transmission
1. (Science: microbiology, physiology) A passage or transfer, as of a disease from one individual to another or of neutral impulses from one neuron to another.
2. (Science: genetics) The communication of inheritable qualities from parent to offspring
An incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted.
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