OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 51658

superspreader

/ˈs(j)uːpəˌspɹɛdə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
supercontagiador • supercontagiadora • supervector
A person infected with a pathogen who is responsible for spreading it to many other people.
Another SARS superspreader took the invader by the hand to Singapore's 1,200-bed Tan Tock Seng Hospital. Crowded emergency departments and highly mobile medical staff did the honor…
In the SARS [severe acute respiratory syndrome] outbreak, New York forcibly quarantined a man suspected of having the disease after he refused to isolate himself. That's a real bre…
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