infectiousness
Noun
Meaning
The quality of being infectious.
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Imagine this nightmare scenario: a communicable form of anthrax—a germ with the infectiousness of SARS and the killing power of anthrax—is unleashed through infected air travelers.
The tertiary contagions in South Korea are a warning that the virus may have mutated and the infectiousness of MERS may have become stronger," said Li Chufang, an associate researcher at the Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease.
In case of people who are severely to critically ill or have severe immunocompromise, the infectiousness likely ends within 20 days of the onset of symptoms.
News broke yesterday that a French researcher, supposedly well respected, found that hydroxychloroquine rapidly reduced the infectiousness of coronavirus patients.
“Some of the (early) reporting from China was not clear about the scale, the nature, the infectiousness of this,” he said.