transmissible
- s (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
- s occurring among members of a family usually by heredity
- s inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent
transmissible tradition
- That alone shows just how transmissible this new virus is: we're dry kindling, and H1N1 is the match.
- As flus go, that makes H1N1 more transmissible than most on par with the moderate 1957 Asian flu pandemic which makes it particularly important to get a large chunk of the .
- The pandemic viruses of 1957 and 1968, by contrast, were about as transmissible as the 1918 strain but were much weakerin Britain fewer people died from flu in 1968 than in the .