vehicle-borne transmission
- noun
- Specialized
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transmisión vehicular
- Salmonella outbreaks are often linked to vehicle-borne transmission through contaminated food or water.
Examples
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Proper sterilization of medical equipment helps prevent vehicle-borne transmission of infections in hospitals.
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Health professionals educate the public about the risks of vehicle-borne transmission during disease outbreaks.
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The outbreak was caused by vehicle-borne transmission of the virus.
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Many diseases can spread through vehicle-borne transmission methods.
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Health professionals educate the public about the risks of vehicle-borne transmission during disease outbreaks.
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Proper sterilization of medical equipment helps prevent vehicle-borne transmission of infections in hospitals.
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Salmonella outbreaks are often linked to vehicle-borne transmission through contaminated food or water.
Surface Forms
Morphology
vehicle-borne + transmission
The element 'transmission' clearly signals 'passing an infection', and 'vehicle-borne' can be parsed as 'borne/carried by a vehicle/carrier', so a learner who knows the words can form the general idea of infection carried by something. However, the technical epidemiological sense of 'vehicle' (any inanimate carrier such as food, water, or fomites) is specialized and may be misinterpreted as a literal motor vehicle by a B1 learner, so the meaning is not fully predictable without domain knowledge.
Etymology
Vehicle-borne transmission uses the image of a vehicle carrying germs like a bus carries people. If you touch or eat that vehicle, the germs can 'infect' you, so the phrase means getting sick when something 'contaminated' brings the germs to you.
