superspreading
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]superspreading (uncountable)
- (medicine, epidemiology) The spreading of an infection to many other people from a single individual.
- 2005 November 17, J. O. Llloyd-Smith et al., “Superspreading and the effect of individual variation on disease emergence”, in Nature, volume 438, , pages 355–359:
- Our findings indicate that superspreading is a normal feature of disease spread […]
- 2020 June 2, Dillon C. Adam, Benjamin J. Cowling, “Just Stop the Superspreading”, in New York Times[1]:
- We found that superspreading has overwhelmingly contributed to the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the city overall. Of the 349 local cases we identified — the remaining 689 cases were imported from other territories — 196 were linked to just six superspreading events.
- Synonym of superwetting