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What is a superspreader?

What is a superspreader? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (medicine) A patient responsible for spreading an infection to many other people.
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That's a real breach of liberty, but suppose he had been an irresponsible superspreader like Typhoid Mary and caused the disease to spin out of control?
Perhaps the most infamous superspreader in history was Mary Mallon, aka Typhoid Mary.
He apparently was a superspreader and helped to ignite the outbreak that is raging there.
One superspreader may have been a 64-year-old doctor in China who traveled to Hong Kong in late February.
Public health officials documented a total of seven people directly infected by the doctor, making him a superspreader.
Another SARS superspreader took the invader by the hand to Singapore's 1200-bed Tan Tock Seng Hospital.

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