Sentence examples for were transmissible to from inspiring English sources

We considered that if CWD were transmissible to humans, then it might be manifested with different signs and symptoms than typical sporadic CJD, resulting in misdiagnosis or classification under a different ICD code.

Virus was transmissible to seronegative Sprague-Dawley rats, but transmission was spotty and magnitude and duration of infection were not robust.

Scrapie does not appear to be transmissible to humans.

The agent used for immunization should not be transmissible to susceptible contacts of the person being vaccinated.

Rift Valley fever, viral infection of animals that is transmissible to humans and causes a febrile illness of short duration.

"Isolation" is the epidemiological term for people (and animals) confined with signs and symptoms of a communicable disease that are transmissible to others.

Cowpox (vaccinia) and pseudocowpox (paravaccinia), localized on the udder and teats of cows, are transmissible to human beings by skin contact.

The virus has also been found in another mosquito, Aedes japonicus, and has been shown in tests to be transmissible to the type of salt-water wetland mosquitoes that abound in Long Island coastal areas.

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.

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.