Ebola mediums

S. M. Fitzgerald Cyberiot at ix.netcom.com
Fri May 12 23:53:24 EST 1995


>
>Debbie Gaw <dgaw at tiac.net> wrote:

>
>You'll note that ebola _is_ transmitted by casual person-to-person
>contact and nosocomial transmission (whatever that is) in addition to
>blood, vomit, and syringes.

Debbie et al.:

Courtesy of Random House Webster's:

>nos-o-co-mi-al (nos uh koh'mee uhl)  adj. 
                  1.  (of infections) contracted in a hospital.
             [1850-55; < NL nosocomi (um) hospital (< LGk 
             nosokomeîon = Gk noso- NOSO - + kom- (base with 
             sense " care, attendance, " as in gerokómos caring 
             for the old) + -eion suffix of location) + - AL 1]

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