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- noun medicine A
patient responsible for spreading aninfection to many other people.
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Another approach is to look at the spread of disease through a population by drawing on the parallels between big banks, and the epidemiological concept of a "superspreader" - an individual who, through their contact with others, is responsible for the spread of an infection.
BBC News - Home 2011
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Gull Lake and Lake Minnetonka, adding them to the list of "superspreader"
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One so-called "superspreader" who failed to wash his or her hands, and who traveled about the hospital treating many patients, could greatly raise the nosocomial infection rate, they calculated.
Reuters: Top News 2009
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'superspreader' individuals triggering stronger epidemic events
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Marianne De Paepe et al. 2010
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"superspreader" dogs, transmitting the disease over large distances.
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"superspreader" dogs, transmitting the disease over large distances.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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Now they knew that any child with a cold had the potential to be a superspreader of the resistant bug, and that was a daunting finding, because in the long history of medical effort, no one had ever prevented the common cold.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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Now they knew that any child with a cold had the potential to be a superspreader of the resistant bug, and that was a daunting finding, because in the long history of medical effort, no one had ever prevented the common cold.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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Now they knew that any child with a cold had the potential to be a superspreader of the resistant bug, and that was a daunting finding, because in the long history of medical effort, no one had ever prevented the common cold.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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SARS broke out in Hong Kong not because the first victim was a superspreader but because a doctor mistakenly hooked him up to an aspirator–ventilating SARS-infected breath into the hospital air.
Influentials On The Web Are People With The Power To Link - Publishing 2.0 2008
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