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How To Use transmissible In A Sentence

• Mutations could cause the viruses to be more transmissible between humans.
• Sheep are susceptible to their own brain wasting disease called scrapie, but this disease has never been shown to be transmissible to humans.
• Prion diseases, also known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, primarily damage the brain. The Highlight HEALTH Network
• The disease is so devastating because, once it is there, it is almost always present in the environment, and easily transmissible through contact with infected water.
• But to have such an epidemic you need more than an easily transmissible bug.
• Prions are special proteins believed to be the infectious agents responsible for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, a group of rare, fatal disorders that slowly destroy the brain and nervous system.
• Now, abstracting from the qualification of an actual dominium, which is not alleged, I have great doubts whether a mere convicium is necessarily transmitted from one object to another, through the relation of a dominium subsisting between them; and if not necessarily transmissible, we must see the principle of its actual transmission here; and that has not yet been pointed out. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character
• Cancer survivors express anxiety that chemotherapy exposure may lead to transmissible genetic damage.
• The specter of such a virus becoming easily transmissible among humans truly frightens public health officials.
• Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies such as mad cow disease and its human counterpart, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, are not caused by bacteria or viruses.