vehicle-borne transmission

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   indirect transmission of an infectious agent that occurs when a vehicle (or fomite) touches a person's body or is ingested

   Broaderindirect transmission

Questions about vehicle-borne transmission

What does vehicle-borne transmission mean?

vehicle-borne transmission means "indirect transmission of an infectious agent that occurs when a vehicle (or fomite) touches a person's body or is ingested".

Is vehicle-borne transmission a common word?

vehicle-borne transmission is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.