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transmission of infectious diseases ...can be conveyed to the
second child. Many such objects—a handkerchief or a towel, for
example—may convey infection under favourable conditions, and,
when they do so, they are known as fomites. yellow fever
research During most of the 19th century it had been widely held
that yellow fever was spread by fomites—i.e., articles such as
bedding and clothing that had been used by a yellow-fever
patient. As late as 1898, a U.S. official report ascribed the
spread to this cause. Meanwhile, other methods of transmission
had been suggested. In 1881 the Cuban physician and
epidemiologist Carlos Juan... What made you want to look up
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