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transmit
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To send data over a communications line. See transfer.


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This mechanism would favor selection of some viruses, such as Norwalk virus, over other viruses that are unable to bind to the oyster and would not be transmittable by this intermediary host.
``Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America,'' which aired Tuesday night, dramatized an outbreak of the H5N1 avian flu virus from its origins in a Hong Kong market to a pandemic virus that became easily transmittable among humans and spread rapidly around the world, killing several hundred million people.
While there's plenty of debate about whether the H5N1 virus strain will become transmittable from human to human, or even spread to the United States, the companies are playing it sale--and with good reason.
 
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