blood-borne
adjective
: carried or transmitted by the blood
a blood-borne disease
blood-borne pathogens
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And it was not established that HIV was blood-borne until the first deaths of haemophiliacs in 1982.
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The Week Uk, theweek, 10 Feb. 2024
In most cases, the story ends there, with the person at the receiving end of spillover never infecting anyone else, often because the virus was initially blood-borne and had never mutated into an easily spreadable respiratory disease.
—Larry Brilliant, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022
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The Week Uk, theweek, 10 Feb. 2024
In most cases, the story ends there, with the person at the receiving end of spillover never infecting anyone else, often because the virus was initially blood-borne and had never mutated into an easily spreadable respiratory disease.
—Larry Brilliant, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022
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blood-borne
adjective
: carried or transmitted by the blood
a blood-borne disease
blood-borne pathogens
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