fomites in English
noun
1
objects or materials that are likely to carry infection, such as clothes, utensils, and furniture.
Transmission by virus-contaminated hands or fomites is less likely.
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1. Transmission occurs by direct contact, or via respiratory aerosol droplets, or fomites.
2. And it definitively proved that it wasn't this magic dust called fomites in your clothes that caused yellow fever.