Fomite

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What Wikipedia says

A fomite () or fomes () is any inanimate object that, when contaminated with or exposed to infectious agents (such as pathogenic bacteria, viruses or fungi), can transfer disease to a new host.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Fomite”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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