements, in the way that biologically heritable information is divided into genes, the rest might follow.
But the key idea behind professionalisation, argues Mr Menand, is that "the knowledge and skills needed for a particular specialisation are transmissible but not transferable".
