Directions: Check your understanding of Pathology by answers must begin with lower case letters. s a disease-producing microorganism such as a virus. (two words) is any disease transmitted from one person to another either directly or by indirect contact with contaminated objects. The spread of a disease through contact with blood or other body fluids contaminated with blood is transmission. The type of transmission that occurs through contact with germs floating in the air is transmission. Eating contaminated food or drinking contaminated water can cause borne and waterborne transmission. The spread of a disease due to the bite of a vector (insect or animal) capable of transmitting that disease is called - borne transmission. SUBMIT 6