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Indirect transmission

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Indirect transmission
Epidemiology A nonperson-to-person transmission of an agent–eg, parasite from a reservoir to a susceptible host by suspended air particles or by animate–vector or inanimatex–vehicle intermediaries


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ISLAMABAD, June 15, 2009 (Balochistan Times) --New data has allowed a team of University of Georgia researchers to create the first model that takes into account both direct and indirect transmission of the viruses among birds.
Indirect transmission and environmental persistence of infectious prions will complicate efforts to control CWD and perhaps other animal prion diseases.
Further, spread of the disease was no doubt enhanced through indirect transmission that may have included handling food items with contaminated hands and/or muscid flies acting as mechanical vectors.
 
 
 
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